Coffees North Star Coffee Roasters

Ethiopia

North Star Coffee Roasters

Ethiopia Lalesa Red Honey

floral · peach

£54.00/kg

42% above similar on their 250 g bag

£54.00 for 1 kg, their cheapest per kilo · about £0.97 for an 18 g espresso dose

The badge compares the standard 250 g bag at £72.00/kg against 1193 coffees from 297 roasters in Single origin (standard bag, 200–350 g), so that every coffee is compared on the same size.

Price observed 3 Nov 2026. This is the bag, not the basket: delivery is not included.

Delivery cost not stated by the roaster

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BagPricePer kilo
250 g£18.00£72.00/kg
1 kg£54.00£54.00/kg

The 1 kg bag works out 25% cheaper per kilo than the 250 g.

How it sits among coffee from Ethiopia

How often roasters use each flavour family to describe coffee from Ethiopia: 539 of 857 carry notes. The dashed outline is the whole catalogue. These are the roasters’ own words, grouped — not our tasting, and not a measurement.

North Star Coffee Roasters describe this coffee as fruity, floral. The filled shape is how often roasters use each family across coffee from Ethiopia; the rings on the rim are this coffee’s own.

Every family the roaster names is a common one for coffee from Ethiopia, so this reads as a typical example rather than an outlier.

The roasters’ own words, grouped — not our tasting, and not a measurement. We have not tasted this coffee. All Ethiopia coffees

What the roaster says about where it came from

Country
Ethiopia
Process
honey
Not stated
region, farm or estate, producer, variety, altitude, harvest, lot, importer, price paid to the producer

We report what the roaster publishes and we have not checked any of it independently. A fact nobody publishes is not a fault of the coffee: almost no roaster in the UK states an importer or the price paid to the producer.

What North Star Coffee Roasters says about itself

B Corp

North Star is proud to be a certified B Corporation, part of a global community of businesses committed to using business as a vehicle for… part of a longer passage their page (opens in a new tab)

Fairtrade

“Co-Founder Hols began her career in coffee in 2011 looking at the impact of Fairtrade on coffee communities in Kenya.” their page (opens in a new tab)

Women led

“Star is proud to be recognised as a Buy Women Built business, celebrating and supporting female-led brands across the UK.” their page (opens in a new tab)

Compostable packaging

“We were the first coffee company in 2022 to introduce home-compostable packaging for our retail coffee bags.” their page (opens in a new tab)

Recyclable packaging

…garcane, alongside compostable inks, valves and seals. For larger bags that still require recyclable plastic for durability and freshness, we operate return and recycling systems through spe… part of a longer passage their page (opens in a new tab)

Publishes a transparency report

…helping hold us accountable to the standards we set ourselves as a business. Read our Impact Report We believe impact should be measurable, transparent, and constantly evolv… part of a longer passage their page (opens in a new tab)

These are claims the roaster makes about its business, not about this coffee, and we have not checked them against any register.

Where each fact came from

Flavour families

Bright, floral and packed with fizzy peach sweetness, it's the sort of coffee that makes you stop after the first sip just to work out what you're tasting… part of a longer passage the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Tasting notes

Bright, floral and packed with fizzy peach sweetness, it's the sort of coffee that makes you stop after the first sip just to work out what you're tasting… part of a longer passage the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

A further 2 facts on this page were read from part of the shop page that holds no sentence — a menu or a product grid — so there is nothing to quote for them.

Taken from the roaster’s own pages, and nothing here has been verified by us or by an independent body. What we store is a passage of page text cut around the fact, so one shown with an ellipsis is a passage we cannot see the start or the end of; only the fully quoted ones are complete sentences.

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