How the V60 Became the Coffee Brewer of Choice for Many ⇥ youtube.com

I am a daily user of a V60, so this new James Hoffmann video scratched an itch I did not know I had. Not to spoil it, but the V60 does not make a significant appearance until the last four minutes, but the journey is worth the wait.

The discussion of the mid-2000s specialty coffee movement in Canada brought back some memories, too. Vancouver was the most significant place in the country and perhaps one of a few places in the world where this attitude toward coffee was taking over, and Calgary luckily received some of the reflected glory. There are shots of menus from 2006 with by-the-cup brewing for two or three dollars, around the same time Phil & Sebastian was getting started here. There is a note at the bottom of one of the menus from Elysian advertising advance purchases of a forthcoming award-winning coffee at the then-devastating price of ten dollars per cup.

Turns out twenty years is a long time.