Five Elephant | Bean Clarity

What we can work out from their listings

Traceability

traced to a farm on 5, traced to a region on 9, traced to a country on 9, no origin stated on 6

Origins they name

Colombia, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Kenya

Processes they name

honey, natural, washed

Single origin or blend

3 blends, 26 not stated

Decaf

1 in the range

Every figure here is counted from this roaster’s own listings, not from a profile they filled in. We hold no review scores and no verified certifications for any roaster, and we do not collect them. How we count this

How Five Elephant compares

60,00 €/kgtheir median, across 25 priced coffees

41,38 € – 80,51 €where the middle 80% of their range sits

+21%against the median of their own market, 49,40 €/kg

30,00 €130,00 € per kilo

Every priced coffee they sell is a tick. The solid line is their median, the dashed line the median of their market. A roaster above the catalogue is not overcharging and one below is not better value — we hold no quality signal of any kind, so a price difference is only a price difference.

How they describe their coffee

Roasters describe Five Elephant's coffees as floral on 58% of them, 3.5 times as often as the catalogue, and citrus on 67% of them, 2.3 times as often as the catalogue.

How often roasters use each flavour family to describe Five Elephant's coffees: 12 of 29 carry notes. The dashed outline is the whole catalogue. These are the roasters’ own words, grouped — not our tasting, and not a measurement.

Flavour families in roasters’ notes for Five Elephant's coffees, most common first, against the whole catalogue.
Family	Coffees	Share	Catalogue
Fruity	11	92%	60%
Citrus	8	67%	29%
Floral	7	58%	17%
Caramel and sweet	4	33%	54%
Tea-like	4	33%	8%
Chocolate	2	17%	46%
Winey	1	8%	5%

Counted from their own listings, not from a profile they filled in. The same figures for the whole market.

What they say about themselves

Delivery

We hold no delivery price for this roaster. their delivery page (opens in a new tab)

Fairtrade

“Why isn’t your coffee marked as Fair Trade?” their page (opens in a new tab)

Direct tradeno register to check it against

“We feel that the term that best describes our sourcing philosophy is Direct Trade.” their page (opens in a new tab)

These are claims this roaster makes on its own website and we have checked none of them. The sourcing and packaging ones are about the business rather than any particular bag, so they are never applied to an individual coffee. The delivery total is the exception: it is quoted on each of their coffees, because what you pay to have a bag sent to you is part of what the bag costs.

Their coffees

14 of 29 match, cheapest per kilo first. The ones with no published price come last