Hario V60 Drip Coffee Pour Over Scale, Black (New Model)

UPDATE – Still Works Great After 8 Years!
I purchased this scale in January, 2016 to make pour-over coffee and I love it. It’s light-weight and easy to use. In 2018, I started selling on eBay and also used the scale to weigh packages (the smaller ones). Granted, I had to convert grams to ounces so after about 6 months I bought a scale specifically for eBay. All of this to say, the scale is tougher than it looks. Other reviewers mention that it does not like to get wet and that is true. I also purchased the Hario Acrylic Stand with Drip Tray so it almost eliminates the possibility of water getting on the scale when you’re pouring as well as providing a protected place to store the scale, dripper, and glass carafe. I would buy this product again because it makes the pour-over coffee process easier and more exact, has a small footprint on the counter, and is durable.2023 UPDATE: It is now December 2023, and after (almost) 8 years, I still use and LOVE this scale. I use it mostly to weigh my coffee beans and water for my cold brew and pour-over coffee. I don’t have a single complaint about this scale!

If you’re not using a scale and timer when making coffee I’m worried about your coffee education.
The Hario V60 scale and timer is right off the bat a solid unit. The batteries last forever and you’ll get a durable, reliable precision worthy of the Hario name. And trust me, the Hario name is trumpeted enough it’s like those people who will only drive on Goodyear tires when Yokohama tires absolutely kick butt also.Time and temperature are critical for great cooking, and the same could be said for specialty coffee preparation. When I say specialty coffee I do not mean snooty, upscale coffee, I mean the kind of coffee we as a culture are evolving into now that the days of oil in your cup are almost over.Trust me, a lot of Starbucks and Peet’s and other purveyors are really just the “new” oil in your cup and their product is medium quality at best. If you are still getting your coffee from a reservoir or some sort of holding system, understand this: coffee is meant to be brewed and drunk fresh. No holding time, no sugar (some of the beans out there are so sweet you would put your ordinary go to amount of sugar in it, taste it and know it was too sweet) and milk not cream.Why mild and not cream? It’s technical, but it’s called ‘the protein bridge.’ Most baristas will not know what that means. If you find one who does, stick with them and ask them for a pourover and if they do it right (no guarantee they will) you will understand you can never go back to drip coffee ever again.Hey, I didn’t start the revolution of coffee, somebody else did, but I sure don’t want to lose that war and neither do you.There are big, big changes going on in the coffee world, and you want to be a part of the change.So, you personally do not have to get a Hario V60 right now, but you eventually should and you should also eventually learn to source, grind, weigh, time the brew and serve properly your own cup of coffee and there is a very, very important reason why.Because your barista won’t. Big coffee chains and little ones are interested in money, not serving the best product possible, though they say they are. Only a small percentage of the dozens and dozens of baristas I have tested throughout the bay area (San Francisco) have gotten better than a D on the proper pourover process.Why is this important, because if you don’t miss a step, the cup you enjoy (and most people don’t even know how coffee should be drunk, truthfully) is in a word, transcendent.You need to get on to the fact I have that you have been severely under served by your coffee industry in general for a long, long time for a simple reason:..you can still make a lot of money serving absolute crap and there are very, very few other (except for perhaps the software business) businesses – not even the food business can pass this test most of the time – can do that.There are a gillion convenience stores that will witness for me to this fact.Some of you will too.Why all this hustle and bustle about coffee? Oh, my friends, it’s for the most special reason of all.It has finally gotten out, after years of divisiveness between coffee connoisseurs and coffee consumers that coffee is, and always was, the most complex and sophisticated flavor on the planet in all history, and for a long, long time to come.This sole and single fact has driven the coffee consumption of the planet from half a billion cups in 2012 to a trillion cups today.Yes, a trillion cups of coffee are consumed on Earth every year.This staggering metric is confession to the relationship we all have with the coffee bean. It goes way back, it has big mojo. Because we have had such a ritualistic and long lived relationship with this one flavor more than any other flavor in all time, it isn’t until now we are elevating ourselves culturally through what we drink.I don’t think all of you will agree with me, but the age of the end of alcohol as the number one go to beverage is at hand and coffee is the winner for all time. That is why the bean has been more fully dimensionalized only this late in culture due to the realization of this. Those dimensionalizations have taken the form of coffee kambutcha (which is kind redundant because coffee is already a fermented food and just enough fermented not to need ‘kambutchalizing’) but those of you addicted to sensory front kicks on your tastebuds, and its evil sidekick ‘under-flavoring’ can take a pass on my advice.So unless you are a geek like me and would buy a Brewista II over a Hario, just for the slight added features but didn’t want to afford the price differential, the Hario V60 can be a well deserved choice.The Lone Comic circleR

Clean and responsive
The design of this scale is really clean and modern, nicely minimalistic. The 2 buttons are responsive, although there is no feedback from pressing the button. When weighing my coffee it was really fast and the on screen timer was very helpful when brewing. Overall a really nice product!

I thought I’d pay a few extra bucks for a swanky blue scale. But I can’t keep this thing in good conscience.No backlight, no auto start for timer, runs on batteries instead of USB, scale doesn’t display 0.0 decimal accuracy when the Hario brand brew station is placed on it… that last one makes no sense to me but anyway. Not sure what’s going on at hario but I found a much better scale for 1/3 the price.

An accurate, sensitive and not too expensive scale with timer to help you brew excellent coffee.