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V60

V60, single cup

15 g of coffee, 250 g of water, four pours. The everyday V60 recipe we come back to after testing every other one.

By Jean-Marc, Editor-in-chief

· 1 min read

A ceramic V60 dripper mid-pour, the coffee bed blooming

At a glance

Total
4 min
Difficulty
Medium
Yield
1 cup
Ratio
1:16.7
Dose
15 g
In cup
250 g

The build

  • Coffee15 g
  • Water250 g

Equipment

  • Hario V60-02
  • V60 02 paper filters
  • Gooseneck kettle
  • Scales with timer

Ingredients

Coffee, medium-fine
15 g
Water at 94 °C
250 g

Method

  1. Rinse the filter with hot water, discard the rinse, and add the ground coffee. Level the bed.

  2. Bloom with 45 g of water. Swirl gently so every particle is wet. Wait.

    45s

  3. Pour to 125 g in slow concentric circles, avoiding the filter wall.

    30s

  4. Pour to 190 g.

    20s

  5. Pour to 250 g, then give the dripper one gentle swirl to flatten the bed.

    20s

  6. Drawdown should finish between 2:45 and 3:15. Longer means grind coarser; shorter means grind finer.

A V60 seen from above, water poured in a spiral onto the coffee bed
The spiral keeps the pour away from the paper. Water that runs down the filter wall never touches coffee, and the cup tastes weak for a reason the scales do not show.Photo by Pascal on Pexels

Why four pours

Splitting the water keeps the bed saturated at a roughly constant level, which keeps the flow rate steady. One continuous pour works too, but it makes the drawdown much more sensitive to how the bed settles.

A V60 seen from above, the ground coffee levelled in the paper filter
A level bed before the first pour. A bed that slopes drains faster on the thin side, which is the most common cause of a drawdown that will not sit between 2:45 and 3:15.Photo by Fuadi Afif on Pexels
  • filter
  • pour-over

By Jean-Marc, Editor-in-chief

Jean-Marc is one of the two editors-in-chief of Buna Lab. He runs the French edition and writes about filter brewing, grinding and water, the three things that decide a cup before any machine is involved.