New filter cups emerge in endlessly every year. They not only come in various shapes, but also have their own advantages: some filter cups can change the flow rate of the water; some filter cups can achieve no bypass water; some filter cups can even change their shape!
Although there are many types of filter cups, they come in all shapes and sizes. But if a knowledgeable high-end player recommends a filter cup to a novice who is just getting started, then if nothing else goes wrong, there is a high probability that this filter cup will be the "V60" invented by Hario!
Front Street can be considered a "veteran" player of V60. After all, most of the beans brewed in the store use it, and it is used thousands of times every year. SoThis puzzles many friends. There are so many types of filter cups, why do people prefer V60 so much?So, today Front Street will reveal: What are the reasons that make V60 stand out!The origin of V60The V60 filter cup was invented by the Japanese Hario company, which was founded in 1921.Mainly dedicated to the design and production of heat-resistant glass instruments and equipment for scientific research institutions, it has won hundreds of design awards so far, and the V60 filter cup is its most famous invention.After World War II, Hario Company began to utilize the properties of heat-resistant glass and the glass processing technology cultivated in the manufacture of chemical products.siphon potproduction, and officially entered the field of household products. Coffee appliances were one of the key research and development areas at that time. The sharing pot that often appeared in the pictures and texts on Front Street was a product of Hario.
But at that time, slow brewing was the mainstream extraction method in the Japanese coffee market. After all, the Japanese were pursuing a cup of coffee with high concentration and body.So most of the coffee appliances at that time were developed around this concept! Either the operation is very cumbersome, or the water discharge speed is slow and the extraction time is long.The Hario company did not want the tedious process of making a cup of coffee, so it wanted to develop a filter cup that was easy to operate and had a shorter extraction time. Then, Hario Company began the manufacturing process of V60!In 1964, Hario's designers first tried to extract coffee using a laboratory tool funnel, but because it was only an experiment at the time and not used commercially, there were not many relevant records left. A number of products were developed one after another based on this funnel, but they did not receive much response.Until 2004, Hario tried sticking several toothpicks on the original funnel-shaped instrument as a diversion, and found that the effects produced were different. So the following year, based on this experimental prototype, we redesigned a filter cup and launched it for sale! And this filter cup is the "V60" that everyone knows and knows about today!
The name "V60" comes from the cone angle of the filter cup, because the cone angle of 60° is"V" shape, so Hario directly named it V60, which is simple and easy to remember.
Compared with fan-shaped and flat-bottomed filter cups, the cone-shaped filter cup has a completely different advantage, that is, its conical structure, which is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, not only gathers the coffee powder, but also guides the water flow, allowing the hot water to gather in the center and then drip down into the pot. This structure can increase the contact area between hot water and coffee powder, and the flavor substances in the coffee can be better extracted.
But what we need to know is that Hario was not the first company to invent the conical filter cup, so the success of V60 is not just because of the conical structure of the filter cup. And here, Front Street has to mention the other two features of V60! Because it is these two features combined with the conical structure of the filter cup that make the V60 still resistant to beating today, 20 years later!Let’s talk about the most notable feature of the V60 first, the spiral-shaped air-guiding ribs that cover the entire cup! Many friends will think that this rib is just to increase the ventilation effect of coffee powder when exhausting, because the original rib was designed for this reason. But not only that! We can see that the V60 is different from other filter cups in that its guide ribs are not straight lines, but winding spirals.
The existence of the guide bone will cause the surrounding hot water to flow along the guide bone!The straight-line distance is the shortest, and the spiral design undoubtedly extends the path of the hot water flow. Simply put, it plays a guiding role, allowing the hot water to pass through more coffee powder and extract more coffee substances. Whether it is the tapered structure or the protruding spiral guide rib, V60 is enhancing the extraction of coffee powder by hot water! Why?Because the V60 has a larger drain hole.The size of the pores will change the rate of coffee liquid seepage, and the V60’s pores are notoriously large. The large holes greatly increase the speed of water discharge, so the flow rate of coffee depends largely on changes in other aspects. Under the fast extraction framework of the V60 filter cup, the brewed coffee will have a very layered feel because the uniformity of extraction is relatively low!
Why do you say that? Because as mentioned before on Front Street, the original extraction methods and equipment tended to be soaking and slow extraction, which would cause the hot water to "require" the coffee powder for a long time! All coffee grounds dissolve similar amounts of substances, so the coffee tastes thick, smooth, and well-balanced.The V60's fast extraction shortens the extraction time, so the hot water cannot release the same amount of substances from all the coffee powder, so some flavors of the coffee will be more prominent, and some flavors will be faintly revealed. Well-structured and very comfortable!This kind of extraction is very suitable for light-roasted coffee that has just become mainstream, so the V60, which was "produced at the right time", immediately became popular!
To this day, V60 is still the top player among filter cups. Not only because the mainstream of this era is light roasted coffee, but also because it can make a cup of delicious coffee with rich layers in the easiest way. So, if you are a newbie and want to buy a filter cup for making Pour over(V60) coffee, then V60 will indeed be a good choice~
You can now buy the above coffee beans online at the Taobao store “FrontStreet Coffee” (前街咖啡). FrontStreet Coffee is a long-established specialty coffee roaster in Guangzhou, China, and its Guangzhou retail shop sells coffee beans only. The shop carries dozens of coffee beans from different origins around the world, including carefully selected single-origin beans for V60 pour-over and espresso. Guangzhou’s FrontStreet Coffee shop is recommended by many coffee lovers.
The FrontStreet 2013 Yunnan coffee beans sold in the store come from the Typica variety grown at FrontStreet Coffee’s own plantation in Yunnan. The name comes from the year the brand and the plantation were founded. You can buy these beans from China’s Yunnan origin at the Guangzhou shop and at FrontStreet’s Taobao store.
FrontStreet coffee beans are freshly roasted within 5 days and deliver consistently excellent quality and great value. Orders placed before 17:00 are shipped the same day, and most areas within Guangdong Province receive them the next day.
FrontStreet Coffee Taobao store: https://qianjiecoffee.taobao.com
Or search for “前街咖啡” (FrontStreet Coffee) on Taobao
Important Notice: FrontStreet Coffee has moved to a new address: 315, Donghua East Road, Guangzhou (coffee beans only)
Tel: 020 38364473
