How To Brew The Best Filter Coffee (V60) At Home

Filter coffee (also called drip/pourover/v60) is one of the simplest methods of coffee preparation at home, and also the one for which you don’t need much of equipment in order to produce a cafe quality beverage.

What do you need?

• a good light filter roast from your local roaster
• a decent grinder
• dripper
• paper filter
• any kettle (better with an adjustable temperature feature)
• any kitchen scale
• any clock (or your phone)
• good quality water, like THIS one

General rules:

• Brew ratio: 1:14 – 1:17 (example 15g coffee : 210-250g water)
• Pours for 15g if you want to keep it simple: 50-100-50-50
• Water temperature: 92-98C
• Extraction time: 150-210s (blooming included)

Steps:

1. make your dripper and filter warm & wet
2. shake up the ground coffee and then pour into it
3. create a little hole in it
4. 1st pour: pour water on it slowly reaching 1:2.5 – 1:3 ratio (example: 15g coffee – 35-50g water)
5. swirl passionately
6. let it bloom for 30-45s
7. deliver the rest of the water:
8. • 2nd pour: up to 9-10x the amount of ground coffee (example: 15g coffee – 150g water)
   • 3rd pour: up to 12-14x the amount of ground coffee (example: 15g coffee – 200g water)
   • 4th pour: up to 14-17x the amount of ground coffee (example: 15g coffee – 250g water)
   • use circular ways to pour, but always over the coffee bed
   • no need to pour from big heights, remember, we are not a fountain
9. swirl moderately
10. remember, each coffee and grinder are different, so the only thing that matters is the taste
11. enjoy!