Issue 01 Est. 2014 · Kuala Lumpur

The cup that started Bean Shipper.

Twelve years chasing better coffee for Malaysian kitchens — ten of them shipping the world’s best roasts in, two roasting them ourselves. This is the long version.

A note from the founders
Roastery
Kuala Lumpur
03°08'N · 101°41'E
Photographed inside our roastery, the morning of a daily roast.
— By the numbers

Twelve years curating.
Two years roasting.

2014
Two coffee lovers, one big idea
10
Years curating world-class roasts before our own drum
23
Partner farms across ten countries
1,200kg
Roasted every month, all on order
Hundreds
Of active subscribers across Malaysia
2024
The year we lit the drum ourselves

Bean Shipper started with a simple love — tasting as many coffees as we could get our hands on. Espresso bars in Melbourne, third-wave cafés in Brooklyn, single origins from Tokyo and Oslo and Berlin. Every trip ended the same way: a duffel bag full of fresh roasts heading home to Kuala Lumpur, where almost none of it was available.

So in 2014, we made it our job.

For the first decade, we worked with the world’s best roasters — sourced their bags fresh, shipped them to Malaysian doorsteps before the beans had time to fade. We spent the off-hours visiting roasteries around the world, talking shop, sharing tips, picking up everything we could about what a great cup really takes.

In 2024, we started roasting ourselves.

Today we still curate from international roasters when something special lands. But the bag arriving at your door this week was probably in our drum on Monday — 1,200kg roasted every month, all of it on order. That’s the entire point of what we do.

Hundreds of regulars are now on a subscription. Fresh beans on their cadence, free shipping, skip or swap any time. The simplest way to never run out and never drink a stale cup again.

From coffee lovers, for coffee lovers. Still.

Origins · The bean belt

Ten countries. One pour.

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HQ · Kuala Lumpur
Coffee belt · ±23.5°
Equal-Earth projection · 110m boundaries Updated · June 2026

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