Skip to content

Filters

Sibarist APRIL Edition (FAST) vs April Flat Bottom Paper

Sibarist APRIL Edition (FAST)
Fits
Flat basket
Flow
Fast · Manufacturer-stated
Material
Paper · Abaca
Reuse
Single-use
Availability
Specialty only
How it brews
Sibarist's fast abaca flat-bottom paper cut for April's flat brewer, in S and M. It sits in the flat-basket family and interchanges with flat papers of the matching fit. Same high-permeability abaca sheet as the FAST line: an open flat paper clears the shallow bed quickly, which is the fast, high-clarity brief Sibarist markets (its own claim, not measured here) — build contact time back with a finer grind if you want more. Specialty, single-use, with the usual rinse.
April Flat Bottom Paper
Fits
Flat basket, Kalita Wave 155, Kalita Wave 185
Flow
Fast · Manufacturer-stated
Material
Paper · Cellulose
Reuse
Single-use
Availability
Specialty only
How it brews
The Copenhagen roastery's own flat-bottom paper, sold Small (≈Kalita 155 / Origami S) and Large (size 175, for the April plastic brewer). It's cut to sit deep with a wide base and is marketed as flowing faster than conventional flat papers — that speed claim is April's, kept as a class rather than a number here. One honest ambiguity: older retailer copy described April filters as using Sibarist's abaca FAST technology, while the current listing says virgin wood pulp (cellulose); we record cellulose per the direct listing but don't treat abaca as confirmed. It drops into a Kalita Wave 155/185 seat, so it interchanges with those papers.