The Sage grinders are rare in that that they have a fairly decent adjustment, the steps are small, and it’s also very easy to make big adjustments for other brew methods and then go back to the exact setting you were at previously. This is the aforementioned internal burr adjustment, and it's such a clever, and useful feature, and one I very rarely hear anyone talking about. With the coffee grinder’s programmable timed grinding options, you can customise the dose for your brew type to deliver the finest cup every time.

Considering each espresso shot weighs roughly 20g that’s around 20 shots of coffee (minus a little for dialing in your shot). Hi Dave, at the factory pre-set burr setting, it’s probably not going to go coarse enough if you’re going for a true old-school course cafetiere grind.I know a lot more about grinders these days, so I understand that these don't have “true” burrs, they have “flat grinding wheels” which crush beans, and it's a common misconception that this is what burrs do, but actually, burrs are made to more or less “chew” beans into uniform chunks, not so much to crush them. On the Oracle Touch the grind size that worked well for the beans was 27 (for espresso), but the numbers are totally different on the Smart Grinder Pro?

Had my Sage Grinder pro for 3 months and it is fantastic – been grinding coffee for French press and pour over and it’s been flawless. The dose seems pretty consistent but my timings went from 30s to 20s for 2oz without changing the settings unexpectedly recently once, wondering if it might have just been a bad 200g bag loaded in though. This is a little twist in the story, but fear not, it's a story with a happy ending, and it turned out that it was me that was broken.

What I mean by this, is that the hopper on the Smart grinder pro is great as hoppers go, in fact overall it's probably one of the best hoppers I've seen, but hoppers should in my opinion be used as temporary storage only, and not as permanent storage solutions. So that's the nutshell review for anyone who was looking for a quick review from someone who has had a lot of experience with this grinder. This particular grinder did have a few minor issues in its earlier designs that Sage have managed to iron out.