How to brew coffee with a Hario Switch

The Hario Switch is a glass V60 cone sitting on a base with a small valve. With the switch up the valve is closed and the coffee steeps, and with it down the coffee drains like a normal V60.

This hybrid recipe starts as a pour over and finishes as an immersion, which gives the clarity of a V60 with extra sweetness and body. It makes one mug.

Hario Switch recipes

Hybrid

Pour over to start, steep to finish. Clear and sweet.

15 g · 1:16.7 · 2:45 to 3:30

Full immersion

All the water at once, steep, then flick the switch.

16 g · 1:15 · 2:45 to 3:15

Recipe

Coffee

Water

Makes about

Change any amount and the whole recipe scales with it.

Ratio: 1:16.7
Water temperature: 93°C
Grind: Medium-fine, like table salt
Time: 2:45 to 3:30

What you need

Hario Switch and a V60 02 paper filter
Kettle, ideally a gooseneck kettle
Digital scale with a timer
Burr grinder
Mug or server

Method

1
Heat water to about 93°C. Put the paper filter in the cone, push the switch down to open it and rinse the filter with hot water. Tip the rinse water away.
2
Grind 15 g of coffee medium-fine, put it in the filter and level it. Put everything on the scale and zero it.
3
With the switch open, start the timer and pour 50 g of water to wet all the grounds. Let it bloom for 40 seconds.
4
Pour slowly in circles until the scale reads 150 g at around 1:00.
5
Lift the switch to close it, then pour the rest of the water to 250 g.
6
At 2:00, push the switch down to open it and let the coffee drain. It should finish between 2:45 and 3:30.