If you are a novice and want a coffee guru who has been in the coffee industry for a long time to recommend a practical and easy-to-use hand brewing filter cup, then Front Street believes that the filter cup he recommends to you will most likely be a product launched more than 20 years ago - V60.Even though new filter cups are constantly being launched every year, as of today, there is still no filter cup that can shake theV60The position in the hand rush world. To explain why the V60 is so popular, Front Street believes that it can definitely be called "a combination of thousands of advantages" because it is both practical and affordable!The V60 was invented by a Japanese company founded in Tokyo in 1921. The main content of this company's production was glass products, so their company name was named "King of Glass".Hario」。Hario first produced heat-resistant glass instruments and equipment related to scientific research institutions. It was not until the 1940s that as coffee became popular in Japan, Hario saw the right opportunity and began to design and produce coffee-related instruments. The siphon pot was the first coffee equipment they produced.Because for a long time at that time, "slow immersion extraction" was the mainstream of the coffee market. No matter what kind of equipment, most of them are developed around the concept of making coffee brew longer and taste more mellow. Like Kono,KalitaThe filter cups of other brands are excellent representatives. So the Hario company began to have the idea of creating a Pour over(V60) filter cup that was different from the norm, with a faster flow rate and a completely different experience.With this idea in mind, Hario started designing the filter cup. Finally, after several modifications, a filter cup named V60 was officially launched in 2004.It can be said that the emergence of this filter cup just caught up with the trend of the times. At that time, the mainstream coffee roasting wasthird waveUnder the influence, from deep to shallow. People’s pursuit of coffee flavor is no longer just the mellow sweetness of dark roasting, but also the exquisite sour aroma that can show the taste of the region.At that time, the extraction effect of most filter cups focused on producing a mellow taste and balanced flavor tonality, and could not well express the flavor levels of light roasted coffee. This left a large gap in the market for filter cups suitable for light roasting. The V60 happened to be launched during this time period and successfully filled this gap, so it caused a violent response and became popular as soon as it was launched.Advantages of V60 filter cupThe success of the V60 was mainly due to its several revolutionary designs for the time, such as larger water outlets and long and numerousdiversion rib, and then these designs, combined with the tapered body of the filter cup, together create a classic.Cone angle of V60:The reason why V60 is named V60 is because the main body of its filter cup has a tapered structure, which looks like a big "V" from the side, and the angle between the two sides is 60°C, so it is named V60. We can understand that this is a conical filter cup with an included angle of 60°C.Because the structure of the conical filter cup is from narrow to wide from bottom to top, it will allow the coffee powder to build a thicker powder bed. At the same time, the cross-sectional area of each layer of the powder bed is different, from large to small from top to bottom.Such a powder bed structure can make the brewed coffee more layered, because each layer of coffee powder receives inconsistent extraction and the amount of dissolved substances is different. Therefore, compared to fan-shaped and cake filter cups, cone-shaped filter cups can brew more layered coffee, but relatively speaking, the taste of coffee will not be as balanced as those brewed with them.V60’s large water outlet:The V60 has a large-aperture water outlet! The number and size of the water outlets of the filter cup are one of the main factors that determine the speed of water discharge during brewing. Because the V60 has a relatively large drainage hole, its launching speed will be faster.Fast flow rate can prevent excessive soaking when extracting coffee powder, which can make a difference in the material precipitation of coffee powder. To put it simply, it can further increase the layering of coffee.And because the brewing technique and the way of filling water can also affect the speed of water discharge, a fast-flow filter cup can have a richer variety of ways to play. Just by adjusting parameters and water injection methods, V60 can easily adapt to various extraction schemes.V60 air guide ribs:It can be said that the most iconic feature of the V60 is the long and protruding spiral guide ribs that cover the entire cup.The protruding ribs can support the filter paper and create air pockets! The function of these air pockets is to allow the powder bed to better exhaust during the brewing process and increase the speed of the coffee liquid being poured into the water. The difference from most filter cups is that these guide ribs are not straight lines but meandering spirals, so they can also play a guiding role in addition to exhaust!The main body of guidance is hot water. During the extraction process, the liquid in contact with the ribs can pass through more coffee powder, which allows the hot water to extract more objects and dissolve more flavor substances.Combining the above three points, we can know that the brewing advantages of V60 are "fast flow rate", "the brewed coffee can have rich layers" and "more ways to play". Even now, this advantage is still timeless. We can get a glimpse of it from the frequent use of the champions in the World Coffee Brewing Competition.The V60 filter cup has a lot of different materials to choose from! Such as ceramics, resin, glass, metal, etc. Filter cups made of different materials have different extraction advantages, which are affected by the specific heat capacity and thermal conductivity of the material. Front Street has introduced them in detail in previous articles, so I will not go into details here.Among all the materials, Front Street’s favorite is the filter cup made of resin. Putting aside the advantages in extraction, the V60 filter cup made of resin has two advantages that are difficult to possess with other materials. One is that it is resistant to falling! Even if you accidentally knock the filter cup off the table and onto the ground, it won’t necessarily fall apart;
Another one is the affordable price. The price of the resin version of V60 will hardly make you feel any burden. It is very suitable for novices to use when they are just starting to explore! Even if it is subsequently broken or discarded, you will not feel reluctant to part with it because of the price of the filter cup.So to sum up, we can know why V60 is still so popular until now. Not only is it very practical, it’s also affordable.But when it comes to its shortcomings... there are still some! If a novice wants to make a good cup of coffee with it, he needs some practice. Because the powder bed accumulated by the V60 will be thicker and the water will be discharged faster, it requires more brewing techniques and coordination of parameters than other types of filter cups. For novices, this requires more exploration and practice to fully utilize the characteristics of V60. Then, practice slowly~
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
