FellowOpus Conical Burr Coffee Grinder - All Purpose Electric - Espresso Grinder with 41 Settings for Drip, French Press, & Cold Brew - Matte Black

I wasn't sure about this purchase after seeing a review or two on Youtube that called it cheap and plastic. Well, it does have some plastic components but it feels exceptionally well made and nowhere in the vicinity of cheap. I'm glad I took a chance. I've had only very positive results from Fellow products in my home and this grinder is right up there with the best of them. Somehow, my excellent coffee tastes even better now, too. :)

I am completely in love with this grinder. I've had it for about a month now and have enjoyed every second of it. I typically make single serve, pour over coffee and the Opus is extremely easy to use in that scenario. Just load some beans, press the button, and let it work. It's quiet, easy to clean, and has minimal retention. Changing the grind size is easy enough when I want to use my AeroPress, although I haven't fiddled with the espresso options yet. Overall, I just couldn't recommend this grinder enough. It's gorgeous looking my apartment, easy to use—pretty much exactly what I wanted. Another great product by Fellow.

I've used the same Baratza Virtuoso grinder for over a decade. Hundreds of pounds of coffee have been ground with very little issues and all were very easy to fix because it's designed to be serviceable. It has its shortcomings, grind consistency being one of them, but you can work around it, especially since it generally will allow some coffee through that's slightly larger then desired. Not a dealbreaker. But when it started getting loud I knew it needed some parts replaced but I decided to "upgrade" my grinder instead. Here's where the Opus comes in.Researching options I kept reading that the more expensive Fellow Ode grinder was very prone to clogging and unclogging things was a lot of work. Many said it happened every couple weeks. Oddly I wasn't seeing as many complaining about the Opus so I opted for this. When first setup it seemed to be a great looking grinder but that was short lived.I measured out 50g of medium roast beans for a partial pot of electric coffee maker coffee, set the grinder to 8 which is in the middle of where they recommend per the inside of the grinder lid (props to them for the neat chart), and told it to grind. . . Grinder turned on but the beans weren't feeding down to the burrs. . . Once I helped them along it started to grind. When I removed the catch bin it was immediately obvious the coffee was ground too fine. I tried brewing it anyways and the basket ran over, leaving grounds in the coffee. Let's try this again.I pulled the lid off the top of the grinder and the bean load bin had chafe all over in it. The top lid creates an air tight(ish) seal when you slide it on so upon removal it pulled the lightweight chafe into the bin. Cleaned it out, poured beans in, adjusted the grind to 9 which is the coarsest they recommend for my coffee method, and put the lid back on. But now the air tight lid forced trapped coffee grounds out the bottom of the grinder, all over the place. . . Right in their description they say "mess-free mornings" and "anti-static technology" yet I'm not seeing either here. Cleaned things up and ground the coffee beans and immediately noticed there barely a difference in the grind, still being much too fine.Tried again with a grind setting of 10, and again at 11. Even at 11 (the coarsest it goes) the grind was too fine for the brew method even though this is the setting for cold brew, what should be a very coarse grind. And I didn't give up here. I proceeded to use the grinder for a week, trying to figure out what's going on, and as time went by I couldn't get a good grind but did notice the grind time was getting longer and longer, and it seemed as though the grind was getting finer. . . It was clogging, just like Ode reviews complained about. It was taking 4 minutes to grind 50g of medium roast beans- I can hand grind faster than that. We're done with this grinder.Before boxing it back up I ran a little test for others to see what I'm dealing with. In the pictures the left dish is a grind setting of 5, the middle is 7.5, and the right is 10. Very little difference, especially considering 5 is the middle grind setting but was so fine that it's espresso fineness, and 10 is the coarse cold brew setting.All that being said, avoid this grinder. Other reviewers give it praise but that's not what we saw. The Encore that replaced this (for less money) worked right out of the box, with the grinder set to the recommended setting and we finally had a good pot of electric brewer coffee.

I love this grinder! I mostly brew espresso with my Gaggia Classic Pro, so I'm not in the weeds of all the intricacy that can go into making high quality espresso, but this grinder is perfect for my coffee situation, expertise, capability and aesthetic. The settings and container allow for me to quickly switch my grind size to my dialed in numbers for either my espresso machine, drip machine or pour over. The cleaning is a breeze and the Fellow product line overall is full of consistently high quality, solid and well designed coffee drinking/making essentials!

I like the Fellow design style. It's simple, and unobtrusive.I use the grinder for pour-over, AeroPress, and Moka Pot coffee making. Adjusting the grinder to the suggested appropriate settings works out well. Whether or not the Opus really gives a usable espresso grind is left for others to comment on. That's the good news.The receiver cup's somewhat problematic. Fellow's Ode grinder uses a strong magnet to hold the cup in place. For some reason, the Opus uses a weaker magnet than can be easily overcome, meaning the discharge from the grinder may or may not all go into the cup. Maybe this is nit-picking, but why Fellow used a magnet that doesn't firmly hold the cup place escapes me.While the Ode cup has baffles, to direct pouring the ground coffee, that upset at least one YT reviewer, the Opus cup uses flats in the interior to direct pouring. That works - mostly, A ring is fitted to the top of the cup, although I'm not sure I get why it's used. Does Fellow expect ground coffee to billow out of the cup? Beats me. Anyway, the ring has to come off to pour out the ground coffee.Over time, debris from beans builds up both on the actual burrs, and on the sloped floor of the grinder hopper. Someone came up with a silicon bellows that's supposed to blow the debris through the grinder. Don't bother, it doesn't happen. Because the grinder and receiver cup are plastic, "static cling" is the big culprit here. Plan on misting beans with the least bit of water to manage this problem. Keep in mind "more is >not< better".Because of the plastic construction, and the need to take the hopper off for effective cleaning, I'm not sure how this will impact the grinder's service life. The same is true for the adjustment for grind size. There are definite clicks while adjusting the fineness. Again the question of wear and longevity comes to mind.The grinder has only one power control, a push button on the base of the grinder. Push it once, and the motor runs for 30 seconds, which should be more than enough for small batches (i.e., 1-3 cups). Run time can be increased with multiple button presses. The motor can be stopped by pushing the button while the motor's running.At least one YT review objected to the Ode grinder's beeping. It's easy enough to figure out when all the beans in a batch are ground; the motor speeds up noticeably. The same's true for the Opus - and it doesn't beep to announce the obvious. Or does it? For some reason, when the Opus is plugged in, it beeps once. So far, I haven't heard any beeps before, during, or after grinding. But any time I plug the Opus back in, it beeps. Huh?In the main, I'm pleased with the Opus. It's adjustable to different grinds, it works without significant annoyances, and I suspect it'll last for quite a while. It's the niggling details, such as the weak magnet, and the problems with clearing out debris that keep the Opus from a fifth star.A caveat about browsing on the Fellow website. If you look at a particular item on the website. expect to get at least a few IMHO nagging emails about "are you ready to buy [whatever]".