Filter Machines

When you need volume rather than theatre, filter brewing is hard to beat. A batch brewer produces litres of consistent black coffee in minutes, holds it at temperature, and lets one person serve a conference break, a breakfast rush or a busy canteen without ever touching a steam wand.

Decanter, round filtering or airpot

The Bravilor range here divides three ways. Decanter machines such as the Novo and Mondo brew into a glass jug on a hot plate and suit a counter where a jug empties inside half an hour. Round filtering machines — B5, B10 and B20 — brew into sealed containers instead, holding the coffee off direct heat so it stays drinkable across a long service, with the B10 giving two 10 litre containers and the B20 stepping up again. Airpot and thermal brewers like the TH10 and the RLX line send coffee straight into an insulated container that can be carried to where people are.

What a twin brewer really buys

Twin models are about workflow rather than capacity alone: the Mondo Twin and the plumbed Matic Twin run two brewers in rotation so one batch is pouring while the next fills, and a mains connection means nobody has to notice an empty tank. That is the single biggest cause of a brewer sitting idle at a breakfast service.

Choose by how quickly the coffee is drunk, not by how much the machine can make — cups per day and per hour is the calculation that matters. Filter also has the best cost per cup on most menus, which the margins guide bears out, and it partners well with a self-serve coffee to go station rather than replacing it.

Filter and batch brewing questions

When is filter coffee the better choice than espresso? When a lot of people want black coffee at the same moment — a conference break, a breakfast rush, a busy canteen. A batch brewer produces litres of consistent coffee in minutes, holds it at temperature, and needs no barista skill or steam wand.

What is the difference between decanter, round filtering and airpot machines? Decanter machines brew into a glass jug on a hot plate and suit a counter where a jug empties inside half an hour. Round filtering machines brew into sealed containers, holding the coffee off direct heat so it stays drinkable across a long service. Airpot and thermal brewers send coffee straight into an insulated container that can be carried to where people are.

How should a filter machine be sized? By how quickly the coffee is drunk, not by how much the machine can make. Cups per day and per hour is the calculation that matters.

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