The act of hand-pouring hot water over a bed of ground coffee seems simple enough. Yet year after year, more manual pourover brewers emerge to challenge the established pathways — both literal and figurative — to brewing coffee.
Several new manual brewers popped up at the Specialty Coffee Association’s World of Coffee event in San Diego earlier this month, offering fresh takes on materials, brew capacity and physical performance. (Read all of DCN’s World of Coffee San Diego coverage, including a roundup of new home coffee gear.)
Here we take a deep breath, consider our daily rituals and look back at the variety of manual pourover brewers that came to San Diego:
Espro Pourover
Espro Pourover. Daily Coffee News by Howard Bryman.
Known primarily for its line of insulated, dual-filtered French presses, Espro returns to the manual pourover format with its upcoming release, the Espro Pourover. Its previous product, the Espro Bloom, was a cup-top brewer launched in 2020 in collaboration with barista Kaley Gann around a flat-bottom, fluted-wall basket-shaped filter, while the new brewer is modeled after the classic conical hourglass Chemex platform. The borosilicate glass brewer features interior ridges for faster flow, a metal collar and a metal-and-silicone base plate for added durability. Sales are slated to begin in late May for $59.95.
Timemore Crystal Eye Vector
Timemore Crystal Eye Vector. Daily Coffee News by Howard Bryman.
2021 World Brewers Cup champion Matt Winton teamed with equipment manufacturer Timemore to bring his pourover filter holder design, called the Vector, to market, making its U.S. launch. Categorized by Timemore as a variant of its Crystal Eye pourover cone, the Vector features an intricate system of interior facets and channels made with high precision through stainless steel injection molding. Its touch points against the bed of coffee create capillary action that helps draw water down through the bed, while its passageways allow brew to flow down and air to flow up, aiming for higher extractions with fewer pours.
Sibarist Brewing System
Sibarist Brewing System. Daily Coffee News by Howard Bryman.
Handmade in Barcelona out of borosilicate glass, the Sibarist Brewing System was designed to maximize the performance of Sibarist’s high-permeability paper filters. Two rings at the top of the brewer grasp and suspend the filter inside the vessel, while a cylindrical “exchanger” rises from the base. With no capillary action caused by contact with the filter, bypass is minimized along the sides, encouraging all brew to exit at the cone’s bottom point and flow in a laminar stream over the exchanger, which can be filled with ice or warm water to quickly adjust the drink’s temperature without sacrificing aromatics over time. We’ll have more on this system soon.
NextLevel Pulsar Mini
NextLevel Pulsar Mini. Daily Coffee News by Howard Bryman.
NextLevel Brewer Company celebrated the official launch of its Pulsar Mini brewer, which rolled out for sale at the end of 2025. The smaller version of the zero-bypass, steep-and-release Pulsar brewer, the Mini features the same valve and materials as the original while excelling with 12-20 grams of coffee, providing greater bed depth for smaller cups that competitors or aficionados might prefer for their most expensive, high-end beans. The Pulsar Mini sells on the company’s website for $57.
Aurli Purion 360 Dripper
Taiwanese ceramics company Lin’s Ceramics Studio devoted its booth to the Aurli Purion 360 Dripper (not pictured), a conical brewing system made from five-times-kiln-fired ceramic for thermal stability. Rotating the upper component of the brewer opens and closes a valve at its base, allowing users to throttle or stop the flow for immersion brewing or modified percolation, including for steeping tea or brewing coffee without a paper filter. The Aurli Purion 360 Dripper is for sale online for $116.79.
Hario Neo
Hario Neo. Daily Coffee News by Howard Bryman.
Following its debut in recent months at coffee industry trade shows overseas, the Hario Neo brewer took center stage at the Japanese equipment maker’s booth in San Diego. Born from the same internal “New V60” initiative that yielded the Suiren and Mugen brewers, the Neo aims for faster flow through maximum contact between the filter and the walls, arranged evenly to prevent channeling while leaving open passage for air and liquid to move. The resulting 72 thin ribs wind along the interior of the cone before converging into nine at the base for a speedy brew that avoids both under- and over-extraction. The Neo 01 in black is for sale now for $23.50, with a larger size and additional colors to follow soon.
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