Fellow - Aiden Precision Coffee Maker

Fellow Aiden is pricey but dead simple to change for any coffee amounts. You enter in the sweet spot for coffee to water ratio for your particular brand of coffee and then the next time you just dial in the number of cups you want and it tells you how many grams of coffee to add and it consumes the right amount of water automatically. And its bloom mode is awesome.

A Moccamaster has remained in an elite tier of coffee machines for a long time for a reason; it makes really good coffee...though if I were OP and deadset on buying one, I'd get one with an insulated carafe, rather than one with a glass carafe on a hot plate. But best non espresso coffee bar none is a bold claim. With admittedly more work, doing a pour over (or sometimes french press, depending on what sort of beans I had and what I was trying to get from them), I could pretty consistently get coffee that was better than what a Moccamaster could do, and although I have plenty of experience and might be a bit better than average, I don't think I'm particularly excellent at pour overs (I do think my french press technique is better than most, but that's a whole different conversation...). Now, however, I've got a Fellow Aiden and have had to grudgingly concede that the machine can make coffee just as well--if not better in many instances--than I could. But I've only had the Aiden for \~6 months, so we'll see if its longevity can match a Moccamaster; it's certainly more fiddly and thus with more potential failure points than a Moccamaster.

Yall coffee people don't know a normal day in life for sure. OP wants a good, simple, automatic and programmable brewing method, and yall blast him with your v60s and chemex. Im sure OP loves a nice espresso or a rich cup from a french press, but when you're in a rush to work cause your alarm didn't go off, or you have 4 kids to take care of in the morning, you don't have 5-10 minutes to make that fuzz for a coffee. He surely knows there are better methods, but for the average working person, a drip coffee it's all you need during a week workday. So, answering your question, my brother in Christ, you didn't gave us a budget, so I will assume that's not a problem for you. My recommendation has to be the Fellow Aiden Precision Coffee Maker. It's a little pricey at $400, but I swear to God it's worth every penny. Check the video from James, he covers it all. His complaints from the machine are outrageous to me lol, but he is more picky. I have one and I love it, my life and my coffee improved substantially.

Fellow Aiden is great. Have had mine for like 4 months and it does exactly what you describe. Easiest coffee maker I’ve ever used

I have had my Aiden since September 2024 and I absolutely love it. My grinder is the Fellow Ode Gen2 and I couldn’t be happier with it. I have stopped making pour overs because the quality of the cup is so much better with the Aiden.

most of that list is fine for casual coffee drinkers but if we’re being honest, the only two worth talking about are the moccamaster and the fellow aiden. the moccamaster has been the gold standard for decades, built like a tank and dead simple, but it’s old school as in no scheduling, no fancy bloom programming, just hot water at the right temp and consistency. the fellow is the one that actually pushed drip brewers forward. precise control over temp, adjustable bloom, batch vs single-cup modes, proper thermal carafe that doesn’t ruin flavor after an hour. it’s the first smart machine that isn’t gimmicky. one thing that matters more than most people realize is the grinder. you can drop a few hundred on a brewer but if your grind is inconsistent, the cup will always taste flat or muddy. a [good gevi](https://noxohub.github.io/radar/?q=OXU44898) grinder paired with something like the fellow is where you actually notice the difference, even cheap beans taste cleaner when the grind is uniform. everything else on that list has compromises, oo plasticky, temp swings, or designed for versatility at the cost of straight drip quality. if the question is best drip coffee maker right now, it’s between those two, and i’d lean fellow just because it nails modern features without screwing up the fundamentals.

The same basket and shower screen that works for doses of 40 to 100g won’t work well for smaller doses. That’s why it switches to steep and release for smaller doses. The Aiden switches baskets and shower patterns based on the size of the dose.

What he said,, the MM is simple & reliable, but arguably you might be able to get a bit more refined coffee by dropping the the temp 2 degrees. If you need that sort of control, the Aiden is the one, but all that complexity will come at a cost in reliability. Personally I’d expect 5 -8 years out of the Aiden.

The Aiden is my favorite coffee maker ever, and I have owned quite a few (Melitta Clarity, 2 Bonavita, Oxo 9 cup, Oxo 8 cup, and Technivorm KGBT). It excels at both single cup and batch brew. There is an issue with the flow meter getting clogged but Fellow is very good about supporting it and replacing the machine if this happens.

I bought an Aiden, and have never made a pourover again. I use the single basket 95% of the time, and have done approximately 400 brews.

Set up your Aiden with the correct instant brew parameters and it's set and forget as well.

I had one for about a year and determined it was my brew size. It's way easier to get a great tasting batch when your making 500+ ml than 1 or 2 cups (which was my normal use case). I ended up getting rid of it and getting an Aiden and I'm much much happier. Even brewing a single cup I can get a great tasting one basically every time.