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Brand review · 3 min readUe Coffee Roasters coffee review
What Ue Coffee Roasters sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Ue Coffee Roasters asks 52p a cup at its cheapest, which is more than most pods 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
Push-button coffee at the going rate.
Cheaper than 50% 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£0.52across 18 products
Against the market−0%vs the pods median
Two cups a day£7.28a week at its cheapest
Mostly roastedMediumcaramel, balanced
Buy it ifyour machine takes these capsules
Skip it ifNespresso at 52p would do
Ue Coffee Roasters products we track
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What kind of roaster this is
Ue Coffee Roasters sells whole bean and pods in the UK, and we track 18 of their coffees, in 100 pods, 1kg, 3kg and 250g.
Ue Coffee Roasters is a blender: 89% 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 buying reaches 8 countries across the range, which is a wide book for a brand this size. The roasting spans 4 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 Ue Coffee Roasters sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Ue Coffee Roasters coffee costs
The range runs from 52p to 97p a cup across 18 products. That is a 1.9× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Ue Coffee Roasters expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Sugarcane Decaf Espresso in the 100 pods, and the dearest is Whisky Barrel Aged Double Bourbon in the 250g.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sugarcane Decaf Espresso | pods | 100 pods | £0.52 | — |
| House Roast Espresso | pods | 100 pods | £0.52 | — |
| Guatemala Seasonal Espresso | whole bean | 1kg | £0.54 | £29.95 |
| Classical House Roast Blend | — | 3kg | £0.55 | £30.33 |
| Classical Dark Rising Blend | — | 3kg | £0.57 | £31.67 |
| Brazil Aracacu Arara Microlot | — | 1kg | £0.58 | £32.00 |
| Brazil Ibiraci | — | 1kg | £0.58 | £32.00 |
| Brazil Aracacu Catucai Microlot | — | 1kg | £0.58 | £32.00 |
| Brazil Aracacu Topazio Microlot | — | 1kg | £0.58 | £32.00 |
| Solidarity Charity Blend | — | 3kg | £0.60 | £33.33 |
| Guatemala Zacapa | — | 1kg | £0.68 | £38.00 |
| Honduras Bird Friendly Capucas | — | 1kg | £0.71 | £39.60 |
Bags themselves run £13.50 to £100.00. 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
If you buy one thing from Ue Coffee Roasters, buy Guatemala Seasonal Espresso. At 54p a cup it comes in around 14% under the median for whole bean coffee, and that is measured against every brand in our catalogue rather than against Ue Coffee Roasters'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?
- Ue Coffee Roasters£0.52 per cup£380
- Typical pods£0.52 per cup, our median£378
At 2 cups a day, Ue Coffee Roasters costs £1 more a year than the typical pods coffee we track. Worth knowing before you commit to a subscription.
How Ue Coffee Roasters tastes
We have not tasted Ue 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 Ue 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.
- Pod machine owners, though price a compatible capsule for your machine before committing to the brand's own.
- People who want to choose their own roast rather than take the roaster's word for it, since the range covers 4 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. Ue Coffee Roasters 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 pods coffees we track to Ue Coffee Roasters, and the comparison hubs will put all of them on the same per-cup basis if you want to go wider.
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Compare against the market
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