£60.00 a kilo is the median price of the 241 Geisha coffees priced in pounds on Bean Clarity, measured at the cheapest bag each roaster sells. That is 1.6 times the market median of £38.00 a kilo. 379 Geisha coffees from 135 UK and Irish roasters are listed, 242 of them in stock now. A further 131 of them carry no figure, because every price we hold for them works out outside the £10 to £150 a kilo band the site accepts, so the median describes the Geishas we can price, not every Geisha on sale.
How every price on the site is read, and why some are refused, is in what speciality coffee should cost.
Bag size and the per-kilo figure
Bag size does not explain the figure here. 73% of the Geishas priced in pounds are measured on a 1 kg bag or larger, the same basis as most of the market, and only 4% on a bag under 200 g. The 131 Geishas with no figure are not in these shares, because no price of theirs falls inside the band.
On the standard 200 g to 350 g bag, which 219 of the priced Geishas sell, the median is £68.00 a kilo, so a 250 g bag at that median costs £17.00, against £47.50 a kilo for every coffee on that bag. The middle 80% of priced Geishas run from £35.20 a kilo to £119.00 a kilo. The dearest coffee the site prices is on its own page, and the method explains the band.
Where the Geishas come from
Geisha is a variety, not an origin. Counting the countries named on the Geishas from UK and Irish roasters, the most common are Colombia (134), Panama (61) and Peru (51). Panama, where the variety became known, has a median of £52.08 a kilo across the 22 Panamanian coffees priced in pounds, 12 of them Geisha. The site records the roaster’s stated origin, variety and process, and nothing about how the coffee tastes.
What the price does not tell you
Bean Clarity has no tasting data and does not say whether a Geisha is better than a coffee at the market median. A high price can reflect scarcity, auction lots, hand sorting or how the roaster positions the coffee; the site does not know which. What it does show is the cheapest bag, every bag size, the stated process and how far the roaster traces the coffee, and what Not stated means covers the gaps. For the other end of the market, see speciality coffee under £25 a kilo, and for why bigger bags cost less per kilo, why a bigger bag costs less.
Geisha priced in other currencies
849 Geisha coffees from 236 roasters elsewhere in Europe are listed too. 382 of all the Geishas we list are priced in euros and 93 in other currencies, and none of them is in the figures above, because the site converts nothing. Where the roasters are based is on the roaster countries page.
Where to start on the catalogue
The search finds both spellings: every Geisha in stock with a price, cheapest per kilo first. Nothing in that list is ordered by quality.
No roaster can pay to change a figure or the order of a list; any paid placement is labelled Sponsored.