Cafec is a specialty coffee brand from Sanyo Sangyo, a Japanese paper manufacturer that spent decades producing filters for V60s, Kalitas, and Chemex brewers before releasing its own drippers. The Flower Dripper, first shown in 2018, is a 60-degree cone — same angle as a V60 — with twenty-two deep internal pleats that give it the flower-petal silhouette it is named for.
The pleats function as structural ribs, but their shape and depth change how the filter sits. Paper filters for the Flower are themselves corrugated, which means filter and dripper meet only at ridge tips, leaving continuous channels of air between the two. Water drains very freely compared with a standard V60. The cup lands brighter and faster, with clearer top notes and less of the settled body a smoother-walled cone produces.
A starting recipe for the Cup 1 size: 15 g of coffee to 250 g of water (1:16), medium-fine grind, water at 94–96 °C, four pours in 2:30 to 3:15. Cafec sells specific pleated filters for the Flower line (Abaca papers), which matter — using a generic V60 filter kills the airflow design and the dripper just becomes a fast V60. With the right paper, it is one of the most articulate conical brewers on the market.