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Brand review · 3 min readTHE SOURCE COFFEE ROASTERS coffee review
What THE SOURCE COFFEE ROASTERS sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
THE SOURCE COFFEE ROASTERS asks £1.04 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
Delicate and fruit-forward rather than strong, at a price that expects you to care.
Cheaper than 9% 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
- 1/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 4/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 3/5
Cheapest cup£1.04across 8 products
Against the market+66%vs the whole bean median
Two cups a day£14.62a week at its cheapest
Mostly roastedLightfloral, citrus
Buy it ifyou finish a 1kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifAlchemy at £1.17 would do
What kind of roaster this is
THE SOURCE COFFEE ROASTERS sells whole bean in the UK, and we track 8 of their coffees, in 1kg, 200g and 150g.
Expect blends here rather than named farms: 63% 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. Everything is roasted to the same point on our five-point scale, so the roast is not a choice you make here; it is the house style, take it or leave it. 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 88% of the range, so it is fair to call that the backbone of what they buy.
Formats and origins
What THE SOURCE COFFEE ROASTERS sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What THE SOURCE COFFEE ROASTERS coffee costs
The range runs from £1.04 to £2.52 a cup across eight products. That is a 2.4× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is THE SOURCE COFFEE ROASTERS expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Joel Marin Anoxic Natural Gesha in the 1kg, and the dearest is Quebraditas Lo-caff in the 200g.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joel Marin Anoxic Natural Gesha | whole bean | 1kg | £1.04 | £58.00 |
| El Paraiso Decaf | whole bean | 1kg | £1.40 | £78.00 |
| Edinson Argote Thermal Maragesha | whole bean | 1kg | £1.69 | £94.00 |
| Quebraditas Thermal Sudan Rume | whole bean | 1kg | £1.73 | £96.00 |
| Quebraditas Natural Papayo | whole bean | 1kg | £1.87 | £104.00 |
| Quebraditas Natural Sudan Rume | whole bean | 1kg | £2.02 | £112.00 |
| Quebraditas Lo-caff | whole bean | 200g | £2.52 | £140.00 |
Bags themselves run £28.00 to £112.00. 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
Joel Marin Anoxic Natural Gesha is the cheapest thing THE SOURCE COFFEE ROASTERS sells, at £1.04 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?
- THE SOURCE COFFEE ROASTERS£1.04 per cup£762
- Typical whole bean£0.63 per cup, our median£460
At 2 cups a day, THE SOURCE COFFEE ROASTERS costs £302 more a year than the typical whole bean coffee we track. Worth knowing before you commit to a subscription.
How THE SOURCE COFFEE ROASTERS tastes
We have not tasted THE SOURCE 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 THE SOURCE 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.
- Anyone whose real comparison is supermarket own-brand, judged per cup rather than by the label.
- People who already know they like a light 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. THE SOURCE 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.
THE SOURCE 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 whole bean coffees we track to THE SOURCE 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 THE SOURCE COFFEE ROASTERS
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
PricesTHE SOURCE COFFEE ROASTERS price guideEvery bag priced per cup and per kilo, with the cheapest route to each one.BrandAll THE SOURCE COFFEE ROASTERS 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.ReviewAlchemy reviewThe closest brand to THE SOURCE COFFEE ROASTERS on price, at £1.17 a cup.OffersToday's best valueEverything currently priced well under the median for its own format.