Best Drip Coffee Makers

At Peak Flavor Coffee, we prefer drip coffee makers with a metal mesh filter because they deliver naturally sweet, mild and creamy drip coffee.

Most households start the day with a drip coffee or filter coffee. Unfortunately, home filter coffee machines often make pretty bad drip coffee. This is primarily because most home drip coffee makers are not capable of heating the water up to the correct temperature. If you’re shopping for a new drip coffee maker for better morning coffee, make sure the drip coffee maker has been certified to reach suitable temperatures. Any drip coffee maker, endorsed by the Specialty Coffee Association probably makes better home coffee.

If you want to have better home coffee, use a drip coffee maker without a hot plate to keep the coffee jug warm. Keeping a jug of coffee on a hot plate quickly “cooks” your drip coffee, producing unpleasant flavors and unnecessary bitterness. A thermal carafe is better suited to keep drip coffee warm for some time.

Any drip coffee maker dissolves and extracts coffee aroma with a filter. The coffee filter in your drip coffee maker determines what taste ends up in your cup and is therefore the most critical element of your drip coffee maker. There are two types of drip coffee filters: paper filters and metal mesh filters.

Paper filters allow for a cleaner drip coffee. Metal mesh filters allow natural coffee oils into your cup, which will make your drip coffee more flavorful and creamier. That is why we prefer drip coffee from a metal mesh coffee filter.

Learn more about our preferences for making better home coffee with different coffee makers: espresso machine, French press, reusable k cups for Keurig coffee maker, pour over coffee, chemex, moka pot or Vietnamese phin coffee.

Healthier Drip Coffee

We believe that drip coffee should be naturally sweet, so you don't need to add calories, artificial flavors, or chemical sweeteners. We call naturally sweet drip coffee healthier drip coffee.

Almost 50% of coffee drinkers wake up and grab a drip coffee from their electric filter machine every morning. Most of us use a commodity coffee bean blend from the grocery store, roasted more than 120 days ago.

Drinking bad quality, old drip coffee has become a habit for lots of people. Most early morning coffee drinkers compensate for the bitter and sour taste by adding artificial flavors or chemical sweeteners. Alternatively, they add extra calories from sugar or milk fat.

With a naturally sweet, fresh roasted coffee bean blend, drip coffee in the morning could be a clean, naturally sweet indulgence that helps you wake up without any need for chemicals or added calories.  

A paper drip coffee filter with the right coffee grinds yields a clean, naturally sweet, and mild coffee. Bleached paper coffee filters produce the cleanest type of filter coffee. Paper coffee filters strain out suspended coffee grinds, as well as natural coffee oils. Using the right coffee bean blend is important if you want indulgent coffee flavor to dissolve and pass through a paper coffee filter.

If you perfectly match the coffee grinds to the paper coffee filter, your drip coffee will be naturally sweet, saves you the chemicals and calories of artificial flavors and added sugar.

At Peak Flavor Coffee, we make drip coffee healthier by delivering naturally sweet drip coffee. We custom blend naturally sweet coffee beans, specifically for your drip coffee. To get naturally sweet drip coffee, we employ Italian roasting with extended caramelization. After custom grinding for your drip coffee maker, we guarantee delivery within 8 days of the roast date, so you can enjoy your drip coffee just when it reaches best or Peak Flavor.

Read here how we make naturally sweet, mild and creamy home coffee for other coffee makers: espresso machine, French press, reusable k cups for Keurig coffee maker, pour over coffee, chemex, moka pot or Vietnamese phin coffee.

Naturally Sweet Drip Coffee

Naturally sweet drip coffee requires a custom coffee bean blend with naturally sweet coffee beans, roasted with extended caramelization to optimize the caramel, honey and vanilla aromas which are naturally present in specialty coffee beans.

For your drip coffee maker, we customize the coffee grinds to match the paper coffee filter. When the fineness of the coffee grinds matches the paper filter, you’ll get a perfectly clean and naturally sweet drip coffee every morning.

The most important contributors to naturally sweet drip coffee, however, is the coffee bean blend and the fresh roast.

At Peak Flavor Coffee, we blend naturally sweet coffee beans, specifically for drip coffee. We include 5% high-grade Robusta coffee beans to an all arabica coffee bean blend to allow for more caffeine. As a morning drip coffee drinker, you will appreciate the extra morning kick.

At Peak Flavor Coffee, we guarantee delivery of your custom drip coffee order to your doorstep within 8 days of the coffee roast, so that you can enjoy your drip coffee just when it reaches best of peak flavor.

Fresh Roasted Drip Coffee

Recognizing a fresh roast for drip coffee is easy: it’s the abundant bloom on your coffee grinds as your drip coffee maker is dripping away.

Just like with espresso crema, you can easily recognize a fresh roasted drip coffee when you get abundant coffee bloom while pouring hot water of the coffee grinds. 

Coffee blooms more abundantly when some of the naturally volatile aromas are still present in the coffee grinds. During the first 8-14 days after coffee roasting, the coffee roast goes through a natural process of degassing. The volatile aromas or gasses cause blooming. Older coffee roasts have mostly degassed and blooming is less abundant.

Roasting fresh to fit your drip coffee maker is an essential characteristic of Peak Flavor Coffee. Read more about how we roast fresh for other home coffee makers: espresso machine, French press, reusable k cups for Keurig coffee maker, pour over coffee, chemex, moka pot or Vietnamese phin coffee.

At Peak Flavor, we deliver a fresh roast for your drip coffee maker to your door within 8 days of the roast, so you can indulge in fresh roasted drip coffee just when your coffee order reaches its best or Peak Flavor.

Adjusting Coffee grinds for best drip coffee taste

If you know your bean blend and roasting method, you can adjust taste for your drip coffee maker by using different coffee grinds. At Peak Flavor coffee, we use a 20-grade Burr Grinding Scale to optimize coffee flavor and strength for each type of coffee maker. 

Using the wrong coffee grind in your drip coffee maker mostly leads to over extraction. Over extraction from too fine a coffee grind makes your drip coffee taste bitter. Using a grind that is too coarse causes under extraction and your drip coffee will be watery.

Without intimate knowledge of coffee bean blends, roasting techniques, and custom coffee grinds, it’s not easy to select the best coffee fit for your home coffee maker. That’s why at Peak Flavor, we provide a custom fit for your drip coffee maker.