The V60

The Hario V60 is the O.G pourover coffee brewer.

A staple in virtually every great specialty coffee cafe, this iconic dripper produces high clarity brews that can really help bring out and accentuate those amazing and delicate flavour notes.

Works great for

Anyone wanting to really explore a coffee and dial in on its individual flavour notes.

Today, we're going to cover our basic V60 recipe. Use this as a starting point.

Once you understand the basics of brewing pourover coffee with the V60, you'll be able to tweak your recipe to dial in your brews and get more of what you want from the extraction. Want more acidity? You can do it. Want more sweetness? You got it.

Let's dig in!

How To Brew Great Coffee On A V60

  • Our V60 Brew Guide

    1. Fold your filter paper along the joint. This will make it easy for you to open it out into a cone shape and have it retain its shape. Place the filter in your V60, and put the V60 on top of a cup or decanter to brew into.
    2. Rinse your filter paper and pre heat your V60. Slowly pour a good amount of hot water from your kettle into the brewer, wetting all of the filter paper. Discard the rinse water from your cup.
    3. Put the ground coffee in the V60, then shake slightly to level the bed. Put the cup (with the V60 atop) on a scale and zero it.
    4. Start a timer and at the same time begin your first pour. Pour 50g of water from your kettle in a slow spiral motion, starting from the center of the V60 and working your way out. Pour slowly.
    5. At 30 seconds, pour an additional 50g, bringing you to a total of 100g of water.
    6. At 1:15 pour +60g, to total 160g of water.
    7. At 2:00 pour the final 60g, to a total of 220g of water.
    8. Give the V60 a gentle, short swirl. This helps to level the bed so the water can drain through evenly.
    9. Let all the water drain through. Total brew time should be somewhere between 2:45 and 3:30.
    10. Enjoy!

  • Quick Overview

    Coffee Dose: 14g

    Water: 220g

    Ratio: 1:16~

    Water Temp: 205F

    Grind Size: Medium Coarse (see below)

    Total Brew Time: 2:45-3:30 (depending on the coffee used)

    Additional Tips

    For pouring, try to keep your flow rate as consistent and steady as possible. Avoid pouring water onto the filter itself, as this water is more likely to bypass the coffee bed.

V60 Grind Size

For this recipe, aim for something on the coarser end of your typical V60 grind size range.

Other recipes might call for more of a medium-fine grind, but for our coffees we like to start a little coarser and then tweak from there if we need to.

The picture on the left will give you an idea of our typical starting point.

Single Origin Filter Coffees For V60

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FAQs

Troubleshooting & Dialling In

My brew time is too fast / too slow.

Don't worry too much about brew time. That's why we gave such a large window of target brew times from 2:45 - 3:30. Try to focus on taste instead.

If you're brewing this recipe at 2:30 and it's tasting great, then you're exactly where you need to be.

If it tastes hollow, you might want to try slowing the brew down by grinding finer.

If it tastes bitter, try grinding coarser to speed things up.

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