We were so excited to receive this coffeemaker as ours is on its way out. It has a lot more features than your average coffee maker such as over ice and cold brew as well as a really nice drip stop feature to stop the coffee from making a mess of the hot plate after brewing. This machine was really easy to setup and use which we appreciated. Unfortunately we didn’t find it to make very good coffee. It was super bitter and the gold setting seemed to perform very similarly to the bold setting. We might just not have the palate for “gold” standard coffee as this machine is supposed to brew to a high standard, but we just found it to be much too acidic. The cold brew setting is better as it dilutes a bit with ice. Overall this is a nice machine and hopefully we can dial in the settings better somehow to figure out how to make the coffee more drinkable. I received this product from Braun and Influenster in exchange for my honest opinion.