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Health & Wellness

Exploring & explaining the trends shaping coffee

Leaders

Get up-to-speed on key issues and topics, in less time than it takes to drink a coffee

Explainers

Research, legislative and indsutry updates summarised for coffee people.  

Briefings

Tips for coffee people and businesses

Guides

Proposals for tackling industry challenges

Ideas

Perspectives and opinion from across the community

Hot Takes

Archive of all articles from across United Baristas

Articles archive

One page summaries of key information on important topics from across United Baristas. 

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Coffee businesses are people businesses. Managing people is a learnt set of skills. This collection compiles tips for hiring and managing coffee people.

Building & Managing Teams

Coffee is both contributes to global warming and is impacted by climate change. This collection compiles articles exploring causes and impacts from crop to cup.

Coffee's Carbon Footprint

Working in coffee is dynamic, engaging and full of possibilities. This collection compiles articles to help people navigate life and work in coffee.

Life & Work in Coffee

Running a coffee shop can be challenging, but is ultimately a rewarding job. This collection compiles articles for managers and owners.

Managing Coffee Shops

Coffee’s scale, reach and connections enables us to play an important role in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals.

Sustainable Development
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Exploring how the industry can better communicate speciality coffee’s distinct and vibrant flavours.

Communicating Coffee's Distinctive Flavours

Exploring how specialty coffee can cut its carbon emissions, from crop to cup. We want to understand how the industry can play its part in reaching net zero.

Cutting Coffee's Carbon Footprint
Exploring how coffee become more sustainable. We want to understand how specialty coffee can better align itself with the Sustainable Development Goals.
Making Specialty Coffee More Sustainable

What is coffee’s carbon footprint? What are the most significant contributors? We want to understand the industry’s emissions from crop to cup.

Understanding Coffee's Carbon Footprint

Mini-series exploring the challenges specialty chains face as they grow. We want to understand why some coffee shop businesses survive when others fail.

Why are Specialty Coffee Chains Failing?
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Browse Articles and Ideas with audio or video.

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Latest news from United Baristas.

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Extend your range with a series of moves designed specifically for coffee people in week three of Barista Yoga

Barista Yoga – Week 2

Learn more moves that help baristas and roasters to stretch and strengthen with Erin O’Conner

Barista Yoga – Week 1

Join us in the first of five routines designed by Erin O'Conner to help baristas increase their mobility and ease their aches

Easing into it

Erin is the social media manager for Caffeine magazine, and a qualified yoga instructor. She explains how it has improved her wellbeing and how she's now sharing her passion with others.

Latest Articles

Ideas into action

Let’s meet for coffee at Ensemble

United Baristas is transforming a coffee shop in King's Cross, London. It'll host our events and be a testbed for ideas.
Tasty, tasty coffee

Introducing the Coffee Tasting Framework

United Baristas wants to kickstart a community-wide conversation on how we can better communicate coffee’s distinctive flavours. Better tasting notes are fundamental for the industry’s viable future. More accurate communication can empower consumers and support specialty coffee’s price premium.

Rock star

Ashley Dawes is a key account manager at Union, and is discovering new ways to scale new heights

Being a good sport

Camilla Morgan is the UK sales manager for Victoria Arduino and spends much of her professional life on the road, and her personal time competing in triathlons
Coffee Tasting
Coffee Tasting Framework

Identify & communicate each coffee's distinctive flavours

Discover how to identify a coffee's defining characteristic, understand why some coffees are tastier than others, and recognise the coffee drinkers that will find it appealing.
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