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Norm Micro Roastery

Norm Micro Roastery roasts small batches behind its Church Street Ghaut cafe, the micro-roastery that seeded Penang's specialty coffee wave.

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Feeka Coffee Roasters

Feeka Coffee Roasters serves its own roasts from a leafy, sunlit shophouse on Jalan Mesui in Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur, brewed for clarity and balance.

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VCR

VCR opened as a cafe on Jalan Galloway in Kuala Lumpur in October 2013 and now roasts in-house, with chocolate roasts for milk and fruity ones for black.

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Artisan Roast

Artisan Roast supplies its Taman Tun Dr Ismail coffee bar from its own roastery in Sentul, a name written up among KL's early third-wave roasters in 2014.

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Afloat Coffee Roaster

Afloat Coffee Roaster opened its Bukit Jalil micro roastery in 2022, sorting its own beans into three tasting tiers for Kuala Lumpur drinkers.

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Kopenhagen Coffee

Kopenhagen Coffee built its own roastery into its Bangsar cafe in Kuala Lumpur, roasting lots from Colombia and Ethiopia on a Giesen roaster.

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Lunabar Coffee

Lunabar Coffee roasts under its own Tongue Mission label in the back room of a plant-filled Clove Hall house, Penang's quietest roastery-cafe.

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The Hub Coffee Roaster

The Hub Coffee Roaster runs a pink micro roaster in Taman Overseas Union, Kuala Lumpur, working through more than 40 bean varieties each year.

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103 Coffee

103 Coffee sources and roasts its own beans for a Chow Kit hand brew bar in Kuala Lumpur, spanning single origin lots from five different countries.

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Curio Coffee Roaster

Curio Coffee Roaster keeps its micro roaster at the back of a Rivercity cafe on Jalan Ipoh in Kuala Lumpur, next to yoga mats and home bakes.

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Reframe Coffee Roasters

Reframe Coffee Roasters roasts on site in a pocket-sized Bayan Lepas unit, the south-Penang bean source for the island's home-brewing crowd.

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Coffea Coffee

Coffea Coffee roasts its own blends from farms in Brazil, Guatemala and Ethiopia, sold at its Mont Kiara outlet in Kuala Lumpur every single day.

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