HARIO V60-02 SWITCH Immersion Dripper (200ml/6.76oz) (Glass)

Very convenient and easy to use, only drawback, you cannot really go more than a 200ml cup with this.

Easy to use and makes a good cup of coffee with little effort!

Only one I use now. Better than a basic v60.

The perfect brewer

Extremely intuitive and makes great tasting coffee

Recently got this Hario switch after our V60 broke. So happy we chose this. It makes such great coffee! Very easy to learn how to use and makes a noticeable difference. I would recommend!

The Switch V60-02 is a bit a small, but can be used as a regular V60 if you need to make a bigger cup.

Very interesting concepts. Brews amazing coffee. Gives a lot of forgiveness with grind setting.

This is my single cup daily driver when I am in a rush to focus on making a v60, gives same results with more room for mistakes and inaccuracy :)

One design flaw is that the cup is quite small, so I usually go for 250/12gram coffee brew. Had a few cases of accidents, but you will get used to it.

Exceptional quality pour-over/immersion brewer. Offers a lot of freedom to play with recipes and combines immersion and pour over brewing methods.

I've been a long fan of Hario V60s and when I saw this on sale I thought I'd buy it to try a full immersion dripper. Compared to the clever dripper I saw online, what I like about this is that you can use it to do an array of pouring techniques with the switch mechanism. It's become my daily driver!

I think Clever was the first stop and release dripper ever made and Hario just copies the idea in Switch. I really love the glass and how the valve functions. However, if you want to use it in fully immersion method its capacity is limited to just one cup.

I've used this for quite some time now! I love the versatility of it! You can you it to make different types of coffee: full immersion, hybrid method, and just as a regular V60. This gives me the control and option to change up the coffee I'm having in the morning. As a V60, most people recommend just leaving the switch open, but I found that the flow is a bit slow.. If you take the metal ball out in the middle, it'll flow way better, just like a glass V60 with a base :)

Made about 30 cups of coffee so far. Never failed to make good coffee with it. The filer that comes with it makes coffee tastes bitter. I bought a bamboo paper filter which brings flavour out more and tastes better.

Makes the hario into a solid consistent brewing device instead of a finicky inconsistent one. Skip the conventional hario and get this

Prior to picking up this new piece of gear I already have been using a Hario v60 drip decanter for many years after receiving it as a gift. I heard a lot of good things about the switch and thought I would give it a try. I am currently only using the switch as my main pourover brewer. In comparison to the decanter it takes up less space and can brew into almost any vessel. I use the switch function quite often and rarely use it as strictly a normal pourover brewer. There are a lot of different combinations on how you can use this brewer, whether it is full immersion, pourover or a hybrid version of partial immersion and partial pourover. You can choose to agitate it to give it a bit more extraction or just let it sit and extract naturally. The possibilities are endless.

This particular model is quite small and if you do full immersion brews it will limit your final cup size to approx 250ml give or take. The cone part is also glass so it requires a good preheat so that you get temperature stability. However with the switch mechanism it is quite easy to just leave water locked in there so that it will heat it up. Personally I would prefer some sort of plastic alternative just for a bit better thermal management and to avoid possibly breaking the glass cone.

Worth a try for anyone that has existing pourover brewers and also for someone's first brewer this would be great as it allows for a lot of different recipe options.

I bought this to replace my Clever Dripper which is made out of plastic. Love that this is made from glass. Makes delicious coffee!

It's surprisingly heavy and solid. I expected it to be just plastic like my regular v60. But this is great! I'm loving it

This versatile immersion/drip combo is very flexible and interesting to experiment with (YouTube is rife with suggested variations in terms of brew methods). The quality (fit and finish) is surprisingly good as well (especially compared to my plastic Mugler V60 😬).

However…

Not a fan of the glass. Too much heat transfer if it is not preheated piping hot. Some I know (I’m looking at you Nick F 😝) swap a plastic V60 Mugen for the glass Switch, to Frankenstein what is affectionately known as a “Mitch”. Boom. Heat transfer issue solved.

Small issue in any event. Preheat the glass vessel (and wet the filter, which should be done anyway), and all is good.

What I DO mind, however, is that my Switch 2 is silly small. Even for 1 cup! Yes - I prefer a larger cup of coffee, but still. I definitely should have got the Switch 3.

Now…all hope is not lost…

As mentioned, the plastic V60 on my V60 Mugen will swap out in the Switch. That said, while it takes care of the thermal loss issue, it is a size 2 as well, resulting a small volume coffee (for me) in the end. Sigh.

I am on the hunt for a size 3 inexpensive plastic V60 to swap out in the Switch, so I can create my own large cup capable Mitch.

TL; DR - if you like a North American supersized mug of coffee, consider the size 3 Switch instead of the size 2.

This full immersion brewer gives great cups consistently.

But if you prefer larger cups gets the 300ml version

I already had a V60 brewer but this one was interesting to me because it allowed me to brew right into a cup and it had the namesake switch function. My only concern was the glass which is breakable and takes more to heat it up. The brewer is your typical Hario quality. I've been using it as my main pourover for a few weeks now and overall I find it quite nice. I don't use it much as a normal pour over brewer as I really want to explore the switch function. I have found I was able to unlock some of those bright notes on lighter roasted coffees quite nicely when combined with having the switch closed and some additional agitation with a stir stick.

I only wish it came with some sort of mat or holder that I could put the brewer on after I am done brewing. I generally put it on my counter which is fine for the most part, but would be nice if there was a dedicated accessory for this. The glass heats up quite nicely especially when you can have the switch closed allowing the water to sit in the cone which allows the glass to get up to brewing temperature.

If you don't have a v60 brewer, this would be the one I would suggest getting, it is very versatile in what it can do and can sit on top of a cup or carafe. You can do full immersion, pourover or a hybrid of part immersion and part pourover. Lots of experimenting to find that ulitmate cup. Depending on how much coffee you generally like to brew, this one may be a little small(when using the switch function) and many have suggested the 03 size instead. This one works fine for me, before this I was making 300ml pourover, but now I have cut it back to a 270ml which is not that much less.

The Switch permits one to mix pourover and immersion techniques and makes brewing a great cup of coffee incredibly easy. It’s a must have dripper!

I really like the normal Hario V60, and this gives you the additional option to do immersion brews. This is the best immersion brewer for my use case.

Really like the hybrid concept and being able to experiment with mixing pourover and immersion in the same brew.

Good compliment to my Aeropress for when I want the pourover taste.

I prefer Cafec "Medium Roast" filters to the included Hario filters.

So good I bought a second one for my dad!

Awesome product, super easy to use, makes a great pourover

I’ve only had the Switch for about two weeks and like it a lot. It’s like a French Press and a pour over in one easy package. I was initially a bit disappointed that it only makes one cup, but I’m ok with that now; I make two cups using different beans for comparison, and a fast electric kettle rather than my Fellow goose neck on a gas cooktop. The filters that come with it fit perfectly, I’m guessing they’re Hario 01. I use a ratio of 70g coffee per litre of water. I’ve found through experiment that grinding 19g of beans on an ODE 1.1 set at 2, and pouring 270g of water yields 240ml of coffee = 1 US cup. 270ml is right to to the very top of the filter/glass. I prefer Origami filters over Hario filters, and tried Origami 01 filters but they are smaller than the Hario 01. The Origami are still useable by filling to their top, letting it stew for two minutes, releasing some into the cup, and then pouring more water to get to 270ml and releasing that at 3 minutes.