JB Cafe: August Drip Coffee (八月咖啡工作室) @ Taman Century
- Rick
- Dec 3
- 3 min read
Update:
Note that August Drip Coffee has moved to a new location, also in Taman Century. Check the new address and map below.
"This is a workshop more than a cafe", said Linda when introducing the cafe. She was roasting coffee beans beside the door when I first stepped into the cafe in June 2022.
August Drip Coffee (八月咖啡工作室) is a workshop, or a "roaster", where it roasts a wide range of imported specialty coffee beans. It is also a great spot for coffee-lovers to interact, exchange coffee and brewing knowledge, and enjoy wonderful pour-over coffees and the cafe's special coffees with light bites. They hold workshops for latte arts, coffee cupping, and other coffee-related sharing sessions regularly too — refer to their Facebook for more info.
Started in August 2019 in a shop unit right besides Restoran Hao Bi (好比鸭王) in Taman Century, the cafe moved to a standalone building with bigger space in November 2025, still in Taman Century.
August Drip Coffee imports over 70 types of coffee beans from around the world, including via auctions for exclusive beans from famous farms. The workshop-cafe's main role is to roast the different types of specialty coffee beans to bring out their best taste profiles. I like the roasty aroma that filled the cafe when they are roasting the beans — so lucky it was on my first visit and I was hooked since then.
In one corner near the entrance, their wide range of freshly roasted coffee beans are laid out for selection for pour-overs. Light roasted beans are mostly fruity in nature. Medium roasted beans are fuller body, mildly acidic and with stronger aromas.
Having a cup of pour-over coffee at the cafe is a great way to try the different flavours before buying the coffee beans to self-brew at home.
The pour-overs that I have tried at the cafe are mostly light-roasted to taste their bright flavours (closer to original) and include Ethiopia Sidamo, Kenya Kiriniaga, China Yunnan Red Wine in the Sun, Ethiopia Yirgacheffe, Colombia Huila, and a lot more since 2022. Then, I will get either light- or medium-roasted beans to brew at home — one or two different types of bean a time. Note that availability of certain coffee beans may be seasonal.
There are also nice cakes to go with coffee. These cakes are baked by Sherly. There are several flavours of cheesecakes, tiramisu, brownies, pound cakes, etc. The new cafe also added a bakery that makes sea-salt croissants, garlic buns, etc. Curry puffs and small packets of mee siam and nasi lemak are available too — and they run out fast.
Aside from pour-over specialty coffees, August cafe has its own blend of coffee beans and their cappuccino is rich and creamy with a pleasant aroma from specially self-roasted coffee beans. They also serve Italian coffees and special coffees with unique flavours.
I visit the cafe very often to try more of their hand-brew coffees, gain knowledge about coffee beans and also learning how to brew them. August Drip Coffee is a great starting place for beginners in self-brew coffee — I started brewing my own coffee after 4 visits to August Drip Coffee.
The cafe has a membership scheme for discounts on expenses. Special promotions for members are usually held in the month of August during their anniversaries.
Don't miss out August Drip Coffee if you are a coffee-lover and enjoy savings on your coffees and freshly roasted coffee beans. For those who have never try pour-over coffee before, experience it at the cafe with lovely friends — they don't like to be called "staff" — who will be more than happy to share what they know.
Visit the cafe or order their roasted coffee beans online:
Malaysia: shopee.com.my/augustdripcoffee
Singapore: shopee.sg/jonpeh1990
Social Media:
Address:
211, Jalan Dato Sulaiman, Taman Abad, 80250 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia
Opening Hours:
8:30am to 10:30pm | Daily
How to Get There:
From JB Sentral, take BAS.MY J11 / J15 / J20 / J22 to Crystal Crown Hotel and walk over. Read: JB Bus Guide: Getting to Pelangi & Dai Mah Garden.