Our go-to brewing device is the Hario V60. We use it for our quality control at the roastery as well as for brewing our morning coffee at home. It produces a clean and elegant cup with vibrant acidity — a method that showcases the diversity and complexity of coffee.
What you need
- 24 g of coffee
- Clean, filtered water
- Kettle with a fine nozzle
- Coffee grinder — preferably a burr grinder
- Kitchen scale and timer
- A V60 kit (or your preferred pour-over device) and V60 paper filters
Steps to brew
- Turn on the kettle and bring it to a boil. In the meantime, weigh out 24 grams of coffee.
- Once boiling, rinse the paper filter carefully with the hot water. We use a plastic V60 — it heats up fast and allows you to brew at a high temperature. If possible, collect the rinsing water and save it for watering plants, washing windows etc.
- Grind the coffee on a medium-coarse setting and pour it into the V60 filter. The grind size impacts the taste of the coffee. Experiment and tweak the grind setting on your own grinder to get the best results. If you find the coffee to be bitter — grind coarser. If you find it thin and sour — grind finer.
- Put the V60 on a glass server, place it on the scale and tare. Start the timer and immediately pour around 50–60 ml of water over the coffee. Give it a few swirls to make sure all coffee grounds are soaked. Let the coffee "bloom" for 30 seconds.
- At 30 seconds, pour the water in a circular motion 3 times, avoiding the paper filter, then go over to pouring steadily in the middle until you reach 200 g.
- At 1 minute start the third pour repeating the same technique — pour 3 circles and then go back to the middle with a steady pour, reaching 300 g.
- At 1 minute 30 seconds start the last pour with the same technique, up to 400 g, finishing pouring after around 1 minute 45 seconds.
- Let the water run through the coffee and remove the filter when it starts dripping slowly. The total brew time should be somewhere between 2:45 and 3:30. Stir the brew a couple of times with a spoon. Allow the coffee to cool down a little before you drink it. Enjoy!
Tip: fix flat-tasting water
Add a couple of grams of lemon juice or a few drops of vinegar to your brew water if you think your coffee tastes a bit chalky and flat. This affects the alkalinity of the water and helps extract more of the acidity in the coffee. It obviously depends on the water quality you start with, but it's a cheap and easy way to brew much better tasting coffee without an advanced filtration system. We don't recommend bottled water except where it's a general health recommendation due to poor water quality. There are also several filter kettles on the market that are good for filtering tap water — removing particles, impurities, metals and carbonate hardness.
What to brew
The V60 is where our lightest, most aromatic coffees show best — a Pink Bourbon or a washed Kenyan. Browse our filter coffees →
