Build a Pour-Over Set-Up: Dripper, Stand, Jug, Cup
A pour-over set-up is four pieces: a dripper, a stand, something to brew into, and something to drink from. Add a scale, a grinder and a gooseneck kettle and you have a full kit — but those are the coffee side. This is the ceramic side, which is the part that lasts decades and the part that decides how the whole thing looks on the counter.
The dripper
The brewer itself. Loveramics make two families:
- Brewers cone drippers in three speeds — Strong, Smooth and Mellow. Different internal surface areas change the flow rate and therefore the body of the cup. Takes standard 02 cone papers. Buy Smooth if you are buying one.
- Flatbed Dripper — flat-bottom, fast flowing, built for a single cup, using wavy flat-bed papers. Loveramics brew it at 18–25g of coffee at a 1:12 to 1:15 ratio.
More on the difference in Strong, Smooth or Mellow.
The stand
Optional in theory, transformative in practice. A stand lets you brew into anything — a jug, a mug, a carafe — rather than being locked to whatever the dripper happens to sit on. It also stops the whole assembly wobbling when you pour.
The Brewers Coffee Dripper Stand is 18/8 stainless steel with a detachable silicone ring, 12 × 12 × 2.5cm, dishwasher safe, and designed by Simon Stevens. It fits third-party drippers in 02 size too, so it is not a locked-in purchase. Also in Matte Black and Metallic.
Something to brew into
| Vessel | Capacity | Best For |
| 300ml | Two cups. Porcelain, fits under most drippers, dishwasher and microwave safe. Doubles as a table jug. | |
| Tall Glass Jug | 500ml | Larger brews, and watching the brew happen. Useful when you are dialling a recipe in. |
If you are only ever brewing for yourself, skip this and brew straight into the cup on the stand.
The cup
Filter coffee is aromatic and light-bodied, and it rewards a cup that gets out of the way. Three routes:
- Brewers tasting cups (150ml) — Nutty, Sweet and Floral, three shapes that foreground different parts of a coffee. The enthusiast's answer.
- 250ml Embossed Cappuccino / Drip Coffee Cup — a proper mug-sized filter cup with a flared rim, in eleven pastel colours.
- Egg or Tulip — if you want the filter cups to match everything else in the cupboard.
Three complete kits
The starter — one dripper, one cup
A Flatbed Dripper and a 250ml Embossed cup. Brew straight into the cup, no stand, no jug. Around £30 and genuinely all you need for single-cup brewing.
The proper set-up — brew and serve
A Brewers dripper, the dripper stand, the 500ml glass jug and two tasting cups. This is the station in the video above — the one that lives on the counter and gets used every morning.
The gift — a bundle in a box
The Brewers Coffee Cups + Jug Collection pairs the 300ml Specialty Jug with one each of the Nutty, Sweet and Floral tasting cups — so the recipient can taste the same coffee three ways on day one. It is the most interesting thing in the range to give someone who already has a grinder. See more combinations on the Serve It Your Way bundles page.
What about the limited editions?
Loveramics has run a series of annual limited-edition dripper sets in signature potter's colours — the Pink set, then Gunpowder, a deep satin black where the reactive glaze breaks caramel over the embossment. Those sets typically bundle the three dripper speeds, a brass stand and a 500ml glass jug in gift packaging. They come and go; if one is live it will be on the new and upcoming page.
A brewing recipe to start from
- 18g coffee, 270ml water (1:15). Medium-fine grind, a little coarser than table salt.
- Rinse the paper with hot water — two papers if you are using a Brewers cone — and preheat the dripper and jug. Discard the rinse water.
- Bloom: 50g of water at 92–94°C. Swirl. Wait 40 seconds.
- Pour to 170g in slow circles. Pause 20 seconds.
- Pour to 270g. Total brew time should land around 2:45–3:15.
- Swirl the jug, pour, and taste. Sour and thin means grind finer; bitter and drying means grind coarser.
Then change nothing except the dripper and see what happens. That is the point of owning more than one.
Frequently asked questions
What do I need for pour-over coffee?
A dripper, filter papers, something to brew into, and a cup. A stand is optional but makes the set-up far more flexible. On the coffee side you also want a burr grinder, a scale and ideally a gooseneck kettle.
What is the best coffee-to-water ratio for pour-over?
Between 1:15 and 1:17 is the usual starting point — 18g of coffee to 270–306g of water. Loveramics brew the Flatbed Dripper stronger, at 18–25g at a 1:12 to 1:15 ratio.
Do I need a dripper stand?
Not strictly, but it lets you brew into any vessel rather than only ones the dripper balances on, and it keeps the assembly stable while you pour. The Loveramics stand also works with third-party drippers in 02 size.
What is a good coffee gift for someone who already has a machine?
Something that changes what they can do rather than duplicating what they have. A set of three tasting cups in different shapes, or a second dripper at a different flow rate, gives an experienced drinker a new variable to play with — a mug does not.
How much should a pour-over set-up cost?
A single-cup dripper and a good cup can be done for around £30. A full station with dripper, stand, glass jug and two tasting cups sits closer to £90. Neither figure includes the grinder, which is where the money should go first.
Start building: coffee drippers, tasting cups, and ready-made bundles.