Patent ID: 9149149
Filing Date: 2015-10-06
Classification: A23F,A47J,B65D

Abstract:
1. A method of brewing a beverage from either one of a first beverage cartridge having a beverage ingredient therein and a second beverage cartridge having a beverage ingredient therein, which is taller than the first beverage cartridge, with a brewer having an inlet needle, a first outlet needle, and a second outlet needle, the method comprising the steps of: piercing the first beverage cartridge with the inlet needle and, at a first predetermined piercing location within the brewer, piercing the first beverage with the first outlet needle; not piercing the first beverage cartridge at a second predetermined piercing location within the brewer, that is vertically offset from the first predetermined piercing location, with the second outlet needle; injecting liquid into the first beverage cartridge with the inlet needle; and draining beverage from within the first beverage cartridge with the first outlet needle.