Coffee you enjoy, not coffee you study

Getting to know us

Coffee you enjoy, not coffee you study

Specialty coffee can sound like an exam sometimes. We get that. But it’s meant to be enjoyed, so let us do the studying, and you do the drinking.

Around here, there are no wrong taste buds.

How it started

We quit our corporate jobs and fell hard for specialty coffee, with no formal training and far too much curiosity. What hooked us was how wild the flavours could get: berries, jasmine, stone fruit, all out of the same little cherry. A crackpot is an eccentric who doesn’t quite fit in, so the name picked itself.

That’s still the mission: chase those little sparks of sweet serendipity and get them into your cup. From a small roastery in Subang Jaya, that means coffees chosen for character and packed in small batches with the roast date on the bag.

How it started

The coffees we chase

We like elegant coffees. We like strange coffees. We like coffees that taste exactly the way tradition says they should, and coffees that make us stop mid-sip and ask what on earth just happened.

So are we coffee anarchists, experimental-processing nerds, or quality-obsessed specialty roasters? Yes.

The serious part happens behind the counter: sourcing, tasting (a lot), and working out how each coffee wants to be roasted. That’s the studying. We just aren’t interested in making coffee conform to one idea of what “specialty” should taste like, and you don’t need a score sheet to enjoy the cup in front of you.

The coffees we chase

Rare. Quirky. Undefinable.

Meet St. Kobean

Our spirit animal is a platypus, and we relate to him on far too many levels. When the first pelt reached British scientists in 1798, one of them took a pair of scissors to it, hunting for the stitches where someone had surely sewn a duck’s bill onto a beaver. It was entirely real. It just refused to fit anybody’s categories.

We know the feeling, and we’re quite happy being the odd ones in our own corner of coffee.

St. Kobean

A family-run haven

Behind the counter is a family. We run the roastery ourselves while raising three young kids, which is exactly as chaotic as it sounds, and it means you’re always talking to the people who roasted your beans.

Ask us anything, including the questions you think are too basic. Those are our favourites. Or skip the questions entirely, pick a bag, and trust your taste buds.

A family-run haven