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Brand review · 3 min readSquare Mile Coffee Roasters coffee review
What Square Mile Coffee Roasters sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Square Mile Coffee Roasters asks 82p a cup at its cheapest, which is more than most ground coffee we list. Plenty of brands charge that and are worth it. The question is what you get for the difference, so here is the range, what it costs against everything else, and where we would put the money.
Short answer
Delicate and fruit-forward rather than strong, at the going rate.
Cheaper than 30% of the ground coffee we track
- Tastes
- Bright and floral, noticeably acidic
- Strength
- Mild
- Best for
- Filter and pour-over
- Valuecup price vs the format median
- 2/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 4/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 2/5
Cheapest cup£0.82across 13 products
Against the market+17%vs the ground median
Two cups a day£11.53a week at its cheapest
Mostly roastedLightfloral, citrus
Buy it ifyou finish a 2kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifCoaltown at 81p would do
What kind of roaster this is
Square Mile Coffee Roasters sells whole bean and ground in the UK, and we track 13 of their coffees, in 2kg and 1kg.
Expect blends here rather than named farms: 92% of the classified range is blended. The trade is a familiar one. You give up the story on the label and you get a cup that does not drift between orders. 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. 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. Decaf is 15% of the range, which is unusually well served; most brands treat it as an afterthought.
Formats and origins
What Square Mile Coffee Roasters sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Square Mile Coffee Roasters coffee costs
The range runs from 71p to £1.31 a cup across 13 products. That is a 1.9× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Square Mile Coffee Roasters expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Red Brick in the 2kg, and the dearest is Lalesa Ephtah in the 1kg.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red Brick | — | 2kg | £0.71 | £39.38 |
| Choc Ice | — | 1kg | £0.77 | £43.00 |
| The Filter Blend | ground | 1kg | £0.82 | £45.75 |
| Decaf Espresso | — | 1kg | £0.82 | £45.75 |
| Decaf Filter | ground | 1kg | £0.82 | £45.75 |
| Aquiares | — | 1kg | £0.84 | £46.75 |
| Half Caff | ground | 1kg | £0.85 | £47.00 |
| El Recuerdo | ground | 1kg | £0.95 | £53.00 |
| Fruit Punch | ground | 1kg | £1.06 | £59.00 |
| Sweetshop | — | 1kg | £1.08 | £60.00 |
| Mwirua Mitondo | ground | 1kg | £1.22 | £68.00 |
| Mikuba Espresso | — | 1kg | £1.26 | £70.00 |
Bags themselves run £43.00 to £78.75. 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
Red Brick is the cheapest thing Square Mile Coffee Roasters sells, at 71p a cup. We cannot yet set that against a market average for whole bean coffee, so treat it as the floor of the range rather than a verdict on value.
What that costs over a year
How much coffee do you drink?
- Square Mile Coffee Roasters£0.82 per cup£601
- Typical ground£0.71 per cup, our median£516
At 2 cups a day, Square Mile Coffee Roasters costs £85 more a year than the typical ground coffee we track. Worth knowing before you commit to a subscription.
How Square Mile Coffee Roasters tastes
We have not tasted Square Mile Coffee Roasters, 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 Square Mile Coffee Roasters 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.
- 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 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. Square Mile Coffee Roasters 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.
Square Mile Coffee Roasters 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 ground coffees we track to Square Mile Coffee Roasters, and the comparison hubs will put all of them on the same per-cup basis if you want to go wider.
Coffees priced like Square Mile Coffee Roasters
The closest ground 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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