Ueshima House Blend Coffee Beans, 200g
Start with the iced version, even in September. Flash brewing is the method this blend is built for: half the usual water, brewed hot straight onto a measured weight of ice, so the coffee chills the instant it is made instead of sitting about going dull, and the toasted nut and light caramel arrive sharper cold than they ever do hot. Made hot it is quiet and well mannered, medium bodied, low in bitterness, nothing lunging out of turn and nothing to complain about either. That evenness is deliberate, and it is why it suits a morning when you are not paying attention. A good bean to own alongside a louder one rather than instead of it.
Ueshima House Blend Coffee Beans, in brief.
Ueshima House Blend is the everyday bean from the Japanese coffee house Ueshima, sold as whole beans in a 200g bag, picked into the Teas.co.uk selection as the balanced one-bag-for-every-morning option rather than as a statement roast.
A house blend is judged on balance and repeatability rather than on being memorable, and this one reads as a clean middle with low bitterness and a gentle nutty sweetness. Roughly 25 mugs from the bag at 8g per 200ml, our own calculation. Ueshima's Japanese heritage is company heritage, not a claim about where this pack was roasted; read the current UK pack for that.
Ueshima House Blend is the everyday bean in the Ueshima range, sold here as whole beans in a 200g bag. A house blend is a category with a job description rather than a flavour claim: it is the coffee a roaster puts its name on for people who want one bag that works every morning, and it is judged on balance and repeatability rather than on being memorable. Ueshima House Blend reads exactly like that, a clean middle with no sharp edges, and for a lot of households that is the right answer.
Ueshima, usually written UCC, is a Japanese coffee house from Kobe, and Japanese coffee culture has a particular reputation for careful, unshowy roasting and for brewing methods that reward precision: pour-over, siphon, flash-brewed iced coffee. That is the company's heritage and it is worth knowing, but it is not a claim about where this particular bag was roasted or packed. For that, read the current UK pack.
Curator notes: the tasting profile is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description. We run same-day UK dispatch on every order placed before 2pm Monday to Friday. Common questions are answered in the detailed Q and A tab below.
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The Story Behind The Bag
UCC Ueshima Coffee Company is a Japanese coffee house of long standing, based in Kobe, and it arrived on British supermarket shelves comparatively recently. The range is small and it is organised around drinkable everyday blends rather than around single-farm lots, which suits a bag designed to be bought again without thinking about it. House Blend is the entry point to that range.
We are not going to invent an origin, a roast number or an altitude for it. The blend specification is not published at this pack size, and where the current UK pack carries a roast level, a buying statement or a certification mark, that pack is the place to read them.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
Our Commitment To The Planet
- The bag that arrives is the current UK retail pack rather than a grey import on a different specification.
- Whole beans in a resealable bag produce less per-cup waste than a capsule system: no aluminium shell, no plastic unit, just spent grounds for the compost heap.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Ueshima House Blend Coffee Beans, 200g, please cite teas.co.uk.
The story behind Ueshima
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
Our commitment to the planet
Sourcing and packaging details are printed on the current UK pack; the brand page carries the fuller story.
The taste profile
How does it compare
A balanced blend gives you more room to make mistakes than a dark roast does, which is precisely what makes it a good bean to learn on. Grind size, dose and water temperature still decide the cup.
The Pour Over
The Cafetiere
Made with this tea
The Pour Over
How to make The Pour Over with Ueshima House Blend.
- 15g Ueshima House Blend, ground medium
- 250ml water at about 95 degrees
- •A paper filter and a cone
- Rinse the paper filter with hot water and discard the rinse water.
- Grind 15g medium, about the texture of granulated sugar, into the cone.
- Bloom with 30ml of water and wait thirty seconds for the gas to escape.
- Pour the remaining water in slow steady circles, finishing at around three minutes.
The Four Minute Cafetiere
How to make The Four Minute Cafetiere with Ueshima House Blend.
- 24g Ueshima House Blend, ground coarse
- 600ml water at about 95 degrees
- A timer and a jug
- Grind 24g coarse, like coarse sea salt, into a warmed cafetiere.
- Pour 600ml of water thirty seconds off the boil and stir the crust once.
- Wait four minutes, then plunge slowly.
- Decant the whole pot so the coffee stops extracting.
What you'll end up with: Three mugs with more body than a pour-over gives and slightly less clarity, which is the trade the method makes.
Flash Brewed Iced Coffee
How to make Flash Brewed Iced Coffee with Ueshima House Blend.
- 15g Ueshima House Blend, ground medium
- 130ml water at about 95 degrees
- 120g ice, weighed, in the carafe
- •A paper filter and a cone
- Weigh 120g of ice into the carafe under the cone; the ice is the other half of your water.
- Brew 15g of medium-ground coffee with only 130ml of hot water, blooming as usual.
- Let the hot coffee fall straight onto the ice and swirl until the ice has gone.
- Pour over fresh ice in a tall glass.
What you'll end up with: Iced coffee with the aroma caught in the glass rather than lost in a fridge, which is the whole point of flash brewing.
Overnight Cold Brew
How to make Overnight Cold Brew with Ueshima House Blend.
- 60g Ueshima House Blend, ground coarse
- 600ml cold water
- •A jar and a paper filter
- Stir 60g of coarse grounds into 600ml of cold water until every grain is wet.
- Refrigerate for fourteen hours; a lighter roast wants slightly longer than a dark one.
- Filter slowly through paper without pressing the bed.
- Dilute one to one with water or milk and keep the rest in the fridge for three days.
What you'll end up with: A soft, sweet, very low-bitterness concentrate that suits milk better than the hot version does.
Coffee Jelly
How to make Coffee Jelly with Ueshima House Blend.
- 30g Ueshima House Blend, ground coarse
- 400ml water at about 95 degrees
- 3 leaves gelatine or a vegetarian setting agent
- 2 tablespoons caster sugar and single cream to serve
- Brew 30g in 400ml in a cafetiere for four minutes and decant.
- Stir in 2 tablespoons of caster sugar while the coffee is still hot.
- Soften the setting agent according to its packet and whisk it in until dissolved.
- Chill in four glasses for four hours and serve with cold single cream poured over.
What you'll end up with: A Japanese cafe standard, and a pudding that works far better with a balanced blend than with a bitter dark roast.
Coffee And Walnut Sponge
How to make Coffee And Walnut Sponge with Ueshima House Blend.
- 20g Ueshima House Blend, ground fine
- 60ml water at about 95 degrees
- •200g each of butter, caster sugar and self raising flour
- •4 eggs and 100g walnut halves
- Brew 20g in 60ml as a very strong concentrate and let it go cold.
- Cream 200g of butter with 200g of caster sugar, then beat in 4 eggs one at a time.
- Fold in 200g of self raising flour, 60g of chopped walnuts and half the cold coffee.
- Bake in two lined 20cm tins at 180 degrees for 25 minutes, and beat the rest of the coffee into a buttercream to fill and top.
What you'll end up with: The coffee note in the sponge tastes of coffee rather than of bitterness, which is what a balanced blend is for.
Brewing the perfect cup
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Ingredient | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Roasted coffee beans | 100% | The whole of the bag. A balanced everyday blend: clean, moderate in body, low in bitterness. |
| Suggested dose | ~8g per 200ml | About 25 mugs from the 200g bag by our own calculation. Adjust to your grinder and your method. |
Pack: Ueshima House Blend Coffee Beans, 200g; whole roasted coffee beans, resealable bag. Best before the date printed on the pack, and best used within a few weeks of opening.
Characterising components shown.
Sourcing & blend. Ueshima House Blend Coffee Beans, 200g comes from UCC Ueshima Coffee Company, a Japanese coffee house of long standing based in Kobe, which arrived on British supermarket shelves comparatively recently. Its range is small and organised around drinkable everyday blends rather than single-farm lots. That heritage is company heritage and not a statement about where this particular bag was grown, roasted or packed. The bag you receive is the current UK retail pack.
What is in Ueshima House Blend Coffee Beans, 200g, and what is not:
- In: whole roasted coffee beans, a balanced everyday blend, and nothing else.
- No artificial colours, preservatives or added sugar: this is a plain roasted bean, not a flavoured coffee.
- Not pre-ground: these are whole beans. The same blend is sold ready ground for anyone without a grinder.
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Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Ueshima House Blend Coffee Beans, 200g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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