This month's issue of Barista magazine has a great two page layout/article on the V60 Ceramic. Doug Hermann lays out "Unlocking the Hario." Very well done, but if you read this thread -- with Rasqual's discussion of individual brewing control, and my methodology -- well, you read it here first. The author goes too light on grams of coffee (IMHO) but that is back to control. Maybe he is slowing the pour more than I do.
Just looked and it is posted in their online content, pp 62-63.
http://baristamagazine.epubxpress.com/bam1
LOL
"The major advantage of the Hario V60 is that so many variables are under the control of the barista."
Yep.
Of course, Bill's been making full-open bottoms with his ceramic pourovers too, so he's on his way to the same territory. I'd merely express a preference for less expensive, non-"foldover" filters (contra Chemex -- I've always found the single-layer/triple-layer consequence of starting with flat paper odd for two reasons). I think a conicity that would accommodate Melittas would be just about perfect. And Bill? Fluting, dude.
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OTOH, if the Hario catches on, right-angle filters will doubtless get cheaper as competition for that market heats up. And while the Melitta can be adapted to the Hario conicity with a single fold, the opposite is not true. Riding the Hario's popularity and availing oneself of popular filters may mean designing for that.