Small Batch Coffee Roasters Reviews 87

TrustScore 4 out of 5

3.9

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Have had a great experience with this company and customer service have been very quick and easy to deal with. Will continue to order my delicious beans from here.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Brilliant fresh roasted coffee beans every few weeks. I can change delivery on line should I need less or more easily. Notified when payment taken and when roasted and sent. Delicious flavours. Only p... See more

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Appalling service, they do not respond to emails or phone calls. The coffee arrived in a damaged box and one of the 5kg bags was split open with the coffee beans everywhere, The other 5kg was stale co... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I ordered from their website over the weekend, but it’s now Thursday, and my order hasn’t arrived. Despite their policy of using Royal Mail Tracked 48, they didn’t use the tracked service. Customer se... See more

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  1. Coffee Roasters

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Small Batch Coffee were founded in Brighton in 2006 and have been roasting locally ever since. We have 6 locations across Brighton and Hove where customers come to chill out with friends, pets or their laptops to enjoy their local speciality coffee roaster and a bite to eat. You can buy our beans online or in our stores, and we also have a coffee club that introduces you to a new roast every single month.


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Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Subscription service: Great coffee, slow delivery

The coffee is great, but it’s very slow delivery, often a week or more after the subscription order is processed. This negates the convenience of a subscription service.

10 October 2022
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Reply from Small Batch Coffee Roasters

Thanks for your review and feedback. We apologise for the delay in getting your order out sometimes! It's something we're working hard on to improve. Thanks for bearing with us.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Great coffee, delivery not so great.

The coffee is great and I can highly recommend it. I've taken a star off for my delivery experience - I've had two deliveries go missing, which is very frustrating as I work from home and so it's hard for me to get anywhere that sells decent coffee. I appreciate that there are mail strikes, but I'd be happy to pay for a courier. Unfortunately they don't offer that option.

3 October 2022
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Reply from Small Batch Coffee Roasters

Thank you very much for your review and feedback. I totally understand this is very frustrating, please accept our apologies for this. We're currently investigating some courier options, so it might be something we're able to offer in the future!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great coffee

Great coffee. Great service and a fair price.

14 September 2022
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Reply from Small Batch Coffee Roasters

Thank you!! We're glad you're loving our coffee.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

big taste

Small batch - big taste!

7 September 2022
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Reply from Small Batch Coffee Roasters

Haha, we love it! Might use that one. Thanks a lot for your review, we really appreciate it. Ecstatic to hear you're loving our beans, love team SB x

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Brilliant fresh roasted coffee beans…

Brilliant fresh roasted coffee beans every few weeks. I can change delivery on line should I need less or more easily. Notified when payment taken and when roasted and sent. Delicious flavours. Only postal strike slightly delayed delivery this month. Highly recommend this company.

7 September 2022
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Reply from Small Batch Coffee Roasters

Thank you very much for your review and feedback! It's great to hear what we're doing right. Apologies about the postal strike, it should be back to normal now. Thanks again, team SB x

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Love smallbatch

Love smallbatch. Really excellent coffees.

25 August 2022
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Reply from Small Batch Coffee Roasters

Thank you very much for your review! We really appreciate it.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Excellent coffee

Excellent coffee! Always super freshly roasted. The coffee club has a really interesting and delicious selection of coffees. Good value and delivered to the door. The best coffee subscription I have tried. Highly recommended.

29 August 2022
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Reply from Small Batch Coffee Roasters

Thank you so much for your review! We're very happy to hear you're enjoying our Coffee Club.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I have been using Small Batch Coffee…

I have been using Small Batch Coffee for a few years they always send me great tasting coffee, it’s a prompt service and very reliable. I always look forward to receiving my next batch.

23 August 2022
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Reply from Small Batch Coffee Roasters

Thank you for your kind words! We really appreciate it and are very happy to hear you're loving our beans.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great coffee

Great coffee. The subscription services works a treat and the variety of beans keeps things interesting over the year. Fab!

18 August 2022
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Reply from Small Batch Coffee Roasters

Thank you for your review and kind words, we're so happy you love it!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great coffee, great team

Really great coffee beans and friendly, helpful team

17 August 2022
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Reply from Small Batch Coffee Roasters

Thank you very much! We're happy to help always.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

The coffee beans absolutely fantastic…

The coffee beans absolutely fantastic but due to keep changing staffs you will always have different taste in your regular coffee. They should think about have experienced staff rather than training them at all of their branches. That's why I only buy coffee beans from there.

23 June 2022
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

No laptop policy - what?!

Small batch has been one of my favourite places. But the new management decided not to allow laptop use until 2pm. The most absurd thing I have heard. I’m not going again, there are many good coffee shops in brighton&hove. Their loss!

2 September 2021
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Wouldn't let me work on my laptop, even though it was half-empty

I didn’t want to work from home alone at the weekend so popped out with my laptop, heard Small Batch is good for that. Finally found a quiet spot in the one by Hove station and ordered my coffee, only to be told when I received it, that there is a no laptop policy at the weekends. Even though the place was half empty.

The people at the table next to me were surprised, as was I. Such a shame after we’ve all experienced more isolation than usual of late, that a place like this would introduce such a policy...and be so strict on it...I heard good things about Small Batch but this was a really disappointing experience.

20 June 2021
Unprompted review
Rated 2 out of 5 stars

I once loved dealing with Small Batch, but no more

I once loved dealing with Small Batch, they were a nice company, selling great coffee and with a personal touch. I enjoyed visiting their cafes as well.

The last few visits to their cafes weren't the best experiences I've ever had, so I stopped doing that - it was my decision and I didn't make a big deal out of it. However, I did continue to buy their coffee (which is excellent), including via a subscription that I'd had for about 6-7 years.

Recently, they sent me someone else's order, which is easily done I accept that. The quality of a company is in how they sort out problems and, in my opinion, Small Batch made quite a meal out of a simple problem. Replies were slow, and eventually just stopped when it became mixed up with my subscription. In the end, I was never sure if I got my subscription delivery as well as the full order.

I really wanted to continue with my subscription, I like the coffee, but when emails are ignored asking if I should renew, then it's time to move on. So, I did, and I'm really happy with the new company.

I thought long and hard about writing this review, mainly as I wanted Small Batch to reply to me so that we could set things straight, but they didn't. They ignored three emails in a row, which is poor. I was still willing to have a subscription, they just needed to tell me if it was time to renew.

The coffee is still excellent, and I sincerely hope that this continues. Small Batch as a company just have to work on their customer service or people will stop buying the product. As I said, I'd already moved on from the cafe service, now I've moved on completely.

My purpose here is to prod Small Batch into a better standard of customer service so that they continue to produce excellent coffee.

5 March 2020
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars

The Wilbury road shop used to be great…

The Wilbury road shop used to be great but although the staff do there best it is sadly now understaffed . Early mornings are manned by one person . The poor sods are run off their feet...Clearly a decision by new owners to run on a show string budget .
It used to be a pleasure pre work now a painful experience. You have lots of people who walk in see the queue and walk out.

Come on small batch you can do a lot better !!!!!

10 February 2020
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

The coffee is amazing and we use it in…

The coffee is amazing and we use it in the bar I work in, for hot drinks or for cocktails - its best for espresso martini!

however, you should maybe check on the coffee shop in Worthing, as its letting the franchise down - quite a poor service and cleanliness

3 February 2020
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