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Brand review · 3 min readTaylors of Harrogate coffee review
What Taylors of Harrogate sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Taylors of Harrogate sells 8 coffees in the UK and the cheapest comes out at 39p a cup, which is less than most of the ground 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
Easy-drinking coffee with caramel and chocolate about it, and it is cheap.
Cheaper than 96% of the ground coffee we track
- Tastes
- Balanced, caramel and chocolate
- Strength
- Medium
- Best for
- Everyday coffee, black or white
- Valuecup price vs the format median
- 5/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 5/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 5/5
Cheapest cup£0.39across 8 products
Against the market−44%vs the ground median
Two cups a day£5.52a week, £4.37 less than typical
Mostly roastedMediumcaramel, balanced
Buy it ifyou finish a 2kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifyou are chasing a named farm or origin
Taylors of Harrogate products we track
Cheapest per cup first, with live prices.
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What kind of roaster this is
Taylors of Harrogate sells whole bean and ground in the UK, and we track 8 of their coffees, in 2kg, 1.2kg and 200g.
Expect blends here rather than named farms: 100% 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 roasting sits on just 2 of our five levels, so this is a range with a house style rather than a spread to pick from. Bags come in both small and kilo sizes, and the gap between them per kilo is usually the largest saving available anywhere on this page. Brazil turns up in 63% of the range, so it is fair to call that the backbone of what they buy. Decaf is 38% of the range, which is unusually well served; most brands treat it as an afterthought.
Formats and origins
What Taylors of Harrogate sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Taylors of Harrogate coffee costs
The range runs from 31p to 71p a cup across eight products. That is a 2.3× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Taylors of Harrogate expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Decaffé in the 2kg, and the dearest is Decaffé in the 200g.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Decaffé | whole bean | 2kg | £0.31 | £17.20 |
| Hot Lava Java | ground | 1.2kg | £0.39 | £21.89 |
| Hot Lava Java | whole bean | 1.2kg | £0.40 | £22.30 |
| Lazy Sunday | ground | 1.2kg | £0.41 | £22.50 |
| After Dark | ground | 1.2kg | £0.42 | £23.25 |
| Lazy Sunday | ground | 1.2kg | £0.42 | £23.31 |
| Decaffe | ground | 1.2kg | £0.45 | £24.73 |
| Decaffé | ground | 200g | £0.71 | £39.35 |
Bags themselves run £7.87 to £34.39. 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
If you buy one thing from Taylors of Harrogate, buy Decaffé. At 31p a cup it comes in around 51% under the median for whole bean coffee, and that is measured against every brand in our catalogue rather than against Taylors of Harrogate'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?
- Taylors of Harrogate£0.39 per cup£288
- Typical ground£0.71 per cup, our median£516
At 2 cups a day, Taylors of Harrogate costs £228 less a year than the typical ground coffee we track. That is the same coffee habit, bought better.
How Taylors of Harrogate tastes
We have not tasted Taylors of Harrogate, 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 Taylors of Harrogate 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.
- Anyone whose real comparison is supermarket own-brand, judged per cup rather than by the label.
- People who already know they like a medium roast, because that is essentially all there is here.
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. Taylors of Harrogate 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 ground coffees we track to Taylors of Harrogate, and the comparison hubs will put all of them on the same per-cup basis if you want to go wider.
Coffees priced like Taylors of Harrogate
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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