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Brand review · 3 min readThe Roasting Shed Limited coffee review
What The Roasting Shed Limited sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
The Roasting Shed Limited sells 8 coffees in the UK and the cheapest comes out at 59p 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
Bright, fruity coffee for people who already know they like it, for below the going rate.
Cheaper than 60% of the whole bean coffee we track
- 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
- 4/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 3/5
Cheapest cup£0.59across 8 products
Against the market−6%vs the whole bean median
Two cups a day£8.32a week, £0.50 less than typical
Mostly roastedLightfloral, citrus
Buy it ifyou finish a 1kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifMoon Roast Coffee at 59p would do
What kind of roaster this is
The Roasting Shed Limited sells whole bean and ground in the UK, and we track 8 of their coffees, in 1kg and 200g.
The Roasting Shed Limited is a blender: 75% of the range we can classify is blended rather than sold as a named origin. That is a choice, not a shortcut. A blend can be rebuilt season to season to taste the same, which is what you want if you buy the same coffee every month and would rather it did not move under you. 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. Colombia turns up in 63% of the range, so it is fair to call that the backbone of what they buy.
Formats and origins
What The Roasting Shed Limited sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What The Roasting Shed Limited coffee costs
The range runs from 59p to £1.62 a cup across eight products. That is a 2.7× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is The Roasting Shed Limited expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Espresso Blend 194 in the 1kg, and the dearest is El Encanto in the 200g.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Espresso Blend 194 | whole bean | 1kg | £0.59 | £33.00 |
| Fazenda Faxina | whole bean | 1kg | £0.63 | £35.00 |
| Nguguini | ground | 1kg | £0.67 | £37.00 |
| Montaña Espresso | — | 1kg | £0.71 | £39.50 |
| Decaf Espresso | — | 1kg | £0.71 | £39.50 |
| El Paraíso | ground | 1kg | £0.71 | £39.50 |
| Villa Pastora | — | 200g | £1.35 | £75.00 |
| El Encanto | — | 200g | £1.62 | £90.00 |
Bags themselves run £15.00 to £39.50. 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 The Roasting Shed Limited, buy Nguguini. At 67p a cup it comes in around 6% under the median for ground coffee, and that is measured against every brand in our catalogue rather than against The Roasting Shed Limited'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?
- The Roasting Shed Limited£0.59 per cup£434
- Typical whole bean£0.63 per cup, our median£460
At 2 cups a day, The Roasting Shed Limited costs £26 less a year than the typical whole bean coffee we track. That is the same coffee habit, bought better.
How The Roasting Shed Limited tastes
We have not tasted The Roasting Shed Limited, 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 The Roasting Shed Limited 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 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. The Roasting Shed Limited 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.
The Roasting Shed Limited 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 The Roasting Shed Limited, and the comparison hubs will put all of them on the same per-cup basis if you want to go wider.
Coffees priced like The Roasting Shed Limited
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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