Filter
Pour-over filters like V60 and Chemex are the perfect way to get super clean, sweet black coffee. This method is unlike any other and when using a light roast (1st crack) single-origin coffee, you can make something light, delicate and flavourful, which would look more like herbal tea rather than a ‘traditional’ coffee. The guide below is for the Hario V60 with a paper filter. If using a Chemex or a Kalita dose, the grind size may differ, but the method is very similar.
Method
- Fold the seam of the paper filter in on itself, then open it out inside the V60 cone. Lightly wet the filter, sticking it to the sides of the cone.
- Dose 15g of medium fine-grind coffee and place it in the middle of the filter paper.
- Pour 50g of *hot filtered water onto the grounds and swirl the slurry. leave for 30secs, this is called the bloom!
- Pour another 100g of water on and give the V60 another swirl.
- Pour your final 100g of water, have a final swirl and tap on your cup or jug to level the grounds.
- It should finish draining at about 2:30-3 minutes. Let it cool slightly and enjoy!
* Use water as soon as it has boiled; it won’t ‘burn the coffee’, the coffee has already been in a 200-degree roaster!