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Brand review · 3 min readJose Gomez coffee review
What Jose Gomez sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Jose Gomez sells 15 coffees in the UK and the cheapest comes out at 42p a cup, which is less than most of the pods 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
Push-button coffee at less than most people pay.
Cheaper than 65% of the pods coffee we track
- Tastes
- Balanced, caramel and chocolate
- Strength
- Medium
- Best for
- Quick weekday cups
- Valuecup price vs the format median
- 3/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 5/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 5/5
Cheapest cup£0.42across 15 products
Against the market−18%vs the pods median
Two cups a day£5.93a week, £1.32 less than typical
Mostly roastedMediumcaramel, balanced
Buy it ifyour machine takes these capsules
Skip it ifDunkin' Donuts at 43p would do
What kind of roaster this is
Jose Gomez sells whole bean, ground and pods in the UK, and we track 15 of their coffees, in 33 pods and 1kg.
80% of the Jose Gomez range we can classify is blended. Blending has a bad name it does not deserve; it is how a roaster keeps a coffee tasting like itself when the harvest behind it changes, and it is the reason your regular bag is still your regular bag in January. The buying reaches 9 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.
Formats and origins
What Jose Gomez sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Jose Gomez coffee costs
The range runs from 42p to 73p a cup across 15 products. That is a 1.7× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Jose Gomez expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is BS1 Espresso in the 33 pods, and the dearest is Burundi Izuba in the 1kg.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BS1 Espresso | pods | 33 pods | £0.42 | — |
| Colombia El Carmen Decaf | pods | 33 pods | £0.42 | — |
| Brazil Classico | pods | 33 pods | £0.42 | — |
| Cruise Control | — | 1kg | £0.47 | £25.99 |
| Jumpstart | — | 1kg | £0.47 | £25.99 |
| BS1 Espresso | — | 1kg | £0.47 | £25.99 |
| Colombia Sugarcane Decaf | — | 1kg | £0.48 | £26.49 |
| Shop Filter | ground | 1kg | £0.51 | £28.49 |
| Mixtape | — | 1kg | £0.54 | £29.99 |
| Papua New Guinea | — | 1kg | £0.66 | £36.59 |
| Kenya | — | 1kg | £0.70 | £38.90 |
| Costa Rica La Coloreteada | — | 1kg | £0.71 | £39.39 |
Bags themselves run £13.99 to £40.29. 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 Jose Gomez, buy Shop Filter. At 51p a cup it comes in around 27% under the median for ground coffee, and that is measured against every brand in our catalogue rather than against Jose Gomez'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?
- Jose Gomez£0.42 per cup£309
- Typical pods£0.52 per cup, our median£378
At 2 cups a day, Jose Gomez costs £69 less a year than the typical pods coffee we track. That is the same coffee habit, bought better.
How Jose Gomez tastes
We have not tasted Jose Gomez, 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 Jose Gomez 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. Jose Gomez 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.
Jose Gomez 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 pods coffees we track to Jose Gomez, and the comparison hubs will put all of them on the same per-cup basis if you want to go wider.
Coffees priced like Jose Gomez
The closest pods 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
PricesJose Gomez price guideEvery bag priced per cup and per kilo, with the cheapest route to each one.BrandAll Jose Gomez pricesLive prices on all 15 products, cheapest cup first.CompareEvery pods coffeeAll 129 of them on one per-cup basis, filterable by roast and origin.ReviewDunkin' Donuts reviewThe closest brand to Jose Gomez on price, at 43p a cup.OffersToday's best valueEverything currently priced well under the median for its own format.