It's the precision brewer from sage or brittle, depending where you are in the world.

For me, it's sage on.

I'm gonna tell you why this has been my go to Brewer for the last two years at home.

This review has been two years in the making.

It's because about two years ago, saved good in touch and said, Can we send you a machine?

Let us know what you think I said show that would be good And I got it.

Took it home and it was kind of like a U.

S version.

But with UK power through it, it wasn't the dedicated U K machine that was gonna come a couple months later.

Two years later.

Well, here we are.

They finally released the machine.

Andi, I gather they had some issues.

The UK London in particular has very hard water, and they found that a challenge in testing for this brewer in this market So they've gone away, changed a few things, added some upgrades.

I'll talk about that in a second and it is now available.

So it's a kind of order one for me.

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But you should know I didn't pay for this.

I've had one for two years, so let's dive into us.

Um, just a quick overview.

Specks of this whole thing.

It's an interesting approach to homebrewers.

It's £250 in the UK, which puts it at the upper end of the sort of small batch brewer market for the home, but no to the very top, which I think is interesting.

It's a very sage product.

It looks like a safe product.

It feels like a safe product.

The brush medals, they use the plastics.

The whole design aesthetic is very sage, and if you like that, you'll like this.

If you hate that you'll hate this, but I like it.

I've got a couple of things at home, and it kind of fits for me unusually.

This thing Kenbrell you upto 1.8 liters, which is a lot of coffee, certainly for the home.

That's a lot of cups of coffee in the morning for a family, but it doesn't have to brew it that kind of volume.

It does it kind of clever thing inside the fruit basket.

You've got to Brooke's sort of cones.

You've got one cone like this, which is designed to use the kind of Malita style papers I really like the Phil Trope papers myself, but if you take that out, you've actually got a kind of flat bottomed brewer.

And it does come with papers for it, so you can brew larger volumes in this With the Cobra, which is my preferred brewer, you can brew up to 1.2 liters, which, frankly, there's a lot.

It's enough.

It's more than I would need, but the extra is kind of interesting.

More than that, you don't even have to use this brew basket.

There is an adapter set that lets you put in a V 60 or a Kalita or something.

Chance to share ahead and change the sort of peace here where it sits and you can use whatever flat bottomed pour over brew you want.

Whatever contract, bro.

You want, you've got it.

You want to use it, you can use it.

You can have an automated version of the thing that you brew with all the rest of the time.

That's kind of cool.

It does also come with a metal filter basket.

If you want to do that.

If you want to go zero waste and not use paper whatsoever, this is an option.

I'm generally not a huge fan of these things.

I like them in principle.

I just personally, I always prefer the taste of paper filtered coffee underneath.

You gotta corral.

It is a thermal carafe, which is good.

They do, I think, a version that is glass with the heating plate that nobody should buy ever.

Just give the thermal corrupt, just get the thermal carafe and then the tanks at the back.

Pretty simple, pretty obvious so far in the tank in the UK now they've added one extra thing, which is this?

It's a It's a water softener.

It's a little filter.

It lasts about three months, and so you just said it and it will soften your water.

When you turn on the machine for the first time, it will ask you how hard your water is.

There's a test strip and stuff that basically tells the machine how often to prompt you to d scale it.

While this is nice, I would still strongly recommend just putting good, soft, clean water into your machine and not letting this do that.

This softening.

But if you have no option, then this is a good thing.

So now we need to talk about why this is called the Precision Brewer y.

It's a sort of smarter than average brewer on dhe.

How the features inside might stack up to other brewers in the market.

So in the Control Panel day today, there are three settings that you can use this kind of pre programmed settings for brewing.

They are fast, gold and strong, and they're really going to change the flow rate for the machine.

Ah, fast brew is designed to just pump more water into the basket quicker, allowing your Bruto happen in a quick away in the morning.

I've never really wanted to use that.

Nothing about fast appeals to me, but it's a function.

It's available and again strong.

That's gonna be sort of Maur extracted, which in many ways is often good.

But for me, I used the gold setting, or I use my own programming most of the time.

Now you can go in and set up what's called my bro.

It's kind of custom brewing.

Set up with that.

You control the bloom volume as well as the bloom time.

You can control your overall flow rate from very slow, too much quicker, and then you could control your brew temperature.

And that gives you a single degree Celsius increments to change your room temperature, which is extremely accurate.

So this is kind of build as being a very controllable, very programmable brewer that does deliver consistent temperature in my experience.

Yet it really does so beyond that, there's a couple more things to talk about in the menu, one of which I'm not super interested in, which is the cold brew functionality.

It's designed to sort of run overnight so you can have it run for hang up to 14 hours, where it'll slowly pump water cold water into your brew basket.

You don't put the lid on the carafe.

It steeps it for a long time and then eventually drains it.

I don't really like the taste of coffee brewed that way.

That's just me.

So I've had no interest whatsoever in using it.

I don't use.

It is one more thing, though, that I do use on this, but I'm a little bit ashamed off.

In a way, this machine has an auto start, and sometimes sometimes I might grind my coffee before going to bed and put it in the brew basket and have the machine come on like six in the morning if I have to get up early and I kind of love getting up to fresh made coffee, it's It's a wonderful thing.

I'm aware that grinding fresh is best, but I'm also aware that if it's an eight hour window, yeah, losing something.

But I'm not the world's most perceptive coffee taster.

At six in the morning, I just wanted to taste really good, so I'm happy to lose a little bit of aromatic complexity in exchange for someone having me a fresh pot of coffee.

Ready?

It's exam.

That's the deal.

So I use that more than I suspect.

I should tell people.

I do.

I like it.

It's a nice little function.

It's not unique to this, but it's a nice function toe have there.

So, so far, I've had nothing really bad to say about this brewer on.

In fairness, I have really enjoyed using it for the last two years.

It's been a steady staple, reliable part of my morning bring routine.

That doesn't mean that I have no complaints or quibbles or things that I should highlight along the way.

So firstly, the water tank in the UK version, they've done a kind of annoying thing to me.

They converted it from Imperial to metric, Thank you very much, but they have left the lines in the same place, which were, I think, 2030 40 ounces and then I think 60 ounces for the largest size.

So on here you've got like, a like a 900 mil mark.

I'm just not growing 900 mils of coffee very much.

I would like a liter mark.

I would like 1/2 liter mark.

I just feel that's a reasonable thing to ask for.

I've come to accept this.

I mean, I'm already brewing us ratios at home.

But I had hoped with the release of a UK brewer, they did just that have just gone in at the kind of half one liter thing.

You know.

Now, when it comes to the two brewers in here, I think the cone shaped brewer bruise significantly better than the flat bottom brewer.

My theory is, it's the showerhead that's really optimized for that kind of cone shape interview coverage.

In terms of agitation, disruption as brewing, it brews really nicely.

I just struggled to match the quality on the 1.8 litre bruise on the flat bottomed Bruce.

Even with a thicker bed depth, it just have just struggled to really, really, really get the same quality in the cup.

It's a funny thing, but I also wish this was a removable water container.

I think they're a couple of broads out there like the top end.

Well, for broader way, you could just take the water tank out.

It just makes it easier to fill.

I just I think it's a nicer experience.

It's not particularly difficult to do.

I don't think this has to be mounted on here with the correct.

I do like the design, but it suffers the same frustrations that every carafe suffers, which is you can't pour out absolutely everything.

There's always just like a little bit left over.

I don't understand it.

It's in every carafe, and it just makes me angry.

When you're brewing with the cone shaped filter, some coffee will get out into the kind of open basket area.

If you just rinse out the cone and don't remove this, you will not rinse out all the coffee that's under here.

So it's easy to have a little bit of accumulation here, you know, and you pull this out now and again if you like, and then it needs a clean.

So I was a bit lazy to start with until I open this up one day and was slightly disgusted with myself.

But just be aware.

You need to pull us out every time to clean it properly.

So there it is.

There is the sage precision brewer.

It's a brewer that I have enjoyed using for two years, £250.

It's not cheap, but I think it's actually a pretty great investment in your morning bruise.

I think if you need something to do larger volumes, something like one and 1/2 to 2 liters often, then I would buy a small commercial brewer.

They're not much more expensive, but that the showerhead in basket combo is usually a little bit more effective at brewing that way.

That said, I can't think of many cheaper commercial brewers that have the level of control on dhe program ability that this thing has so I could see these in small offices.

You know, it's batch brew in cafes that does so much batch brew have no idea on commercial warranties, but at home, it's good.

It's big, no question.

And you know, that's a a big old thing.

I'm okay with that.

I got the space is never really bothered me.

But so in comparison to other brewers in the past, I've had both a techno form and also that the sort of high end will for brewers.

Well, I like both of those brews.

I enjoyed the coffee that they made, but neither of them had the kind of feature set on the reliability in the control that this thing has.

It's a different brewer in many regards to those brewers I'm genuinely impressed on.

I find it an easy recommendation, so I'd really be interested to hear from you.

Do you have one of these?

I mean, he's been out for 23 years and a lot of the world.

Do you still have it?

Do you still use it every day?

Have you had issues that I haven't mentioned yet?

What did I miss?

What didn't I talk about?

I'd really be interested to hear your thoughts.

And maybe there's another brewer at the price point that I'm just not seeing that I should check out.

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