Opus

You only have 1 choice out if these .. the opus is the only one that will grind fine enough for espresso The ode is for drip and pour over

Flat burrs seem to bring out the fruit notes more. I have an opus, ceado, and vario.

🤣🤣 after a while I learned to recognize the difference. To me, I taste much more sweetness on the flat burrs.

I'd reccomended against the Fellow opus, I became so frustrated with the retention that I went to a hand grinder and haven't looked back

A little two-cents as someone who picked up an Opus a few months ago. Price was keeping me in that $200 range, so I was looking at the Opus, the Encore, and the DF54. Had an 1zpresso JX break and needed a replacement quickly that could multipurpose and was electric (was hoping to pick up a Flair for espresso at Christmas and was tired of years of hand grinding). I would say I’m on the higher end of intermediate rather than a beginner. I think the DF54 is, from the sounds of it, the best of those three grinders, but I’d read that there was some skepticism about customer support. I also wasn’t sure if I wanted to fall down the rabbit hole of changing out burr sets for espresso and filter. Lance Hedrick actually has a video on the Opus where he blind tastes coffees against the Encore and is surprised to find he prefers the coffee from the Opus. That was probably what swayed me toward the Opus. I’ve also been happy with Fellow products—Stagg, Prismo, Carter mug—and their stuff was on sale when I needed to put in an order. The retention is unfortunate but not deal breaking for me. I take it apart and clean it once a week (it seems to want to hold on to around .5g of coffee no matter what). As others have mentioned it definitely doesn’t feel as high end, but that’s okay with me. I brew pour over, aeropress, and, most days, steep and release with a Clever and I’ve been getting very enjoyable cups of coffee.

Listen to everyone. **DO NOT GET AN OXO** It was my 1st grinder. Would not grind fine enough for espresso. Opus grinds fine & consistent -but makes a big mess & you have to constantly spank it. Consider the DF54.

I modded mine to be stepless pretty quickly after I bought it, and I've never looked back. Aside from that, I've been quite happy with it. It does a good job, it doesn't take up too much counter space, and it's not too loud.

I just started getting into espresso so my choice is from a complete beginner so take it with a grain of salt. I recently bought the fellow opus. It's about $200 and it has been amazing so far. My wife got me an at home espresso class at a local coffee shop. They went over everything and told us we definitely need a good grinder and they recommended it to me. So far it's been amazing. It grinds to whatever style of coffee you want or need and it's really easy to adjust. With just the preset grinder settings I can do espresso no problem and easily shut to cold brew by just twisting the top. I haven't had to mess with the micro bur settings to do anything yes but it's super easy to do so if you want to dial in even more.

I had this for a short time before i returned it. The retention can be overcome with some after market bellows. You can use the lid to bellow as lance showed but it’s a bit awkward. Never really understood the micro/macro adjustment. But there is an app that shows the proper settings in and out.

Gave the Fellow Opus a Go, got it on sale @170. Seems to be a jack of all trades but especially good at filtered coffee which is what I want it for. Tried it out already and it seems pretty good. Biggest drawback is retention.

Habe genau dafür eine Fellow Opus, absolut top