Hamilton Beach 6-cup Brew Station Review

I'm constantly trying to find the next best coffee maker for our house and that's how I found the Hamilton Beach 6-cup Coffee Maker. After some regular use, I've found some things I really like about it and other things I wish I could change, but overall I think it's a pretty good machine and for now, I'm satisfied with it.

The BrewStation has all the basics including a clock, a programmable timer, a water reservoir, and a filter holder. The difference comes about when you brew the coffee. Instead of going into a coffee pot, the coffee is kept in an interior reservoir that has its own heater. So the coffee is brewed hot and then is kept hot in the machine by the heater. From there, it's like being at a restaurant at a soda station, when you want coffee you put your cup in the machine and push it up against the pour button and the coffee exits the interior reservoir into your cup.

It takes about five minutes to brew the full 6-cups of coffee with this machine and the coffee isn't brewed at the hottest temperature I've seen in coffee makers. After your done brewing and drinking your coffee, the clean up is easy.

I like the idea of this coffee maker without the coffee pot since I'm someone that will have a cup of coffee here and there and I like the option of just serving myself a cup of coffee whenever I feel like it, instead of wondering if what's in the pot is still warm. I will say that I was disappointed about the temperature of the coffee brewing. The BrewStation doesn't make awful coffee, but it's definitely not the hottest coffee I've had right out of brewing.

My Take

I like the fact that I can have a couple cups of coffee throughout the morning that all taste good and are hot with the BrewStation, but I don't like that it brews the coffee at a pretty low temperature. That said, overall, I like the Hamilton Beach BrewStation 6-Cup Coffee Maker.