Nowadays quite hard to find 250g bags going for under RM40, unless it's a blend. RM45-55 is quite typical for single origins. I myself tend to stick to those that are priced around RM0.2 per gram.

Tempting. Do they have an online webshop, or did you buy yours by walk-in to their cafe at Citta Mall?

Yup, ok, thanks! How was the blend..taste good?

hai sifu sifu sekalian,
been addicted to filter coffee for years,
all these while using rhino hand grinder for daily 1-2 cups,
recently feels tired of grind like robot and wish to upgrade to machine...
any cheap good worthy machine to recommend?
daily usage, 1-2 times, each time 1 cup only, mainly filter, once in a blue moon moka pot
please dont recommend those chop bean machine....
personally 've had a look on wellhome pro zd10, cost bout rm370+-
any review bout it? or other machine at similar price range?

tight budget tho,
else i would choose to become grinding robot with comandante
anyway thanks for the reco, will have a look on it.
basically knowing not much bout machine grinder, for wellhomepro zd10, that price is just too attractive to me

price seems good too, papapalheta selling @ rm760

found this when googling ard,


        looks so nice like a deco, but the postage from us can kill

Thx for the input! Dunno where I got this mis-conception, but I used to think that espresso trumps french press when it comes to coffee. Glad to know I am wrong!

A good espresso will leave a very long lasting taste finish at the back of the throat, much more than drinking a filter 

This can't be further from the truth! Usually what I would do is sip, and then teka. Once done teka, i read the desc. Then i see if i can locate the taste profile.

Most of the time, either teka tak sama, or cannot teka at all! Desc say berries la, earthy notes la, etc... taste the same to me!

At this point, i can appreciate the aroma, but taste memang cannot, except for citrus-y and grass-y, lol

Will try your recommendation, and start from there

What's their price point?

Yes, the term single origin describes the origin of the coffee from which farm/area and not necessarily by roast level
That being said, let me share some things about origin

There are multiple ways coffee is bagged up and delivered to roasters and can vary the definition of "Single Origin" depending or individuals
Take note that even on a single farm/same farmer, it's possible for the farmer to try to plant a different varietal or apply pruning/fertilizers/etc to different trees on different parts of the farm

Hence:

1. Microlots - Same farm but only a subset of cherries from certain plot/trees/harvest/varietal of the farm. fun fact: Rubens Ghardelli wins Italian Brewers Cup using coffee from only a SINGLE TREE
2. Single Estate - Cherries from all over the farm but a single farm only (could be mixed varietals)
3. Single COOP - A Cooperative that group up the harvest of multiple smaller farmers
4. Single Country - Collection of coffee from all over the country - Typical for Brazil/Colombia (would you still consider this single origin?). Argument is a blend is usually a mixture of multiple countries and therefore a single origin should be single country?
5. Heirloom Varietal - Usually coffees from Ethiopia are Heirloom varietals - meaning natural mutation and wild coffee plants. Farmers don't even know which tree is which varietal. A single farm may have 10-15 varietals going on and nobody would know better!

Love to hear everyone's thoughts on this but in general, it's possible to see different colors in a single bag because of the above reasons except for microlots - smallest of smallest definition

Anyways, what matters most is the taste - how it tasted for you?

Thanks for the info re: pricing. Looking at the photo, I don't know about you, but I wouldn't be impressed/happy with roasted beans that look like that. For one, there appears to be quite a number of very darkly roasted beans mixed with some obviously underdeveloped/too-lightly-roasted ones. Some of the former looks positively burnt. For RM50 (per 250g bag?), I expect a proper, even, uniform roast.

hi guys..i wanna ask something about coffee grinder..i just got myself a eureka mignon...previously i was using the 600n china made grinder.

Is it normal for coffee grinder to have static issue? i noticed the static from mignon will somehow prevent the coffee coming out from the grinder...normally i will need to load 20g beans to get 17g grind coffee ...

i never had this problem with my 600n grinder..btw im using a normal supermarket beans from lavazza.

Yup to me 3g is alot..maybe got something to do with humidity..because i like to store my beans in the fridge since it takes me almost 1.5 months to finish 1 kg bag. i believe it can maintain the freshness compare storing at room temperature.

i was thinking to buy vacuum container last time but then, i ended up using a sealing clip.

anyway which vacuum container do u recommend is reliable? i can see a lot selling in lazada.

I was replying to Harddisk actually, who was asking about Vacuvin. I have used something like it for (drumroll please) storing opened bottles of wine, but have yet to try for coffee beans.

In principle, I guess you place your beans into an empty glass bottle and use the Vacuvin stopper and suck out all the air.

I keep my beans in Greek yoghurt containers because (coffee snob mode full on) I roast my own (coffee snob mode full off).

the price for 500gm container around rm180 exclude tax & shipping from singapore...do u feel lazy everytime u need to pump when u take out the beans?

Hey I tried to descale the kettle with baking soda and natrium bikarbonate. After clean the scales go away.

But after boiling water the shadow of scales comes back.

I did try vinegar too. Is it because I didn't descale long time?