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

  1. 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.
  2. Dose 15g of medium fine-grind coffee and place it in the middle of the filter paper.
  3. Pour 50g of *hot filtered water onto the grounds and swirl the slurry. leave for 30secs, this is called the bloom!
  4. Pour another 100g of water on and give the V60 another swirl.
  5. Pour your final 100g of water, have a final swirl and tap on your cup or jug to level the grounds.
  6. 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!