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Brand review · 4 min readWhite Rose Coffee Roasters coffee review
What White Rose Coffee Roasters sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
White Rose Coffee Roasters sells 38 coffees in the UK and the cheapest comes out at 28p 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
A middle-of-the-road medium roast, black or white, and it costs very little.
Cheaper than 99% of the whole bean coffee we track
- Tastes
- Balanced, caramel and chocolate
- Strength
- Medium
- Best for
- Everyday coffee, black or white
- Valuecup price vs the format median
- 5/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 5/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 5/5
Cheapest cup£0.28across 38 products
Against the market−55%vs the whole bean median
Two cups a day£3.99a week, £4.83 less than typical
Mostly roastedMediumcaramel, balanced
Buy it ifyou finish a 6kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifyou are chasing a named farm or origin
What kind of roaster this is
White Rose Coffee Roasters sells whole bean in the UK, and we track 38 of their coffees, in 6kg, 1kg and 500g.
71% of the White Rose Coffee Roasters 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 21 countries across the range, which is a wide book for a brand this size. The roasting spans 5 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 White Rose Coffee Roasters sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What White Rose Coffee Roasters coffee costs
The range runs from 28p to £2.12 a cup across 38 products. That is a 7.5× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is White Rose Coffee Roasters expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is The Spire Espresso Blend Roasted in the 6kg, and the dearest is Jamaica Blue Mountain Roasted in the 500g.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Spire Espresso Blend Roasted | whole bean | 6kg | £0.28 | £15.82 |
| Shibden Blend Roasted | whole bean | 6kg | £0.31 | £17.06 |
| Brazil Nuts | whole bean | 6kg | £0.31 | £17.06 |
| Colombian Excelso Roasted | whole bean | 6kg | £0.32 | £17.55 |
| Colombian Natural Flor Del Desierto Roasted | whole bean | 6kg | £0.32 | £17.99 |
| Cattle Market Espresso Roasted | whole bean | 6kg | £0.32 | £18.04 |
| Mexico Washed Roasted | whole bean | 1kg | £0.33 | £18.49 |
| Udderly Sublime Espresso Blend Roasted | whole bean | 1kg | £0.34 | £18.99 |
| El Salvador El Cipres Natural Red Bourbon Roasted | whole bean | 1kg | £0.34 | £18.99 |
| Brazil Santos Roasted | whole bean | 1kg | £0.34 | £19.04 |
| Honduras | whole bean | 1kg | £0.34 | £19.10 |
| Old Brown Java Roasted | whole bean | 1kg | £0.35 | £19.49 |
Bags themselves run £15.99 to £108.27. 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 White Rose Coffee Roasters, buy The Spire Espresso Blend Roasted. At 28p a cup it comes in around 55% under the median for whole bean coffee, and that is measured against every brand in our catalogue rather than against White Rose 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?
- White Rose Coffee Roasters£0.28 per cup£208
- Typical whole bean£0.63 per cup, our median£460
At 2 cups a day, White Rose Coffee Roasters costs £252 less a year than the typical whole bean coffee we track. That is the same coffee habit, bought better.
How White Rose Coffee Roasters tastes
We have not tasted White Rose 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 White Rose 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 want to choose their own roast rather than take the roaster's word for it, since the range covers 5 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. White Rose 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.
White Rose 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 White Rose 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 White Rose 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
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