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Brand review · 3 min readPeru & Brazil coffee review
What Peru & Brazil sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Peru & Brazil asks 94p a cup at its cheapest, which is more than most ground 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
A light roast with real acidity, best drunk black, and it is not cheap.
Cheaper than 20% of the ground coffee we track
- Tastes
- Bright and floral, noticeably acidic
- Strength
- Mild
- Best for
- Filter and pour-over
- Valuecup price vs the format median
- 1/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 4/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 3/5
Cheapest cup£0.94across 18 products
Against the market+32%vs the ground median
Two cups a day£13.10a week at its cheapest
Mostly roastedLightfloral, citrus
Buy it ifyou finish a 1kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifCairngorm Coffee at 92p would do
What kind of roaster this is
Peru & Brazil sells whole bean, ground and pods in the UK, and we track 18 of their coffees, in 100 pods, 1kg, 250g and 10000 pods.
100% of the Peru & Brazil 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 6 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. Decaf is 17% of the range, which is unusually well served; most brands treat it as an afterthought.
Formats and origins
What Peru & Brazil sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Peru & Brazil coffee costs
The range runs from 7p to £1.33 a cup across 18 products. That is a 19× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Peru & Brazil expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Home Compostable Espresso Capsules in the 100 pods, and the dearest is La Colorada Gesha in the 250g.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home Compostable Espresso Capsules | pods | 100 pods | £0.07 | — |
| Home Compostable Decaffeinated Capsules | pods | 100 pods | £0.07 | — |
| Pillar | — | 1kg | £0.54 | £30.00 |
| Article | — | 1kg | £0.58 | £32.00 |
| Evergreen | — | 1kg | £0.65 | £36.00 |
| Madegi | — | 1kg | £0.76 | £42.00 |
| Chakra | — | 1kg | £0.76 | £42.00 |
| El Nevado | — | 1kg | £0.83 | £46.00 |
| Legacy | — | 1kg | £0.86 | £48.00 |
| La Plata Decaf | — | 1kg | £0.90 | £50.00 |
| Reset Half Caff | — | 1kg | £0.90 | £50.00 |
| Izuba Espresso | — | 1kg | £0.90 | £50.00 |
Bags themselves run £7.00 to £56.00. 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 Peru & Brazil, buy Home Compostable Espresso Capsules. At 7p a cup it comes in around 86% under the median for pods coffee, and that is measured against every brand in our catalogue rather than against Peru & Brazil'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?
- Peru & Brazil£0.94 per cup£683
- Typical ground£0.71 per cup, our median£516
At 2 cups a day, Peru & Brazil costs £168 more a year than the typical ground coffee we track. Worth knowing before you commit to a subscription.
How Peru & Brazil tastes
We have not tasted Peru & Brazil, 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 Peru & Brazil 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. Peru & Brazil 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.
Peru & Brazil 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 ground coffees we track to Peru & Brazil, and the comparison hubs will put all of them on the same per-cup basis if you want to go wider.
Coffees priced like Peru & Brazil
The closest ground 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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