Pour Over

Pour over is the method that made specialty coffee famous: hot water poured by hand over a bed of freshly ground coffee, dripping through a paper filter into your cup. It rewards attention. Grind size, water temperature, pour speed, and — above all — your coffee-to-water ratio decide whether the cup is bright and sweet or thin and sour.

The three drippers you’ll meet most are the cone-shaped Hario V60 (fast, clarity-forward), the thick-filtered Chemex (clean and tea-like), and the flat-bottom Kalita Wave (forgiving and even). Each has a sweet-spot ratio and pour pattern, and our guides give you a repeatable recipe for each — plus the Brew Ratio Calculator to scale it to any batch size.