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. The pleats are on the dripper body — a standard V60-size cone paper sits inside and meets it only at the 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 pairs it with its own Abaca V60-size cone paper; because the airflow comes from the dripper's pleats (not the paper), any standard V60 cone paper fits — a fast Abaca sheet simply suits the design best. With the right paper, it is one of the most articulate conical brewers on the market.
