Patent ID: 8800430

Claim:
A beverage brewing system for combining heated water with a beverage substance to produce and control the strength of a beverage, the brewing system including a heated water reservoir, a controllable water delivery system coupled to the heated water reservoir and to a preprogrammed controller to facilitate controlled movement of water from the heated water reservoir to a beverage substance container positioned in communication with the water delivery system for receiving water and infusing a beverage substance contained in the beverage substance container, the preprogrammed controller having preprogrammed settings for the volume of water which is dispensed during each brew cycle, the length of time during which water is not dispensed between neighboring pulse brew periods, the length of time for an initial on-time, and the total period of time for dispensing a given volume of water, a brew water control system coupled to the preprogrammed controller and operable to provide adjustable, approximate, non-incremental, non-discrete user control of defined beverage characteristics to control a volume of water provided by the water delivery system, the preprogrammed controller receiving and interpreting the user adjusted, approximate, non-discrete control information and being operable to adjust the timing control of the volume of water dispensed by the controllable water delivery system to the beverage substance container in a discrete manner so as to affect the strength of the beverage being brewed.