The Hamilton Beach Brew Station makes 12 cups of coffee. The brew station is very easy to use. Lift the lid and you have easy access to the filter basket which you can take out and then you can easily remove the larger container and fill it to the 12 cup line and then pour your water into the back. Replace the the container and put your filter basket in and close the lid. You can program the brew station to make the coffee whenever you want. I like the feature that it goes off automatically after two hours, which is good especially if you get busy doing other things, you won't have a dried coffee...