HARIO V60-01 Dripper (Ceramic)

Niche but not for me

I wanted to experience the V60 technique, so I bought one to try it out but did not realize how unique the design was. My usual brand of non-bleached, cruelty free (no animal glue etc) filter paper did not really fit it and because of the wide hole in the bottom, I kept breaking the filter papers. I eventually just gave it away to someone as it just wasn't working out. Part my ignorance surely but I just don't dig the design. The cups I got from it were inconsistent. Some good and some not so great. It is pretty though.

The original, classic, yet still relevant!

So many drippers available these days and coffee professionals and home coffee geeks still seem to love the original V60! Picked up the Small 01 size ceramic one in GREEN to add to my collection :D I use light roast coffee for pour overs, for dark roast you may have a different experience, although I believe the V60 was originally designed with darker coffee in mind! Like most pour over devices it is versatile with many different brew techniques / recipes, it can be as simple or as complicated as you want it to be :D Keep in mind when testing I've been usually using a smaller amount of coffee since I'm generally doing 2-3 or sometimes 4 pour overs at once (Using usually 12g coffee sometimes 13 or 14g) IF you use a larger amount your results may be different than mine. I originally had a Plastic Timemore Crystal Eye brewer (in a similar conical V60 shape and size (02)) I compared with a Plastic V60 and noticed I generally got more pleasant acidity and brightness and maybe more linger generally out of the V60 (02). I preferred the V60. Later Compared the Plastic 02 to the Smaller Plastic 01 size brewers and found I generally preferred the smaller 01 size brewer again due to more brightness and linger usually. Perhaps the smaller 01 size is just better suited to my smaller 12g dose. However, going to Ceramic V60 I thought I lost a little bit of the brightness and acidity I enjoyed in the Plastic V60s. Maybe it's more balanced this way, still good. Though sometimes I still get good brightness / acidity, it's not that it's lacking totally, maybe it's down to preheating or pouring / brew errors. One thing I prefer about the plastic: I don't bother preheating the plastic V60s, but I do pre wet / rinse the filters and the filter seems to stick / fit better than on the ceramic ones. But I'm a little skeptical about the healthiness of brewing in plastic which is why I want to use the Ceramic ones more often. Ceramic may require a pre-heating. I leave it on-top of my kettle but then I rinse the filter with warm tap water which probably loses some heat... Sometimes I'll rinse the filter then put it on the kettle, but then I'm getting condensation / steaming the filter and potentially getting some steamed filter paper water in my kettle.... so workflow is more awkward. If I'm not using fancy remineralized water or if I have more than enough water for the pourovers I'm doing then I'd just use the kettle water for preheating which is still a bit awkward I prefer running it under the tap rather than risking spilling / burning :p Talking to other pour-over people, for some reason they seem to prefer plastic, then ceramic and glass being the least fav. Although people do seem to love the Switch which comes with a glass V60. I like the green colour, the ribs on the inside and the Made in Japan stand out more than on the white.

Great small size V60

Bought this as I wanted a smaller v60. Makes a single cup which is great. Love that the simple look of the ceramics. Would recommend.