Espresso Series 1

They shipped thousands of pre-orders last week, and most people who pre-ordered are probably coffee nerds who are on Reddit, not just average consumers. Given that context, I don’t think 6 DOA posts indicates a huge problem… it’s less than half a percent of the number they shipped. People rave about

Reliability of Series 1 is our number 1 priority. The reason for the shift in mass production was so that we didn't need to make the machine get a performance hit to meet our goals. We accelerate life test everything to meet a MINIMUM 5 year bar (this doesn't mean the product breaks after 5 years, i

Love mine, but I did get the extended warranty (new product, not sure how it will hold up). Some small(ish) known issues though... Volumetric mode is set badly out of the box and needs adjustment if you want to use it (I don't, so it's just off anyway), there's a fair amount of water waste at startu

lol this thing always getting hate on here. I preordered mine as soon as I saw it mostly because of how great the Aiden has been for us. My first espresso machine was a vintage dual switch La Pavoni Europiccola. Bought it on eBay in 2018. It’s the only espresso machine I’ve ever owned. I learned how

Sorry, I don’t, hopefully Fellow will reply. I’ve preordered my ES1 here in the UK and am quite excited and looking forward to delivery (Summer). I’m interested to know if Fellow think it needs an upgrade. I’d like to think that the design process has taken this in to consideration. My current machi

If you're looking at the Fellow ES1, have you considered the WPM Primus? Much better build quality, and fairly programmable.

I got a chance to play around with one of these at a fellow es1 class. let me tell you, for $200, there is nothing on the market even close to it. the stepless adjustment is maybe a touch too firm, but the action is smooth and its the right balance between dialing in to exactly where you want it, bu

Lots of different ways you can go. For a traditional flat pressure shot, no milk drinks, I would go with a Rancilio Silvia and find one with a PID already installed to avoid temp surfing. If you want a little more room for experimentation, Quick Mill Pop Up or Lucca Tempo (same thing) offers flow co

I’m very happy either way the Fellow, but can’t speak to the grinder as it arrived damaged (the box looked like UPS used it for drop testing). I’m using a K6 hand grinder for now. Finished my initial dialing in fairly quickly and have started to explore some of the alternate brew profiles. The steam

I went to the Fellow ES1 from the Bambino because I had the same needs as you and wanted a technology middle ground between the Decent and LM machines. It’s not without its quirks and v1 issues but has generally been a fantastic machine and definitely ticks the “fast on, repeatable high quality shot