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Brand review · 3 min readVolcano Coffee Works coffee review
What Volcano Coffee Works sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Volcano Coffee Works asks 53p 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
Weekday capsules for people who want the cup, not the ritual, at an unremarkable price.
Cheaper than 47% of the pods coffee we track
- Tastes
- Bright and floral, noticeably acidic
- Strength
- Mild
- Best for
- Quick weekday cups
- Valuecup price vs the format median
- 2/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 4/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 4/5
Cheapest cup£0.53across 24 products
Against the market+1%vs the pods median
Two cups a day£7.35a week at its cheapest
Largest pack2kg£28.00 per kg
Buy it ifyour machine takes these capsules
Skip it ifUe Coffee Roasters at 52p would do
What kind of roaster this is
Volcano Coffee Works sells whole bean and pods in the UK, and we track 24 of their coffees, in 2kg, 200 pods, 40 pods and 1kg.
Expect blends here rather than named farms: 83% 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 8 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. 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 Volcano Coffee Works sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Volcano Coffee Works coffee costs
The range runs from 50p to £1.44 a cup across 24 products. That is a 2.9× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Volcano Coffee Works expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is The Brixton in the 2kg, and the dearest is Kamavindi in the 500g.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Brixton | — | 2kg | £0.50 | £28.00 |
| Mount Blend | pods | 200 pods | £0.53 | — |
| Rise Up Blend | — | 2kg | £0.54 | £30.00 |
| Mount Blend | pods | 40 pods | £0.55 | — |
| Decaf | pods | 40 pods | £0.55 | — |
| Firehouse Blend | — | 2kg | £0.58 | £32.50 |
| The Mount Blend | — | 2kg | £0.58 | £32.50 |
| Sombra | — | 2kg | £0.59 | £33.00 |
| Fullsteam Espresso | — | 2kg | £0.63 | £35.00 |
| House Brazil | — | 1kg | £0.65 | £36.00 |
| Crisis Coffee Blend | — | 1kg | £0.67 | £37.00 |
| Fazenda Mió | — | 1kg | £0.68 | £38.00 |
Bags themselves run £12.00 to £105.00. 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
The Brixton is the cheapest thing Volcano Coffee Works sells, at 50p 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?
- Volcano Coffee Works£0.53 per cup£383
- Typical pods£0.52 per cup, our median£378
At 2 cups a day, Volcano Coffee Works costs £5 more a year than the typical pods coffee we track. Worth knowing before you commit to a subscription.
How Volcano Coffee Works tastes
We have not tasted Volcano Coffee Works, 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 Volcano Coffee Works 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 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. Volcano Coffee Works 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.
Volcano Coffee Works 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 Volcano Coffee Works, and the comparison hubs will put all of them on the same per-cup basis if you want to go wider.
Coffees priced like Volcano Coffee Works
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
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PricesVolcano Coffee Works price guideEvery bag priced per cup and per kilo, with the cheapest route to each one.BrandAll Volcano Coffee Works pricesLive prices on all 24 products, cheapest cup first.CompareEvery pods coffeeAll 129 of them on one per-cup basis, filterable by roast and origin.ReviewUe Coffee Roasters reviewThe closest brand to Volcano Coffee Works on price, at 52p a cup.OffersToday's best valueEverything currently priced well under the median for its own format.