Beyond the classic V60 and Switch, Hario's less common drippers alter airflow, paper contact or flow control to serve distinct brewing goals. This group offers routes to cleaner, gentler or more technique-tolerant cups through specialized designs.
How these Hario drippers brew
- Hario Mugen — a single-pour V60-alternative dripper with a smooth interior wall instead of ribs. Designed to work with a single large pour that fills the dripper and lets gravity do the rest. Marketed as the "one-pour" V60 for beginners.
- Hario Pegasus — a wedge-shaped, single-hole dripper with a more restricted flow than a V60. It favors body, sweetness and forgiving home brewing.
- Hario Suiren — a conical dripper with a corrugated interior pattern designed for enhanced water-coffee contact.
- Hario V60 NEO — a fast cone with 72 fine ribs converging into nine lower paths. It resists stalling and accommodates finer grinding or fines-heavy grinders.
- Hario Alpha 01 — a concave-channel cone developed by Hario Taiwan. Its controlled paper contact targets smooth, clog-resistant extraction and clear, aromatic cups.
- Hario V60 RAN 01 — a concave cone developed by Hario Shanghai with Yasuo Suzuki. Interrupted lower ribs target stable downward flow, lower sidewall bypass and repeatable extraction.
- Hario Woodneck — a cloth-filter pour-over in a glass body. The cloth filter produces a cup somewhere between paper-filter clarity and metal-filter body, with a distinctive mouthfeel. The oldest active pour-over filter type — cloth filters predate paper by decades.
Mugen, Suiren, NEO, Alpha and RAN use conical V60 paper in the matching size. Pegasus uses wedge paper, while Woodneck uses a reusable cotton filter that needs to be rinsed, boiled and stored wet.
What recipes in this collection share
These are niche devices with smaller recipe pools. Most recipes come from Japanese cafe traditions and from experimentation by roasters exploring the differences between each dripper and the V60. Typical parameter ranges:
- Ratio: 1:14 to 1:17
- Water temperature: 90 to 96 °C
- Grind: medium-fine to medium
- Total brew time: 2:30 to 4:00
Choose one when you want a specific design feature: a smooth wall (Mugen), a restricted wedge (Pegasus), open ribs (Suiren), high-flow ribs (NEO), controlled paper contact (Alpha or RAN), or cloth-filtered heritage brewing (Woodneck). Most home baristas already own a V60 before exploring these variants.
