The perfect brewer has to be simple and easy to use. The paper is easy to put in and you don't need to pre-wet or do any fancy pre-brew rituals. Grind, dose, and pour into the Melodrip - from there on it's up to you how much more you want to do. You don't even need a gooseneck kettle and due to the lack of bypass, it's harder to get a brew that tastes bad. Once you're done, it's very easy to clean - just unscrew, knock the puck out and rinse under the sink - simple. Use our simple 2 pour recipes, or more complex ones too - it's up to you how you want to enjoy this little brilliant device.

Imagine baking an apple pie, but 10% of your apples are not ripe and 60% are over-ripe. The overall pie may still taste okay, or sometimes interesting, but overall will taste a bit off. BYPASS does the same, by introducing a big portion of bad quality extraction into the mix. Besides that - to reach the same extraction levels, it means that we have to over-extract the rest of the composition to reach an enjoyable extraction level and over-compensate for the bypass in the brew. Brewing without bypass reduces this imbalance significantly, amplifying the positive aspects of the coffee, producing a cup with less astringency, less dryness, cleaner acidity, and higher clarity of flavour.

We were humbled to be awarded two prestigious design awards for the Z1 Brewer before we even launched it. The US-based Design Masterprize Award awarding us the coveted Best of the Best award and the EU-based European Product Design Award awarding the Z1 as the best product design in the Coffee and Tea products category.  Here's to many more!