I heard of our local coffee produced in Sabah called Sabarica. May I know if anybody tried it before?

you printed it yourself? does it come with any cover/holder when its not in use? Roughly when your needle will arrive?

I don't have the expertise to properly describe the profile, but simply put: EXTREMELY NICE.

A perennial favourite. I haven't met anyone who doesn't like it.

I tried the Sabarica roasted by Supernomal Coffee Roasters. It was nice. Recommended.

Anybody tried buying Niche Zero from UK? What's the total cost like?

I actually tried a few of the SOL coffee, yes, its not tat high high grade specialty bean, sometimes I felt tat there is only subtle difference between diff beans,
not tat pronounce. but I still cant really tell all those fancy taste notes, so I think its still ok for me to get by my day to day drink requirement for the price.
I've tried quite a numbers of coffee in these 2-3years in my coffee journey, from beanshipper to ikea dark roast, from rm100+ 200gm bean I got from taiwan
to nearby local roastery. sometime makes me wonder if it worth the extra if my taste bud cant really tell the fairly ok 1 with the very expensive 1.

I did tried SOL coffee, and mainly use it for espresso brew with milk. Single origin specialty can be hefty, I tried Esmeralda Geisha bean on V60 brew, the taste was totally different.

However back to this coffee selection, everyone has different taste bud, expensive specialty that is good for you does not mean it is good for other. I only trust my taste bud which suit my preferences.

I am sharing my coffee preferences journey for the past 2 years. Below are my preference for espresso brew with milk for daily consumption:
1. SOL El-Salvador Blend - this is the only blend I like, I tried the other blend but doesn't like the taste.
2. ForestCloud Lunarfall - I tried more than 2kg of beans from their Lunarfall blend, never failed me. But one thing I notice their bean loose their taste after 1 weeks of opening, I had to change my grinder setting after a week. I like their 250G packaging that allow you consume what you can during the 2 weeks period.
3. Sin Boon Kee Arabica Signature Blend - SBK historically famous for their penang kopi o. I was hesitated to try, but in the end get myself a pack. I was surprised by their caramel taste. Nevertheless, I tried using this for moka pot brew was well and it taste great if you like heavy body and bitter note.

These 3 are my preference when coming to espresso brew with milk. Don't get me wrong, I did try others like Mister Coffee Arabica bean, and their Espresso Super Bar bean as well. Occationally I did try Big Tree Dark Roast, JWC Caramel PopCorn as well.

My coffee routine doesn't stick to one type of brand and roast, it depends on my mood and roast availability as well. I would prefer to go for V60 brew, if I were to try out the specialty coffee.

If I am experimenting or dial in the machine, I normally will goes for those average bean like Mister Coffee, SOL or SBK.

End of days, your taste bud matter and good quality bean with good roaster definitely helps.

ben_ang cheewooi
Yeah no doubt at the end of the day, as long as you're satisfied, no one should tell you what beans to buy (or not buy).

I was just addressing another guy's comment about the pricing, and to point out that there are many grades of beans.

To be fair, the general Malaysian public who likes coffee usually prefers "kao" coffee with milk, which means darker roast will suit the taste more. Hence, average brands like Mister Coffee or SOL still taste good (for the preference above) because the roast level is relatively dark enough to cover any bean or origin defects.

For myself I am used to medium and medium-light roast beans and the quality difference is much more distinct.

But at the end of the day, great specialty beans is not cheap, not everyone wants to pay RM3-5 per espresso just for the beans cost alone.

Thanks for sharing. Just got the 0.4x75mm needles shipped from china and manage to get the needles slot into the 3D printed WDT tool.

The DIY WDT tool looks promising. Pretty excited to try it out tomorrow.

nice work

I am thinking to get an espresso machine for home now that we are working from home so much. I am considering the Breville BES870. What other options are there? Size is a concern as I have limited counter space. Not an advanced coffee drinker. however, I have one cup on average everyday.

Nice setup, about the SSP unimodal burrs vs SSP High uniformity burrs, which is mainly for espresso? Lamarsa website indicate high uniformity for espresso?

both same for espresso

too widely spaced... gonna be hard to stir/poke

good grinder + flair

Anyone recently bought DF64 ? J Coffee told me the "updated" version with the new font is only for European version.. Kinda weird?

Any gemilai gang over here?

Bought SOL coffee but still waiting for my crm3605. Recently my friend gave me brand "arnab" from johor to try it out.

More to learn from all sifus here

So glad I found this thread.

I love drinking flat whites and usually get it from a cafe near my office. Now that I work from home a lot more often, I have been making instant coffee in the morning. Been thinking of trying to make my own flat white at home but don't want to invest too heavily in a high end machine.

I came across the nespresso machine which boasts up to 15-19 bars of pressure and costs a fraction of the price. I could even get those reusable pods and fill it with different coffee beans until I find one I like.

My question is, how much more worse is the espresso pull from a nespresso machine compared to the ones that are being discussed here? Is the nespresso gonna give me super subpar flat whites?

Overall, nespresso and espresso dont share much of the same property except that they're both produced from coffee beans. They will not taste the same, but with much less work using nespresso. I wont say that it is subpar, you can get pods from good roasters and it will taste good for consumption. But home brewing with espresso machine means you need to enjoy making coffee, not only drinking them.

If you are keen to learn more on home brewing, maybe start with simple coffee making like aeropress/v60/moka pot but they're consumed best without milk. Each will give diff kind of taste but will be a lot cheaper than getting an espresso machine.

if price is known, most people choose expensive ones. however, in blind test, most people couldn't distinguish.

it is not hard to conduct blind test at home; 3 types of beans for 5 cups of coffee.


This post has been edited by icemanfx: Jul 11 2021, 11:15 AM