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Brand review · 3 min readSpeciality Coffee coffee review
What Speciality Coffee sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Speciality Coffee sells 16 coffees in the UK, and like every brand the range hides a wide spread once you price it by the cup instead of by the bag. Here is what it contains and what it actually costs to drink.
Short answer
A light roast with real acidity, best drunk black.
- Tastes
- Bright and floral, noticeably acidic
- Strength
- Mild
- Best for
- Filter and pour-over
- Valuecup price vs the format median
- 3/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 3/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 1/5
Cheapest cup£0.58across 16 products
Range spread1.8×£0.58 to £1.04 a cup
Mostly roastedLightfloral, citrus
Buy it ifyou finish a 1kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifyou are buying on price alone
What kind of roaster this is
Speciality Coffee sells coffee in the UK, and we track 16 of their coffees, in 1kg.
Only 19% of what we can classify from Speciality Coffee is blended, so this is a range built on named origins. That means the list moves. A coffee you like now may be gone in a few months, which is either the appeal or the problem depending on how you shop. The buying reaches 11 countries across the range, which is a wide book for a brand this size. The roasting spans 4 of our five levels, so there is a genuine choice to make inside the range rather than one house style applied to everything. Every bag we list is a kilo or more, which is what pushes the per-cup figure down and also what makes this a bad fit if you drink slowly, since coffee is past its best four to six weeks after roasting.
Formats and origins
What Speciality Coffee sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Speciality Coffee coffee costs
The range runs from 58p to £1.04 a cup across 16 products. That is a 1.8× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Speciality Coffee expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Brazil: Andrea Costa Red Catuai Natural in the 1kg, and the dearest is Guatemala: Francisco Morales La Esperanza Natural in the 1kg.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil: Andrea Costa Red Catuai Natural | — | 1kg | £0.58 | £32.00 |
| Tanzania: Ishando AB | — | 1kg | £0.65 | £36.00 |
| Casa: Our Signature Espresso | — | 1kg | £0.65 | £36.00 |
| El Molinito Washed | — | 1kg | £0.65 | £36.00 |
| Christmas | — | 1kg | £0.70 | £39.00 |
| Colombia: Matambo Washed | — | 1kg | £0.70 | £39.00 |
| Guatemala: Francisco Morales La Esperanza Washed | — | 1kg | £0.70 | £39.00 |
| Brazil: Patricia Coelho Anaerobic | — | 1kg | £0.72 | £40.00 |
| Mexico: Nuu Davii | — | 1kg | £0.77 | £43.00 |
| Half-Caff Blend | — | 1kg | £0.79 | £44.00 |
| Decaf Colombia: La Serrania | — | 1kg | £0.79 | £44.00 |
| Burundi: Bayevi Washed | — | 1kg | £0.83 | £46.00 |
Bags themselves run £32.00 to £58.00. Ignore that column. A bigger bag costs more and almost always costs less per cup, which is the only number that follows you home.
The one to buy
Brazil: Andrea Costa Red Catuai Natural is the cheapest thing Speciality Coffee sells, at 58p a cup. We cannot yet set that against a market average, because the range is not yet classified by format, so treat it as the floor of the range rather than a verdict on value.
How Speciality Coffee tastes
We have not tasted Speciality Coffee, so we are not going to invent a tasting note. A flavour score we did not earn would be worth less than none, and this section would be the easiest place on the site to quietly make one up. What we can show you is measured: where every coffee in the range sits on our own five-point roast scale, and which origins go into it. Roast is the strongest single predictor of whether a cup arrives bright and fruity or dark and chocolatey, so it is the closest honest answer to what this brand is like to drink.
How Speciality Coffee roasts
Every coffee standardised onto our own five-point scale rather than the roaster's. Read these as tendencies: origin, process and how you brew all move the cup.
Who it suits
- People who want to taste the difference between one origin and the next, and do not mind that their favourite may be gone by spring.
- Households getting through real volume. The kilo bags are the whole value case, and they only work if you drink them fresh.
- People who want to choose their own roast rather than take the roaster's word for it, since the range covers 4 of our five levels.
Is it good value?
Our test is simple, and it is the same one we apply to everything: cost per cup against the median for the same format. Speciality Coffee lands around the middle. It is not the cheapest way to a cup of coffee, and the money above the median buys convenience and consistency rather than a smaller bill. Whether that is a fair trade is genuinely your call, not ours.
Speciality Coffee products we track
Cheapest per cup first, with live prices.
Prices are the last we fetched and can move. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. It never changes the order, which is always cheapest per cup first.
What else to consider
No brand is worth buying without knowing what sits next to it on price. These are the closest whole bean coffees we track to Speciality Coffee, and the comparison hubs will put all of them on the same per-cup basis if you want to go wider.
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