Beyond the V60 and Switch, Hario's less common drippers alter airflow, 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 flat-bottom dripper with a single central drain. Designed for cafe use with faster, more predictable drawdown than V60.
- Hario Suiren — a conical dripper with a corrugated interior pattern designed for enhanced water-coffee contact.
- 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.
Each uses proprietary Hario filters except the Woodneck, which uses reusable cotton filters that need 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 of these when you want a specific design feature — smooth wall (Mugen), fast drawdown flat-bottom (Pegasus), corrugation (Suiren), or cloth-filtered heritage brewing (Woodneck). Most home baristas already own a V60 before exploring these variants.