The new Breville Luxe Brewer is designed for hot coffee. It makes a great, subtle, hot drop coffee. But it also does something that almost no other fantastic coffee machine on the market reaches. It makes a real cold brewery – the sweet and gentle things, the cool elixir of smooth summers and a milk sky.
The luxury is part of A new generation of drop coffee makers who helped convert drop coffee from bitter office fuel into a topic for knowledge. The Luxe’s predecessor, the exact Brewer, was one of the only A handful certified by the special coffee -association To breed coffee according to narrow references for temperature and extraction. The luxury, though not yet certified, breeds according to these same exact criteria.
The Luxe reaches this feat by a lot of technical sophistication. This means PID temperature controllers, strictly controlled currents, programmable algorithms for different water volumes, and the same thermocane heating and pump you would use to make espressss.
But the luxury makes a cold beer, blessed, leaving it alone. A real cold brewery is made only with coffee, water and time. Inserting this formula, or rushing it, never completely gives you the real thing. The Luxe gives you the actual thing-holding room water and coffee grounds in suspension as long as 24 hours before releasing it into waiting carafe. In a world of coffee machines desperate to screw a cold brewery, leaving it alone amounts to wild innovation. I didn’t see this feature in any coffee machine not made by Breville.
The device is not perfect, of course. There are some curiosities. But the Luxe is an impressive machine that holds Breville in the conversation when it comes to the best drop -off devices out there.
The fast drop
Photo: Matthew Korfage
Before we return to a cold brewery, let’s talk about dipping coffee. It’s good. The Luxe is a beautiful device, and also large: it makes 12 cups of coffee in a lot, as large as the largest office brewers but much softer and precise about how it breeds a large beaten coffee.
The device is programmable in most of its details. Clicking on the configuration option, Coffee Geeks are free to create their own custom criteria, modulating the brewery to accuracy of one degree. Other settings adjust the size and time of spill-style flowering, and the flow of coffee through a shower-style brewery.
But most people won’t bother. If you press the “Brew” button, the device will feel the amount of water in the removable water reservoir and beer accordingly. For small-fight coffee under 20 ounces, you will use a conical basket to insert and conical paper filters. For larger parts, you will use flat-bottom filters and the default flat brewery.
