Speciality Coffee
Sip on clean, speciality coffee, lab-tested for purity. No mould, no pesticides, no jitters, no crash.
What is Speciality Coffee?
Speciality coffee refers to coffee scored 80 points or higher on a 100-point scale by certified coffee tasters. It is grown in ideal climates and processed with precision to preserve flavour complexity. Speciality coffee emphasises quality, traceability, and sustainable farming practices from bean to cup.
We've crafted a collection of speciality coffees with an incredible diversity of flavours in mind. They are some of the best coffee beans in the UK. These are the highest grade you can find when you decide to buy arabica coffee beans in the UK.
Why are our Speciality Coffee Beans or Ground Different?
Here's what makes speciality coffee stand out, whether you are looking for dark, medium or light roast coffee beans:
High-Quality Beans
Speciality coffee uses the best beans, often called speciality grade coffee beans. These beans are grown in special places, high up, where they get the perfect mix of sun and rain, the result is a healthy coffee that taste amazing.
Eco-Friendly and Fair
Farmers grow this coffee sustainably for our planet. This approach is especially important in the speciality coffee UK market. They also ensure that the coffee growers are treated well and paid fairly.
Expert Processing
Turning these beans into speciality coffee is a careful process. It keeps all the wonderful flavours in the beans. When you buy speciality coffee UK, you get a product made with great care.
Unimaginable Flavour, Traceability & Roasting
Perfect Roasting and Brewing
Roasting is key to bringing out the best in speciality coffee beans. It's an art to get it just right. Brewing this clean coffee also needs special attention to ensure it tastes perfect.
Delicious Flavours
The best speciality coffee beans or grounds have a range of flavours, from fruity and floral to nutty and chocolaty. It's what makes speciality coffees so exciting to try. Each cup is an adventure in taste.
Traceable Origins
With UK speciality coffees, you often know exactly where they come from, like a specific farm. This traceability is a big deal in the speciality coffee online market.
Why Choose Our Speciality Coffee Beans?
Each of our coffees is special, filled with rich flavours from around the world. What unites them is pure, uncompromised quality.
We carefully select the quality coffee beans in the UK, following strict standards to ensure perfection. Every batch is checked for taste, texture, and aroma, ensuring a clean, smooth cup every time.
- Toxin Free
- Lab certified
- 100% Arabica beans
- Clean & Healthy
Health and Quality Come First
Your health matters to us. That’s why we work only with the top 5% of coffee farms worldwide. Our coffee is free from mould, mycotoxins, and harmful pesticides.
We pay 25% more for our organic coffee beans, helping farmers improve their methods and protect the planet. This care ensures every bean is picked at its ripest and processed correctly for amazing flavour.
Award-Winning Coffee, Delivered to Your Door
Our passion for excellence has earned us top awards, like ‘Best Speciality Coffee Company’ by SME London and ‘Best Healthy Coffee’ by The Independent. Searching for “speciality coffee near me”? We ship across the UK, bringing the finest coffee straight to your home.
Specialty Coffee Questions.
The good news is yes! There are many studies available that demonstrate the positive impact of coffee on your health, particuarly when it comes to antioxidants which are disease fighting.
Read our blog to learn more about health benefits to coffee.
Balance coffee is absolutely fair trade (as every product should be).While some of the coffee that we use may not always be “certified” organic, many of the coffee farms we buy from are in fact organic but cannot afford to pay for the certification.In fact, we pay a higher price than most to help support farmers’ livelihoods whilst incentivising them to re-invest in order to create a more sustainable supply of coffee for the future.
At Balance, we’re fresher than fresh.
All Balance Coffees bags are sealed with a heat seal immediately after we bag the coffee just 24-48h after roasting.
Due to our quality packaging and fast delivery, your coffee will arrive as fresh as the day it was roasted.
At Balance Coffee we predominantly roast a medium profile for the majority of coffees apart from our single origins which are generally a touch lighter.
Professional Cuppers have described our coffee as “balanced, with a very clean flavour.
Our coffees all score above 80 points, which means the coffee you sip is not only 100% ethically sourced and sustainable, but also extremely rare – not everyone can get their hands on it.
Yes – they are regularly tested at origin during the processing process.
The farmers take pride in the picking and sorting process to ensure no bad beans are selected.
Yes! Balance Coffee Decaf is called Halcyon and it’s super tasty.
If you don’t know already, speciality coffee beans are the way to go.
Ground coffee works well, but you’ll really taste the difference with whole bean coffee by grinding your coffee fresh using a coffee bean grinder.
If you’re into a milder taste or have a caffeine intolerance you’ll be happy to know there are many options available including specialty decaf coffee and lions mane mushroom coffee.
We source coffees from so many countries across the globe however, predominantly these coffees are sourced from the common coffee growing regions, otherwise known as the coffee belt.
Examples include Africa, Asia, South and Central America.
We have a great relationship with our farmers and co-ops, and are confident they meet all of our selection criteria for the highest quality green coffee beans.
Specialty coffee is the term used to describe the highest possible grade of coffee available.
Exceptional standards of sourcing, processing and brewing produces the most noticable results in terms of flavour.
The speciality coffee grading method is also known as the ‘’Brazilian Cupping Method’’. This means all coffee is graded on a scale of 0-100, 100 being the highest. And guess where speciality coffee lies on the scale?
Any coffee scoring 80 or above gets official classification.
The distinction between the two terms are quite significant.
Commodity coffee is grown for mass production and uses harmful chemicals like pesticides to increase production capacity. Studies show this to be harmful for human consumption.
Organic coffee and speciality grade remain the safest coffee grades for your health.
Currently we are only shipping within the UK & Ireland.
We hope to soon expand internationally.
We use Royal Mail to deliver coffee to your door.
Standard delivery is 48 hours and Express delivery within 24 hours.
Delivery details will be provided in your confirmation email.