Hamilton Beach Brew Station - My Personal Review

No matter where you are, at home or at office, maybe for you and most peoples, drinking coffee has been one of important needs in your daily life. We all know that awful scorched flavor that the coffee made in a conventional coffeemaker has after a little time. So a good coffeemaker is a must have appliance to everyone that loves drinking coffee. With its innovative design the Hamilton Beach Brew Station can be used as the perfect solution for this problem.

I think, the Hamilton Beach Brew Station is more a coffee dispenser than a coffeemaker. There is neither Carafe nor hot plate to scorch the coffee flavor. Instead, the Brew Station coffeemaker has an internal warming tray to keep the coffee warm without risk of scorching the flavor of your coffee. So for anyone serious about tasting its last coffee of the day as fresh as the first one, the little marvel is a must.

The advantage of the dispensing idea behind the Brew Station is obvious, because there is no glass carafe, you can fill your cup with only one hand without worrying about breaking or spilling anything.

If you are a coffee addict, the Hamilton Beach Brew Station is a must. Even though they are relatively short-lived (I’ve found this is true for all Brew Station models, not just the Hamilton Beach Brew Station Deluxe), I wouldn’t use anything else for drip brewed coffee.


The advantages of the Brew Station are:

1. The brew selections are actually functional and allow you to adjust the strength of your brew to your liking and/or the type of coffee you are brewing.

2. The warmer keeps your coffee at a hot drinkable temperature, but never scorches the coffee, no matter how long you keep it on.

3. The auto shutoff allows you to select between 1 and 4 hours.

4. The auto brew function is great for having coffee ready for you when you wake up in the morning.

5. The tall, one handed, dispenser is great for filling your travel mug, or any other tall mug.

6. There is no glass carafe to worry about breaking or replacing.


The main disadvantages of the Hamilton Beach Brew Station are they tend to be a bit more expensive than other standard drip coffee makers and they have a shorter life span than most other major brands. I’ve had six Brew Stations over the last 10 years and they have lasted anywhere from about six months to about two years. The most common problem among the six I’ve had are they just quit feeding water, so they, obviously, won’t brew coffee any longer. One of them continued to feed water, but the heating element went out.

Two of my Brew Stations were free replacements from Hamilton Beach, sent after calling their toll free customer service number and explaining the problem I was having with the previous one. My first Hamilton Beach Brew Station Deluxe model was one of these free replacements. The customer service representative upgraded the replacement from the model I had that quit working.

There are several models available to pick from. Some with a capacity as little as six cups ( hamilton beach brewstation 6 cup coffeemaker ), it's  for the lone wolf coffee drinker, some reaching the forty cups and twelve ( hamilton beach brew station 12 cup ) more appropriate for a family gathering or the office, some featuring only the basics and some with all the gadgets that more expensive brands have. But whatever model you choose the most important feature is the possibility of tasting a fresh coffee during all day.