I guess you should have a normal home coffee brewer at home, and you should already know some names like drip coffee maker or espresso machine. And you May have a bonavita bv1800 8-cup coffee maker or just a cheap Mr.Coffee machine. In fact, there are a lot of coffee makers you can use to brew coffee, which will be discussed in the following parts:
Filter coffee machine
Firstly, cold water is poured into the top part of the filter coffee machine and be heated and streamed. Hot water then flows through the basket of grounds and tasty coffee finally drips into the mug below. Any ground coffee is eligible.
Pod or capsule coffee machine
The coffee was pre-packaged as a capsule or pod thus you only need to put the individual capsule or pod into the coffee machine. Once you touch the bottom, the capsule or pod of coffee is penetrated and hot water flows through it and finally into a jug below. You are likely to benefit from it for it is really simple to clean. Nowadays, the type and number of capsule and pod is increasing, which means you have more choices.
Percolator
A percolator is often composed of a pot and a cover with a base, a pump stem and basket inside. Hot water bubbles up through the pump stem and goes into the basket with grounds inside. Percolators can be used on the stovetop or open fire, and there are also electric ones which are provided with a heating element.
Pump espresso maker
What is pump espresso maker? It often contains a temperature-controlled boiler which makes sure that water is heated to the optimal temperature ranging from 85 degree to 92 degree for brewing coffee. When the requirement of temperature is met, hot water goes through the finely ground coffee with nine bar of pressure, which produces extremely concentrated and rich coffee. Want to know more detailed about this kind of machine? Read coffee maker page on wikipedia here.
Bean-to-cup
It is actually a combination of a pump espresso maker and a built-in grinder. It firstly grinds the coffee beans then allows hot water passes through them and finally drips delicious coffee.
After all, you may want to know more about coffee makers? I advise you read some articles about Cuisinart DGB-550BK and other machines.