BEEM Germany Fresh Aroma Perfect Superior Coffee Machine, 1.5 Litre, 1000 Watt

Only used it for a few days so cant comment on reliability yet but id does seem to be a very well made machine.Instructions and operation are clear and simple and you have full control over the grind and the strength. Makes good coffee which is the important bit. This fits very nicely under our top cabinets in the kitchen but if you have very low cupboards do check the dimensions as it is fairly tall. Timer to make fresh coffee in the morning (so long as you prep it the night before) if you wish, and if you fill the water container (behind the bean holder top back) it will only use the number of cups required. This is a very good machine and I would have given 5 stars except for the power plug. Instead of fitting a UK 13amp plug it has a sealed converter to turn the Euro plug to UK. Its all very safe,sealed and well made but it makes a very large and ugly plug with the cable sticking out at 90 degrees.

I am a tea drinker all my life, but i decided at this late stage to give coffee a good go, and see if i can be converted, as i do not know what is a bad cup of coffee and what is a good cup of coffee, i feel i am the wrong person to be reviewing this kind of coffee maker, all i can say is it makes coffee as advertised, it grinds the beans, it has a built in filter, and it does look good on the counter top, it is around 43cm high, so you would need to check your kitchen cabinet heights to make sure it fits under them, i think i got the last one of these on this UK site, it was also a warehouse deal, so i got it for half the normal price.I suppose it is just a matter of finding the right type of bean or ground coffee to find the taste that i actually can live with, and i may start to drink the odd cup of coffee every now and again, although for now good hot tea will still be my first choice as a beverage.This coffee maker a Beem from germany is probably the same as an Andrew James coffee maker that other reviewers have alluded to, although it would not surprise me if most of these machines came from the same factory in china, just with different brand names on them, and maybe buttons in different places. I will have to try this machine out on reall coffee drinkers to know for sure if the coffee it produces is any good at all, which i simply have no idea whether it is good or not, but i will keep on looking for a coffee bean that tastes fine for me. In the meantime i am going to put the kettle on for a nice refreshing cup of tea. up to now you can not beat a good cup of tea.

Pot lid doesn’t open 180 degrees so can’t drain easily after washing but makes great coffee!

Excellent works well. saves time

I do like my coffee, and over the years, I have had pretty much every style of coffee maker going.We do have a different make of bean to cup maker at work, that was roughly the same price, and it is on the go all the time.Back to the Beem. Not a make I have heard of before, but a German colleague told me they are well known over there. The machine itself is reasonably good looking, tall and slim, so it won't take up too much counter top space.The main pros are that you can select how fine or course you grind your coffee ... or even to not grind at all if you want to use your own pre ground coffee. Not a bad idea if you have to make an early start, as the noise would wake the house up.Another good idea is that you can fill the water reservoir but then set it on a range of 2 - 12 cups, or half that for the mugs we use.The conical (gold) filter can be used without standard 1 - 4 filter papers, but we tend to use them as it makes clean up easier.The glass jug has an insulated handle, and sits on a warming plate that will keep your brew how for a couple of hours.I didn't get any instructions with mine, but to be honest, set up is simple.The cons are that you can't clean the grind mechanism. I know the blurb says that you don't need to, but in my experience, grinding coffee does tend to release natural oils in the bean that over time can clog up the works. The second con is about price and build quality. There are a lot of bean to cup makers out there at sub £100, and it will be interesting to see if the near £150 selling price dips to meet the competition. Build quality is probably OK for a domestic setting, but is nowhere near as good as the one we have in the office.All in all, a decent enough coffee maker, perhaps a little pricey for the quality, but it does produce a decent and hot brew.