Check today’s price
Brand review · 3 min readMissing Bean coffee review
What Missing Bean sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Missing Bean asks 60p a cup at its cheapest, which is more than most whole bean 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
Easy-drinking coffee with caramel and chocolate about it, priced about where you would expect.
Cheaper than 58% 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
- 4/5
Cheapest cup£0.60across 14 products
Against the market−5%vs the whole bean median
Two cups a day£8.42a week, £0.40 less than typical
Mostly roastedMediumcaramel, balanced
Buy it ifyou finish a 1kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifThe Roasting Shed Limited at 59p would do
What kind of roaster this is
Missing Bean sells whole bean in the UK, and we track 14 of their coffees, in 1kg and 250g.
About 43% of the classified range is blended, so Missing Bean is playing both games: something dependable to reorder, and something changing to be curious about. 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. 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.
Formats and origins
What Missing Bean sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Missing Bean coffee costs
The range runs from 60p to 95p a cup across 14 products. That is a 1.6× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Missing Bean expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Mexico in the 1kg, and the dearest is Ethiopia in the 1kg.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mexico | whole bean | 1kg | £0.60 | £33.40 |
| Peru | whole bean | 1kg | £0.61 | £33.65 |
| Brazil | whole bean | 1kg | £0.62 | £34.25 |
| Nicaragua | whole bean | 1kg | £0.63 | £34.75 |
| Original | whole bean | 1kg | £0.63 | £34.75 |
| Remake | whole bean | 1kg | £0.63 | £34.75 |
| Half-Caff | whole bean | 1kg | £0.66 | £36.65 |
| DECAF Mexico | whole bean | 1kg | £0.68 | £37.80 |
| Rwanda | whole bean | 1kg | £0.73 | £40.45 |
| Colombia | whole bean | 1kg | £0.78 | £43.55 |
| Can We Talk? | whole bean | 250g | £0.79 | £44.00 |
| DECAF Colombia | whole bean | 1kg | £0.82 | £45.40 |
Bags themselves run £11.00 to £52.65. 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 Missing Bean, buy Mexico. At 60p a cup it comes in around 5% under the median for whole bean coffee, and that is measured against every brand in our catalogue rather than against Missing Bean'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?
- Missing Bean£0.60 per cup£439
- Typical whole bean£0.63 per cup, our median£460
At 2 cups a day, Missing Bean costs £21 less a year than the typical whole bean coffee we track. That is the same coffee habit, bought better.
How Missing Bean tastes
We have not tasted Missing Bean, 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 Missing Bean 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 a house blend to fall back on with named origins to wander into.
- Anyone whose real comparison is supermarket own-brand, judged per cup rather than by the label.
- 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. Missing Bean 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.
Missing Bean 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 Missing Bean, and the comparison hubs will put all of them on the same per-cup basis if you want to go wider.
Coffees priced like Missing Bean
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
Keep reading
PricesMissing Bean price guideEvery bag priced per cup and per kilo, with the cheapest route to each one.BrandAll Missing Bean pricesLive prices on all 14 products, cheapest cup first.CompareEvery whole bean coffeeAll 812 of them on one per-cup basis, filterable by roast and origin.ReviewThe Roasting Shed Limited reviewThe closest brand to Missing Bean on price, at 59p a cup.OffersToday's best valueEverything currently priced well under the median for its own format.