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Brand review · 3 min readUnion Hand-Roasted coffee review
What Union Hand-Roasted sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Union Hand-Roasted sells 10 coffees in the UK and the cheapest comes out at 48p a cup, which is less than most of the whole bean coffee we track. Cheap coffee is easy to find and hard to trust, so the useful question is not whether it is cheap. It is what the range actually contains, and whether the bag doing the heavy lifting is the one you would want.
Short answer
A middle-of-the-road medium roast, black or white, and it costs very little.
Cheaper than 82% of the whole bean coffee we track
- Tastes
- Balanced, caramel and chocolate
- Strength
- Medium
- Best for
- Everyday coffee, black or white
- Valuecup price vs the format median
- 4/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 5/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 5/5
Cheapest cup£0.48across 10 products
Against the market−24%vs the whole bean median
Two cups a day£6.75a week, £2.07 less than typical
Mostly roastedMediumcaramel, balanced
Buy it ifyou finish a 1kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifyou are chasing a named farm or origin
Union Hand-Roasted products we track
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What kind of roaster this is
Union Hand-Roasted sells whole bean and ground in the UK, and we track 10 of their coffees, in 1kg, 400g, 500g and 200g.
60% of the Union Hand-Roasted 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 10 countries across the range, which is a wide book for a brand this size. The roasting sits on just 2 of our five levels, so this is a range with a house style rather than a spread to pick from. 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. Rwanda turns up in 50% of the range, so it is fair to call that the backbone of what they buy.
Formats and origins
What Union Hand-Roasted sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Union Hand-Roasted coffee costs
The range runs from 48p to 84p a cup across ten products. That is a 1.7× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Union Hand-Roasted expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Natural Process Decaf in the 1kg, and the dearest is Timana Colombia in the 200g.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Natural Process Decaf | whole bean | 1kg | £0.48 | £26.77 |
| Revelation Espresso | whole bean | 1kg | £0.48 | £26.77 |
| Yayu Wild Forest Blend | whole bean | 1kg | £0.48 | £26.77 |
| House Roast Specialty | ground | 400g | £0.53 | £29.53 |
| Daily Roast | whole bean | 1kg | £0.54 | £29.99 |
| Organic Natural Spirit Blend | whole bean | 1kg | £0.56 | £30.99 |
| Daily Roast Espresso | whole bean | 500g | £0.56 | £31.20 |
| Revelation Espresso | whole bean | 500g | £0.58 | £32.00 |
| Union Hand Roasted Maraba Rwanda | whole bean | 200g | £0.74 | £41.25 |
| Timana Colombia | ground | 200g | £0.84 | £46.60 |
Bags themselves run £8.25 to £30.99. 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 Union Hand-Roasted, buy House Roast Specialty. At 53p a cup it comes in around 25% under the median for ground coffee, and that is measured against every brand in our catalogue rather than against Union Hand-Roasted'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?
- Union Hand-Roasted£0.48 per cup£352
- Typical whole bean£0.63 per cup, our median£460
At 2 cups a day, Union Hand-Roasted costs £108 less a year than the typical whole bean coffee we track. That is the same coffee habit, bought better.
How Union Hand-Roasted tastes
We have not tasted Union Hand-Roasted, 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 Union Hand-Roasted 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.
- Anyone whose real comparison is supermarket own-brand, judged per cup rather than by the label.
- People who already know they like a medium roast, because that is essentially all there is here.
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. Union Hand-Roasted 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.
What else to consider
No brand is worth buying without knowing what sits next to it on price. These are the closest whole bean coffees we track to Union Hand-Roasted, and the comparison hubs will put all of them on the same per-cup basis if you want to go wider.
Coffees priced like Union Hand-Roasted
The closest whole bean 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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