Today there are more choices than at any other time.  Coffee equipment has become very specialized, so your decision has become tougher.  The exciting part is that we can give you anything from a basic coffee set up all the way to your very own mini coffee shop.  Mastercraft’s goal is to educate you on what is available and make recommendations meeting your stated objectives.  Yet you are in control and we are thrilled to serve you, the way you want to be served.

Glass Pot Brewers
Traditionally coffee has been brewed into glass pot brewers, and even today some customers prefer this old friend as their brewer, and we are happy to accommodate them. They come in automatic brewers that are attached to a water line, just push a button to make a pot of coffee.  They also come in Pour Over brewers where you take a water pitcher to the sink and then you pour it over the top to make a pot of coffee.

Yet today we feel there are better ways to brew coffee.  The most common form is the Airpot brewer as pictured below.

Thermal Brewers - Air Pots
Air pot brewers have become the new standard method to deliver coffee. They are the new standard because they keep coffee fresher for longer periods of time, by brewing right into a thermos.  
Air pot brewers use standard outlets and generally they are plumbed units, with a hot water spigot.  The airpot has a pump handle at the top, when it is pumped it quickly dispenses a cup of coffee. It also has an integrated carrying handle, which makes the airpot very transportable. The regular sized brewer is appropriate for 90% of the applications, and there are very large brewers generally used in a food service operation where huge capacity in needed.
(Air Pot Brewer is 21 5/8” high, and 8 ½” wide)

Eliminating “Cook Down” Means… Fresher Coffee
The heating plates employed by conventional glass pots, and some large batch brewers burns the coffee by driving off the water and oxidizing the oils, making the coffee progressively stronger and acidic and leaving that burned, bitter smell which characterizes many serving areas.
The key is retaining the heat from the original brewing process, not adding heat from an additional source.  Airpots are a thermal brewer, which means that they are brewed into a thermos.  The thermos is well insulated and it keeps coffee hot for a long, long time.

Less Coffee Waste
You will appreciate the reduced coffee waste provided by the thermal servers.  Because people will no longer throw away a half-used pot because they don't like the taste caused by ‘cook down’.

Thermal Brewers - Programable Stength
All the benefits of the standard airpot brewers and now you can also choose the strength of the coffee, “Mild”, “Classic”, or “Strong” while using the same bag of coffee.  The coffee strength is changed by altering the programming.  Each program uses different brew temperatures, the length of the brew cycle, and the amount of water used. One version of this brewer can be configured to fit under a standard cabinet height of 18”. 
The brewer also can be set up to serve into an airpot, gravity server, or a carafe.  This is one flexible thermal brewing system.

Thermal Brewers - Gravity Servers
Gravity Server brewers have many benefits in common with the airpot brewers.  One additional benefit is that the server has a sight glass showing how much coffee is remaining in the server. 
Our concerns with these servers are three fold.  One the sight glass cannot easily be cleaned.  So over time a dark coffee film covers the sight glass and people think the whole server is dirty when actually it is only the sight glass.  Secondly since gravity is allowing the coffee flow out instead of a pump, it takes longer to serve a cup. Lastly since the cup area is only 4 ¾” high it will not accept tall cups or travel mugs.

Thermal Brewers - Super Bowl
Super Bowl Brewers are what you need when you do not have enough height for a standard airpot brewer.  Because it is only 16” tall, this lower profile is just what the doctor ordered in the limited space applications.
The only shortcoming is a shorter holding time compared to some other thermal brewers.  Super Bowl Brewers hold coffee good and hot for about four hours, as opposed to almost 24 hours.  Yet, we always recommend coffee be consumed within 4 hours anyway.  Super Bowl Brewers are a significant improvement over the glass pot brewers, because we avoid the bitter taste from coffee “cook down”.