Pros: Solid construction, easy to clean, one button brewing, quality carafe with easy pouring options.Ĭons: Expensive, poor water spray and resulting brew, small parts may be easy to misplace, not as many brewing options.īottom line: The Technivorm Moccamaster KBT 741 is well built, with an excellent history of reliability. The identifiable notes became muddled and unclear. The flavor tasted more over-extracted and bitter than the others. This is the most expensive brewer on the list, coming in at $299 Again, if an ideal brew is desired the user needs to give more attention to the details. The many pieces are designed for easy cleaning. The brew button is a simple press, though a lot of individual parts must come together to brew properly. The water spray is akin to a dribble, providing no turbulence and rather varying brews.
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Some level of manual intervention is needed to create a fully saturated brew. This result happened every time we brewed. The center of the cone is saturated, with mostly dry grounds in the perimeter. With the ability to tweak your brew recipe, water saturation time, temperature, or overall brew time, this brewer is a coffee geek’s dream. Pros: Excellent construction and materials, ability to control brewing temperature, elevation setting, brew timer (to automatically begin brewing), quality water spray and resulting brew.Ĭons: Long brew time (takes minutes to brew a pot), slightly off-center water spray, somewhat complicated programming, very tall and must have access to top chamber (doesn’t fit under a standard kitchen cabinet well).īottom line: The Behmor Brazen Plus is a solid and well designed brewer. The flavor was appropriate for the beans, flavor notes were clean and mostly well defined. This was the second most expensive brewer on the list, coming in at $199. There are a huge number of options, buttons, and settings with this brewer, which is nice to have but somewhat complicated to set up. The water sprays a little to the right side each time, though this may be because of the valve in the coffee funnel pushing up when the carafe is in place for brewing. Grinds are saturated and thoroughly wet after brewing The following notes show where each brewer met, exceeded, or didn’t live up to our expectations. Beyond that, some brewers performed better than others in various categories. Bunn Velocity Brew (link goes to the newer BT model)Īll of these coffee brewers meet the SCAA standards for great coffee and have been certified as such.The brewers that we obtained samples of included: We used the same beans, with the same ratio of 55g coffee to 1 liter water, to test each side by side and determine the best flavor outcome. When testing the brewers flavor output was considered the most important criteria, and pricing was the least important. Flavor output (If we are testing coffee, it needs to make tasty coffee!).
Reasonable price point (People might buy it).Ease of use (Quick and efficient to make coffee).
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This is also the standard that we use here at Roast Ratings for all of our brew evaluations (to learn more about our full rating process look here). As you may have seen, we recommend a specific coffee brewer, the BonaVita 1900TS, if you are looking for an auto brewer at home.