Patent ID: 7279190

Claim:
In a beverage brewing system water tank connectable with a source of water and having a brew basket for holding liquid extract ingredient and a mixing chamber for receipt of both the liquid extract ingredient and a quantity of diluent water for mixing together into a beverage, the improvement being a beverage brewing control method comprising the steps of: directly measuring an actual quantity of water flowing from the source of water with a flow meter that measures the actual quantity of water independently of flow rate: and delivering, through a delivery system, water from the source to liquid extract ingredient held within the brew basket to make a liquid beverage extract, passing the liquid beverage extract to the mixing chamber; and selectively controlling, with a controller responsive to the actual quantity of water directly measured by the flow meter, the delivery system to deliver only a preselected amount of the actual quantity of water to at least one of the brew basket and to the mixing chamber.