I was in the market for a good coffee maker to brew  multiple cups of fresh ice coffee and this machine works well for that. As far as hot coffee goes, I prefer to use a single k-cup machine as it's fresh and hot every time. With that said, the Braun PureFlavor brews nicely over ice. There's a great YouTube out there on how to brew ice coffee with this particular machine and is very helpful so you may want to search for that. For me, I'm very happy with this.