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Brand review · 3 min readVagabond Coffee Roasters coffee review
What Vagabond Coffee Roasters sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Vagabond Coffee Roasters sells 7 coffees in the UK and the cheapest comes out at 58p 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
Delicate and fruit-forward rather than strong, and it undercuts the average.
Cheaper than 68% 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
- 2/5
Cheapest cup£0.58across 7 products
Against the market−9%vs the whole bean median
Two cups a day£8.06a week, £0.76 less than typical
Mostly roastedLightfloral, citrus
Buy it ifyou finish a 1kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifHalo Coffee 2018 at 58p would do
What kind of roaster this is
Vagabond Coffee Roasters sells whole bean in the UK, and we track 7 of their coffees, in 1kg.
Expect blends here rather than named farms: 71% 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. The buying reaches 5 countries across the range, which is a wide book for a brand this size. The roasting sits on just 2 of our five levels, so this is a range with a house style rather than a spread to pick from. 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 Vagabond Coffee Roasters sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Vagabond Coffee Roasters coffee costs
The range runs from 58p to 86p a cup across seven products. That is a 1.5× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Vagabond Coffee Roasters expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Cerrado Mineiro in the 1kg, and the dearest is Bwesumbu in the 1kg.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cerrado Mineiro | whole bean | 1kg | £0.58 | £32.00 |
| Finca La Lomita | whole bean | 1kg | £0.72 | £40.00 |
| Huehuetenango | whole bean | 1kg | £0.74 | £41.00 |
| Tuma Tesso | whole bean | 1kg | £0.79 | £44.00 |
| Lala Salama | whole bean | 1kg | £0.79 | £44.00 |
| El Conjuro | whole bean | 1kg | £0.79 | £44.00 |
| Bwesumbu | whole bean | 1kg | £0.85 | £47.50 |
Bags themselves run £32.00 to £47.50. 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 Vagabond Coffee Roasters, buy Cerrado Mineiro. At 58p a cup it comes in around 9% under the median for whole bean coffee, and that is measured against every brand in our catalogue rather than against Vagabond 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?
- Vagabond Coffee Roasters£0.58 per cup£420
- Typical whole bean£0.63 per cup, our median£460
At 2 cups a day, Vagabond Coffee Roasters costs £39 less a year than the typical whole bean coffee we track. That is the same coffee habit, bought better.
How Vagabond Coffee Roasters tastes
We have not tasted Vagabond 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 Vagabond 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.
- Households getting through real volume. The kilo bags are the whole value case, and they only work if you drink them fresh.
- 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. Vagabond 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.
Vagabond 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 Vagabond 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 Vagabond 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
PricesVagabond Coffee Roasters price guideEvery bag priced per cup and per kilo, with the cheapest route to each one.BrandAll Vagabond Coffee Roasters pricesLive prices on all 7 products, cheapest cup first.CompareEvery whole bean coffeeAll 812 of them on one per-cup basis, filterable by roast and origin.ReviewHalo Coffee 2018 reviewThe closest brand to Vagabond Coffee Roasters on price, at 58p a cup.OffersToday's best valueEverything currently priced well under the median for its own format.