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Brand review · 3 min readScott&Co. coffee review
What Scott&Co. sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Scott&Co. sells 8 coffees in the UK and the cheapest comes out at 54p a cup, which is less than most of the whole bean coffee we track. Cheap coffee is easy to find and hard to trust, so the useful question is not whether it is cheap. It is what the range actually contains, and whether the bag doing the heavy lifting is the one you would want.
Short answer
A middle-of-the-road medium roast, black or white, for below the going rate.
Cheaper than 73% of the whole bean coffee we track
- Tastes
- Balanced, caramel and chocolate
- Strength
- Medium
- Best for
- Everyday coffee, black or white
- Valuecup price vs the format median
- 3/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 5/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 5/5
Cheapest cup£0.54across 8 products
Against the market−14%vs the whole bean median
Two cups a day£7.55a week, £1.27 less than typical
Mostly roastedMediumcaramel, balanced
Buy it ifyou want the same cup every time
Skip it ifKaphi Beans at 54p would do
Scott&Co. products we track
Cheapest per cup first, with live prices.
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What kind of roaster this is
Scott&Co. sells whole bean and ground in the UK, and we track 8 of their coffees, in 500g.
100% of the Scott&Co. range we can classify is blended. Blending has a bad name it does not deserve; it is how a roaster keeps a coffee tasting like itself when the harvest behind it changes, and it is the reason your regular bag is still your regular bag in January. The buying reaches 7 countries across the range, which is a wide book for a brand this size. The roasting spans 3 of our five levels, so there is a genuine choice to make inside the range rather than one house style applied to everything. Nothing here comes in a kilo bag. That keeps the coffee fresher in your cupboard and costs you the bulk discount, which is the trade you are making whether or not anyone points it out.
Formats and origins
What Scott&Co. sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Scott&Co. coffee costs
Everything Scott&Co. sells lands at the same 54p a cup, across eight products. That makes the choice about roast and origin rather than money.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monsoon Malabar | whole bean | 500g | £0.54 | £29.98 |
| Costa Rican | whole bean | 500g | £0.54 | £29.98 |
| Sumatra Mandheling | whole bean | 500g | £0.54 | £29.98 |
| Kenyan AA | ground | 500g | £0.54 | £29.98 |
| Costa Rican | ground | 500g | £0.54 | £29.98 |
| Kenyan AA | whole bean | 500g | £0.54 | £29.98 |
| Brazilian Santos | whole bean | 500g | £0.54 | £29.98 |
| Colombian Excelso | whole bean | 500g | £0.54 | £29.98 |
The one to buy
If you buy one thing from Scott&Co., buy Kenyan AA. At 54p a cup it comes in around 24% under the median for ground coffee, and that is measured against every brand in our catalogue rather than against Scott&Co.'s own list prices. Nothing else in the range gets close on that test.
What that costs over a year
How much coffee do you drink?
- Scott&Co.£0.54 per cup£394
- Typical whole bean£0.63 per cup, our median£460
At 2 cups a day, Scott&Co. costs £66 less a year than the typical whole bean coffee we track. That is the same coffee habit, bought better.
How Scott&Co. tastes
We have not tasted Scott&Co., 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 Scott&Co. 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 found something they like and want it to taste the same next year, which is what a blend is for.
- Slow drinkers, and anyone who would rather buy little and often than watch a kilo go stale.
- People who want to choose their own roast rather than take the roaster's word for it, since the range covers 3 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. Scott&Co. clears it comfortably on at least one product, which more brands fail than pass. Worth knowing that the saving is concentrated in the larger bags rather than spread evenly, so buying the small size gives most of it back.
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 Scott&Co., and the comparison hubs will put all of them on the same per-cup basis if you want to go wider.
Coffees priced like Scott&Co.
The closest whole bean coffees on price per cup, from brands we also track. If one of these is cheaper for the same thing, that is worth knowing before you order.
Compare against the market
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PricesScott&Co. price guideEvery bag priced per cup and per kilo, with the cheapest route to each one.BrandAll Scott&Co. pricesLive prices on all 8 products, cheapest cup first.CompareEvery whole bean coffeeAll 812 of them on one per-cup basis, filterable by roast and origin.ReviewKaphi Beans reviewThe closest brand to Scott&Co. on price, at 54p a cup.OffersToday's best valueEverything currently priced well under the median for its own format.