Today, we're gonna talk about the V60 filters.
Now there's been a little bit of talk online
about the various different filters out there.
I thought I would just do a quick video to explain exactly
what the differences are with
the three different types of V60 filters
you can currently buy, all Hario brand.
We're gonna brew them.
See if there's any real differences there
maybe taste them too.
That'll make sense, I promise.
So right now there are three different types
of filters that you can buy.
You can get the boxed filters, right?
Which are typically available only in forties.
For the bleach filters,
you can still get hundreds of the unbleached.
These are the original, right?
These are the ones made by the original factory in Japan.
Not so long ago these came out,
which are the kind of the loud crinkly pouch.
So these are the kinds of loose packed filters.
These are also made in Japan but in a different factory,
they're in a new factory.
So these have been around for a little while.
Most recently you've seen these,
the sort of shrink wrapped type of packs of a hundred.
Now these are actually made in Europe,
they're made in the Netherlands.
So these are probably the kind of newest filters out there
and they're all a little bit different.
So let's look in a little bit more detail
into how they're different.
So open them up.
Okay, so there's three filters
and they do feel really quite different
which is interesting.
The original filter has no tab.
The other two have little convenience tabs to help you open
and separate the filter out.
The original does not have that.
The most recent ones, the ones from Europe also
have V60 D embossed on them.
Now as a paper they feel really different to the other two
which feel a little closer in texture.
The original feels softer almost as a texture
and it looks reasonably similar to the other Japanese paper
but the newer one definitely looks a lot different.
So what I wanna do really as the first test is
I'm gonna brew each filter, same conditions.
We're gonna do a really simple pour of a technique.
There's gonna be a stirred bloom and then we're gonna get
the water in as quickly as possible,
a stir for the draw down and that's it.
Just so we can see the influence and impact
of the paper on brew time, which I think is gonna
be really, really interesting.
Different thicknesses of paper,
they're gonna swell different ways.
Those fibers are gonna kind of add a little bit
of resistance to the brew, potentially.
I don't know exactly how they're gonna brew
but it should be an interesting little test.
So I'm gonna brew 30 grams to 500 of water
and I will just do that three times and see the difference.
I'll say that's done at 2:20.
I'll call that done at 2:35.
I'll call that done at 3:10.
So the next part of the test that I wanted to do was trying
to understand if the papers were bringing any kind
of taste to play in a cup of coffee.
Now everyone rinses their papers,
or at least I hope they do,
but I thought it would be fun to do a quick experiment.
Years ago, I wrote a piece for a magazine called Longberry,
where I tasted a whole host of different filter papers.
And all I did was this,
I steeped them in a hot water and then tasted the results
and it was really surprising how different they were.
So that's exactly what I've done here with the three papers,
with the original Japanese paper,
with the other, the second Japanese factory,
and then the Dutch factory over here.
So I'm kind of curious just to taste,
these have been sitting for about 10 minutes infusing now,
whether there's any difference.
So, you know, wish me luck.
It's kind of a little bit sweet.
Kind of reminds me a little bit of like chewing a pencil
that kind of taste, not surprisingly.
Let's go for this one here.
Oh different, really different, not unpleasant actually
but less the kind of slightly artificial sweet
much more of a kind of...
A much more kind of just straight cardboardy of flavor,
I guess a little bit.
But really actually no, really very neutral.
I actually believe, you know,
really very little flavor coming out of this.
Oh, oh, that is very different.
That is not entirely unpleasant.
It's bleached filter after all but it definitely
has a much more distinct taste.
Kind of almost tiny bit, kind of chemically,
kind of bit leathery almost really,
really drastically different.
Okay, let's wrap this all up into some results.
Coming into this, I'd heard people having very, very,
very different experiences, quite dramatically
different brews with the different papers.
And so it was interesting to do a test to verify that.
Now, you know, I don't think the two papers
from Japan brewed dramatically different.
There was a small variance in time
but not something that you would really be worrying
about a great deal
or maybe worrying about changing a grind setting for,
and they were both pretty neutral tasting
The papers here,
they did brew pretty differently
like really surprisingly differently to me.
Especially because this felt like a thinner piece of paper
not like say a Chemex filter,
which feels really, really thick.
This felt quite the opposite, quite thin.
I wonder whether it swells more dramatically
in contact with water
just providing that little bit of extra resistance.
I don't really necessarily understand why
it's doing what it's doing
but it's definitely notable.
And it does taste a little bit different.
Their original filters are only available
right now in packs of 40.
And that does mean that you're gonna pay a premium
if you really do want the original filters.
They're definitely available, they're out there,
but you are gonna pay more
and I'm not necessarily sure that they're worth
that much more than the other filters that you
can quite easily get that are made in Japan.
I'm not saying you should avoid the papers made in Holland.
Maybe you like them, maybe they brew better for you.
I'm not saying that one is dramatically better than
the other but certainly if you're having issues with
this paper it might be worth tracking down one of these two.
So for sure really, definitely pretty interesting,
quite surprising.
I would really love to hear your feedback.
Have you been brewing with any of these different papers?
Have you had wildly different results
to the ones that I've had
in some pretty simple testing here today?
Let me know your thoughts in the comments down below.
As always, thank you so much for watching.
I hope you have a great day.