Beans, gear and good finds. Every Friday.
Edition No. 15
30 October 2026
Shopping region
Local availability, prices and fresh coffee sources.
The Friday Edit
The new regional edit, every Friday. Nothing else.
Option-O’s two-stage grinder leads an Asia-Pacific edit that moves from Australian-roasted naturals to two washed coffees roasted in Singapore, Korean brewer geometry and playful objects for daily coffee rituals.
Option-O · Grinders
A 29 kg, two-stage grinder platform pairing 100 mm conical and 102 mm flat burrs—or two flat stages—with independent speed control.
The GDS is ambitious even by specialist-grinder standards: two independently driven stages let a conical burr pre-break before a 102 mm flat finish, or run flat-on-flat, with very low RPM at the first stage.
A short regional edit of fresh coffees worth brewing now.
ProcessNatural
Code Black Coffee · Coffee beans
Jabanto, Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia · Natural · Filter · berries, toffee, black tea, dates
A new-release Yirgacheffe natural that moves from berries and toffee into black tea and dates, giving fruit a darker, composed finish.
Process96-hour anaerobic natural
Code Black Coffee · Coffee beans
Finca Higueronal, Los Santos, Costa Rica · 96-hour anaerobic natural · Filter · grape, prunes, cocoa bitters, hazelnut
A 96-hour anaerobic F1 lot dried for 18 days, with grape and prune sweetness pulled back by cocoa bitters and hazelnut.
ProcessFully washed
ProcessFully washed
PPP Coffee · Coffee beans
Pomahuaca, Cajamarca, Peru · Fully washed · Filter · apricot, orange, oolong tea
Apricot and orange give way to an oolong-tea finish in this fully washed Peruvian coffee, offering a gentler companion to Kamwangi’s brighter floral profile.
The objects making brewing more precise, more enjoyable or simply better looking.
Chye Seng Huat Hardware · Accessories & oddities
A buildable miniature of Singapore’s Chye Seng Huat Hardware coffee shop.
A charmingly specific piece of coffee architecture: the object preserves a recognisable Singapore shop rather than merely borrowing café aesthetics.
UFO Coffee Tools · Manual brewing
A Korean-made ceramic brewer with an 80-degree interior, recessed air channels and competition-focused thermal stability.
The wide 80-degree wall and recessed air channels try to combine conical clarity with less sensitivity to dose depth and stalling, while the graded ceramic body prioritises thermal...
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