"One of the most foundational V60 recipe for pour-over staters. It is the essential standard for extracting full cafe-level complexity from a solo home brew."

James Hoffmann

Tips & Preparation

Thanks to Reddit r/Coffee u/fractalsonfire
Use 100°C water for light roasts, slightly cooler for dark roasts.
Grind slightly finer than medium.
Adjust grind size and ratio to taste.

Recipe Steps

Rinse paper in V60 and preheat it. Pour in coffee and make a well with your finger in the coffee bed.

0:00

Start timer and gently pour 2x coffee dose as water to bloom (up to 3x coffee dose if necessary).

Swirl it good. Wait 30 to 45 seconds.

0:45

Spiral pour in 60% of total brew water until 1:15 (i.e. 60% of 500g, pour to 300g).

1:15

Keep it topped up, slowly pouring the rest of the brew water over 30 seconds

1:45

Little stir in one direction, then a little stir in the opposite direction (About 1 to 1.5 revolutions each way).

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Once it has drained a bit, then swirl it.

Wait for the coffee to fully drain. You want a flat bed of coffee and no big grinds of coffee on the side of the filter paper.