The Orea V4 Wide is the high-flow counterpart to the V4 Narrow. It keeps the flat bed and standard 185 Wave filters of the Orea line but opens the drainage pattern even further than the V3 did, producing the fastest flat-bottom dripper Orea makes.
The wide funnel's open geometry means the V4 Wide rewards brewers who already have pour technique. A steady continuous stream keeps the bed agitated evenly; hesitant pours or uneven flow lands you with channeling and thin extractions. In skilled hands the cup is startlingly clear for a flat bed — almost V60-like in articulation — with enough body from the geometry to keep it grounded.
A baseline recipe: 18 g of coffee to 300 g of water (1:16–1:17), a grind one notch finer than your V3 setting to compensate for faster flow, water at 94 °C, three to four continuous pours in 2:00 to 2:45. Like the Narrow, the V4 Wide is modular — the same funnel takes interchangeable Fast, Classic, Open, and Apex bottoms that each tune drainage, so each recipe here notes the base it is built for. It is the dripper for brewers who want to push extraction and clarity on light roasts without moving to a V60 — a flat-bed format with top-note range.
