Patent ID: 7987767

Claim:
A beverage making system including a beverage making apparatus and a plurality of capsules containing components of a multicomponent beverage, the apparatus comprising: a holder for holding a capsule containing a component of a multicomponent beverage; a source of hot liquid and an injector for injecting the hot liquid into the capsule held in the holder to brew the beverage component in the capsule; and a control system and display programmed to prompt sequential steps of brewing instructions for a user to carry out in response to the user's command to brew a multicomponent beverage, wherein the control system program and display includes means to direct the user to sequentially brew a first and second component of said multicomponent beverage selected from the plurality of capsules, wherein the program means includes the following prompts for carrying out the following sequential steps in response to the user's command to brew a multicomponent beverage: (a) insert a first capsule containing the first component of the multicomponent beverage into the holder; (b) wait while the first beverage component is brewed from the first capsule; (c) insert a second capsule containing the second component of the multicomponent beverage into the holder; and (d) wait while the second beverage component is brewed from the second capsule; wherein the performance of the sequential steps results in the brewing of a single multicomponent beverage.