About Perfect Brew Picks
Perfect Brew Picks publishes reviews of espresso machines, grinders, coffee makers, manual brewers and kettles, written from the manufacturer’s own published specifications and documentation. We do not brew with them, and every review says so.
What this site is
A coffee maker listing gives you a bar figure, a wattage, a capacity, a burr size or a boiler type, and a list of features, and leaves you to work out whether any of it matters for the coffee you make. The reviews here take one model at a time and read those numbers for what they imply: whether 20 bar is better than 9 (it is not, and the review says why), whether a 1.8-litre reservoir is a week or a morning, whether a 40 mm conical burr grinds fine enough for espresso or only for drip.
The site covers espresso machines, coffee grinders, drip coffee makers, single-serve & pod brewers, french press, pour-over & moka and electric kettles brewing appliances. Each review sits in one of those categories, and the categories are what the navigation is built around.
What we do not do
We do not pull shots, dial in grinders, time a brew cycle, measure a kettle’s temperature accuracy or taste the coffee. No machine described here has made a cup for us. A review on this site is a reading of what the manufacturer publishes, written for someone deciding whether that model fits the coffee they drink and the counter they have, and we would rather say that plainly than imply hands-on experience we do not have.
We do not publish star ratings, review counts, or exact prices. Where a manufacturer has not published a specification, a review says so instead of guessing.
Who writes this
Lucas Bennett, Editor, is the byline on every review. Lucas is an editorial name rather than a person you could look up, and we would rather say so than let a fabricated biography do work it has not earned. There are no trade credentials behind it, and there should not be: a site that states on every page that it does not brew with brewing appliances has no business presenting an expert as its author.
What stands behind a review is the method, which is written down, and the manufacturer’s published figures, which you can check.
What changed in 2026
For its first year this site reviewed whatever appeared under a coffee search, which meant pods, teas, descaler and storage canisters were reviewed alongside the machines they belong with. In September 2026 we went through all 588 pages and removed 44 from search — coffee pods and capsules, teas and teabags, descaler, storage canisters and tea tins, teapots, a pepper mill and a grain mill. The 543 pages that remain are brewing appliances. The removed pages still exist for anyone who arrives at them, but they are no longer what this site is about and we no longer ask search engines to index them.
Browse by type
- Espresso machines — An espresso machine forces hot water through a puck of fine coffee at about 9 bar.
- Coffee grinders — A grinder decides more of the cup than the machine does.
How the site is funded
Links to Amazon on this site are affiliate links. If you buy through one we earn a commission at no cost to you. The affiliate disclosure explains what that does and does not influence.
Corrections
If a specification in a review is wrong — the manufacturer restated it, the listing changed, or we misread it — it is worth more to us to know than to look right. The contact page says what makes a correction actionable.
Your data
What this site collects about you, which is very little, is set out in the privacy policy.