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title: Pour-over · Coffee Addict
url: https://coffeeaddict.nz/guides/pour-over/
source: Coffee Addict
checked: Prices checked 23 Aug 2026, 15:40 UTC.
generated: 2026-08-23 23:25 UTC
description: Where the coffee has nowhere to hide.
---

# Pour-over

Where the coffee has nowhere to hide.

A cone, a paper, three minutes of your attention, and the clearest cup you can make at home.

## The recipe

Makes: One large cup, about 280 ml

| | |
|---|---|
| Coffee | 18 g |
| Water | 300 g |
| Ratio | 1:16.7 |
| Temperature | 94 °C |
| Grind | Medium, like coarse sand |
| Time | 3:00 drawdown |

## Method

- **before** — Sit the paper in the cone over your carafe and rinse it through with a good slug of hot water. Tip that water out. Papery water is a real taste and this is how you get rid of it — it preheats everything as a bonus.
- **0:00** — 18 g of coffee in, ground like coarse sand. Tap the cone to flatten the bed. Start the timer and pour 60 g of water — just enough to wet all of it.
- **0:45** — That was the bloom. Fresh coffee is full of carbon dioxide and it has to get out before water can get in; you can watch it swell and settle. Now pour in slow circles up to 180 g, keeping off the paper. Water that runs down the side never touches coffee.
- **1:15** — Pour up to 300 g the same way.
- **1:45** — One gentle swirl of the whole cone to flatten the bed, then leave it alone.
- **3:00** — It should finish draining between 2:45 and 3:15, and the bed should be flat and level when it does.

A sloped, crusty bed up the sides of the paper means your pour was hitting the wall. A crater in the middle means you poured too hard.

## The only number that really matters

Drawdown time. Everything else is a lever for it. Finished before 2:30 and it will taste sour and thin — grind finer. Still dripping past 3:30 and it will taste bitter and drying — grind coarser.

Change the grind, not the recipe. Adding more coffee to a sour cup gets you a stronger sour cup.

## Water

Thirty seconds off the boil is close enough to 94 °C. Hotter is fine for a light roast and punishing for a dark one.

If your tap water tastes of chlorine, so will your coffee — a jug filter fixes that for the price of one bag of beans.

## Why bother, when the AeroPress is easier

Clarity. A paper filter and a thin bed separate a coffee into its parts: a good Ethiopian through a cone tastes of a specific fruit you could name, and the same coffee through a plunger tastes of very nice coffee.

If you are paying $12 per 100 g, you may as well hear what you paid for.

## Bags on the shelf that suit it

Matched on what the roaster themselves publishes — the roast style they file it under, and the fruit-and-flower end of their own tasting notes. Bags that tick both come first.

| Coffee | Roaster | Bag | Price | Per 100g | In stock |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rwanda Agaciro Grade 1 | Red Rabbit Coffee Co. | 250 g | $21.00 | $8.40 | yes |
| Colombia Cauca Decaf | Coffee Supreme | 500 g | $43.50 | $8.70 | yes |
| Don Joel, Finca Carmela | Ozone Coffee Roasters | 250 g | $26.00 | $10.40 | yes |
| Indonesia Yolan Tirta \| Filter Roast | Atomic Coffee Roasters | 250 g | $28.50 | $11.40 | yes |
| ROASTERS' CUP - Apricot co-ferment | L'affare | 200 g | $30.00 | $15.00 | yes |

## Gear

| What | Item | Price | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| The cone | Hario V60 dripper, plastic | $14.75 | C4 Coffee Co. |
| The cone, in ceramic | Hario V60 dripper 02 | $29.00 | Havana Coffee Works |
| Filters | Hario V60 01 papers, 40 pack | $11.50 | Atomic Coffee Roasters |
| Filters, both sizes | Hario V60 papers | $11.00 | Eighthirty Coffee Roasters |
| Kettle, eventually | Hario V60 Buono drip kettle, 1 L | $86.25 | C4 Coffee Co. |

Hario V60 dripper, plastic — From $14.75 for the 1-cup. Plastic is not the cheap option, it is the good one — it holds heat better than ceramic and survives being dropped.
Hario V60 dripper 02 — Heavier, prettier, and wants a rinse of hot water before you brew or it steals the heat.
Hario V60 01 papers, 40 pack — Get the size that matches your cone. An 02 paper in an 01 cone folds over and channels.
Hario V60 papers — From $11.00 for 40.
Hario V60 Buono drip kettle, 1 L — The last thing to buy, not the first. But a gooseneck is the difference between pouring and dumping.

Gear picked by hand, and every shop listed is one this site already tracks. Nothing here is sponsored and no link pays us. Prices re-checked against each shop's own catalogue nightly; last check 23 Aug 2026.

## About this data

Prices, weights and stock are the roasters' own, read from their public shop pages and re-checked every night. We do not set them, mark them up, or estimate them: a figure we could not read is null. Free to quote with attribution and a link.

One scrape a night at 15:40 UTC (about 03:40 in New Zealand), then the whole site and every endpoint is rebuilt.

Links to shops go through /go/ so we can count how many readers we send each roaster. We earn nothing from them — no affiliate deals, no commission, no paid placement — and if that ever changes this line changes with it.

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