today we're going to review this
it's the precision Brewer from sage or
Breville depending where you are in the
world for me it's sage and I'm gonna
tell you why this has been my go-to
Brewer for the last two years at home
this review has been two years in the
making it's because about two years ago
Saves got in touch and said can we send
you a machine let us know what you think
and I said sure that would be good and I
and I got it took at home and it was
kind of like a US version but with the
UK power through it
it wasn't the dedicated UK machine that
was gonna come a couple months later two
years later well here we are they've
finally released the Machine and I
gathered they had some issues the UK
London in particular has very hard water
and they found that a challenge in
testing for this Brewer in this market
so they've gone away changed a few
things added some upgrades I'll talk
about that in a second and it is now
available so it's a kind of order one
for me most of my reviews are powered by
patreon it means I go and buy products
and I don't owe anyone anything this is
different because this was sent to me
originally or the first one before I had
a patreon and I said I would review it
and I will honor my commitment but know
that unlike other patreon reviews this
was sent to me by the manufacturer I'm
not being paid to make the video if they
don't get any influence or input into
the video but you should know I didn't
pay for this and I've had one for two
years so let's dive into some just a
quick overview specs of this whole thing
it's an interesting approach to home
brewers it's two hundred and fifty
pounds in the UK which puts it at the
upper end of the this sort of small
batch Brewer market for the home but not
at the very top which i think is
interesting it's a very sage product it
looks like a sage product it feels like
a safe product the brush metals they use
the kind of plastics the whole design
aesthetic is very sage and if you like
that you'll like this if you hate that
you'll hate this but I like it I've got
a couple safe things at home and it kind
of fits for me unusually this thing can
brew up to 1.8 liters which is a lot of
coffee certainly for the home that's a
lot of cups of coffee in the morning for
a family but it doesn't
to brew it that kind of volume it does a
kind of clever thing inside the brew
basket
you've got to brew sort of cones you've
got one cone like this which is designed
to use the kind of Malita style papers I
really like the fill troper papers
myself but if you take that out you've
actually got a kind of flat bottom de
Brewer and it does come with papers for
it so you can brew larger volumes in
this with the cone bro which is my
preferred Brewer you can brew up to 1.2
litres which frankly there's a lot it's
enough it's more than I would need but
the extra is kind of interesting
more than that you don't even have to
use this brew basket there is an adapter
set that lets you put in a v60 or a
colita or something chance to showerhead
and change the sort of piece here where
it sits and you can use whatever flat
bottom to pour over brewery you want
whatever cone-shaped brewery you want
you've got it you want to use it you can
use it you can have an automated version
of the thing that you brew with all the
rest of the time that's kind of cool it
does also come with a metal filter
basket if you want to do that if you
want to go zero waste and not use paper
whatsoever this is an option I'm
generally not a huge fan of these things
I like them in principle I just
personally always prefer the taste of
paper filter to coffee underneath you've
got a carafe it is a thermal carafe
which is good they do I think a version
that it's glass with the heating plate
that nobody should buy ever just give
the thermal carafe just get the thermal
carafe and then the tanks at the back
pretty simple pretty obvious so far in
the tank in the UK now they've added one
extra thing which is this it's a water
softener it's a little filter it lasts
about three months and so you just set
it and it will soften your water when
you turn on the machine for the first
time it will ask you how hard your water
is there's a test strip and stuff that
basically tells the Machine how often to
prompt you to descale it while this is
nice I would still strongly recommend
just putting good soft clean water into
your machine and not letting this do the
the softening but if you have no option
then this is a good thing so now we need
to talk about why this is called the
precision brewer why ads are sort of
smarter than average brewer and and how
the features inside might stack up to
other Brewers in the market so in the
control panel day to day there are three
settings that you can use as kind of
pre-programmed settings for brewing they
are fast gold and strong and they're
really gonna change the flow rate for
the machine fast brew is designed to
just pump more water into the basket
quicker allowing your brew to happen in
a quicker way in the morning I've never
really wanted to use that nothing about
faster appeals to me but it's a function
it's available and again strong yeah
that's gonna be sort of more extracted
which in many ways is often good but for
me I used the gold setting or I use my
own programming most of the time now you
can go in and set up what's called my
brew it's kind of custom brewing setup
with that you can control the bloom
volume as well as the bloom time you can
control your overall flow rate from very
slow to much quicker and then you can
control your brew temperature and that
gives you single degree Celsius
increments to change your brew
temperature which is extremely accurate
so this is kind of billed as being a
very controllable very programmable
brewer that does deliver consistent
temperature and in my experience yet it
really does so beyond that there's a
couple more things to talk about in the
menu one of which I'm not super
interested in which is the cold brew
functionality it's designed to sort of
run overnight so you can have it run for
a hang up to 14 hours where it'll slowly
pump water cold water into your brew
basket you don't put the lid on the
carafe it steeps it for a long time and
then eventually drains it I don't really
like the taste of coffee brewed that way
that's just me so I've had no interest
whatsoever in using it I don't use it
there's one more thing though that I do
use on this but I'm a little bit ashamed
of in a way this machine has an auto
start and sometimes sometimes I might
grind my coffee before going to bed and
put it in the brew basket and have the
machine come on at like 6:00 in the
morning if I have to get up early and I
kind of love getting up to fresh made
coffee
it's it's a wonderful thing I'm aware
that grinding fresh is best but I'm also
aware that if it's an eight-hour window
yeah I'm losing something
but I'm not the world's most perceptive
coffee taster at 6:00 in the morning I
just want it to taste really good so I'm
happy to lose a little bit of aromatic
complexity in exchange for someone
having me a fresh pot of coffee ready at
6:00 a.m. that's the deal
so I use that more than I suspect I
should tell people I do I like it it's a
nice little function it's not unique to
this but it's a nice function to have
there so so far I've had nothing really
bad to say about this brewer and in
fairness I have really enjoyed using it
for the last two years it's been a
steady staple reliable part of my
morning brewing routine that doesn't
mean that I have no complaints or
quibbles or things that I should
highlight along the way so firstly the
water tank in the UK version they've
done a kind of annoying thing to me
they've converted it from Imperial to
metric thank you very much but they have
left the lines in the same place which
were I think 20 30 40 ounces and then I
think 60 ounces for the largest size so
on here you've got like a like a 900 mil
mark
I'm just not growing 900 mils of coffee
very much I would like a litre mark I
would like a half liter mark I just feel
that's a reasonable thing to ask for
I've come to accept this I mean I'm
already brewing us ratios at home but I
had hoped with the release of a UK
brewer they'd have just that have just
gone in at the kind of half 1 liter
thing you know now when it comes to the
two Brewers in here I think the
cone-shaped Brewer brews significantly
better than the flat bottoms brewer my
theory is it's the shower head that's
really optimized for that kind of cone
shape in terms of coverage in terms of
agitation disruption as it's brewing it
brews really nicely I just struggled to
match the quality on the 1.8 liter brews
on the flat bottom - Bruce even with the
thicker bed depth it just I've just
struggled to really really really get
the same quality in the cup it's a funny
thing but I also wish this was a
removable water container I think there
are a couple of Brewers out there like
the top end wilfer Brewer where you can
just take the water tank out it just
makes it easier to fill I just I think
it's a nicer
variants it's not particularly difficult
to do I don't think this has to be
mounted on here with the carafe I do
like the design but it suffers the same
frustrations that every carafe suffers
which is you can't pour out absolutely
everything there's always just like a
little bit left over I don't understand
it it's in every carafe and it just
makes me angry when you're brewing with
the the cone-shaped filter some coffee
will get out into the kind of open
basket area it just prints out the cone
and don't remove this you will not rinse
out all the coffee that's under here so
it's easy to have a little bit of
accumulation here you know and you'll
pull this out now and gonna be like and
it needs it clean so I was a bit lazier
to start with until I open this up one
day and was slightly disgusted with
myself but just be aware you need to
pull this out every time to clean it
properly and so there it is
there is the sage precision brewer it's
a brewer that I have enjoyed using for
two years at two hundred and fifty
pounds it's not cheap but I think it's
actually a pretty great investment in
your morning Bruce I think if you need
something to do larger volumes something
like one and a half to two liters often
then I would buy a small commercial
Brewer they're not much more expensive
but the showerhead and basket combo is
usually a little bit more effective at
brewing that way that said I can't think
of many cheaper commercial Brewers that
have the level of control and
programmability that this thing has so I
could see these in small offices you
know it's batch brew in cafes that does
so much batch brew I have no idea on
commercial warranties but at home it's
good it's big no question and you know
that's a big old thing I'm okay with
that I've got the space it's never
really bothered me but so in comparison
to other Brewers in the past I've had
both a tank a home and also that the
sort of high-end wilfer brewery as well
I liked both of those Brewers I I enjoy
to the coffee that they made but neither
of them had the kind of feature set and
the reliability and the control that
this thing has it's it's a different
Brewer in many regards to those Brewers
I'm genuinely impressed
and I find it an easy recommendation and
so I'd really be interested to hear from
you do you have one of these I mean
these have been out for two three years
and a lot of the world do you still have
it do you still use it everyday have you
had issues that I haven't mentioned yet
what did I miss what didn't I talk about
I'd really be interested to hear your
thoughts then maybe there's another
Brewer at the price point that I'm just
not seeing that I should check out leave
me a comment down below I'm gonna say
thank you so much for watching I hope
you have a great day
it's the precision Brewer from sage or
Breville depending where you are in the
world for me it's sage and I'm gonna
tell you why this has been my go-to
Brewer for the last two years at home
this review has been two years in the
making it's because about two years ago
Saves got in touch and said can we send
you a machine let us know what you think
and I said sure that would be good and I
and I got it took at home and it was
kind of like a US version but with the
UK power through it
it wasn't the dedicated UK machine that
was gonna come a couple months later two
years later well here we are they've
finally released the Machine and I
gathered they had some issues the UK
London in particular has very hard water
and they found that a challenge in
testing for this Brewer in this market
so they've gone away changed a few
things added some upgrades I'll talk
about that in a second and it is now
available so it's a kind of order one
for me most of my reviews are powered by
patreon it means I go and buy products
and I don't owe anyone anything this is
different because this was sent to me
originally or the first one before I had
a patreon and I said I would review it
and I will honor my commitment but know
that unlike other patreon reviews this
was sent to me by the manufacturer I'm
not being paid to make the video if they
don't get any influence or input into
the video but you should know I didn't
pay for this and I've had one for two
years so let's dive into some just a
quick overview specs of this whole thing
it's an interesting approach to home
brewers it's two hundred and fifty
pounds in the UK which puts it at the
upper end of the this sort of small
batch Brewer market for the home but not
at the very top which i think is
interesting it's a very sage product it
looks like a sage product it feels like
a safe product the brush metals they use
the kind of plastics the whole design
aesthetic is very sage and if you like
that you'll like this if you hate that
you'll hate this but I like it I've got
a couple safe things at home and it kind
of fits for me unusually this thing can
brew up to 1.8 liters which is a lot of
coffee certainly for the home that's a
lot of cups of coffee in the morning for
a family but it doesn't
to brew it that kind of volume it does a
kind of clever thing inside the brew
basket
you've got to brew sort of cones you've
got one cone like this which is designed
to use the kind of Malita style papers I
really like the fill troper papers
myself but if you take that out you've
actually got a kind of flat bottom de
Brewer and it does come with papers for
it so you can brew larger volumes in
this with the cone bro which is my
preferred Brewer you can brew up to 1.2
litres which frankly there's a lot it's
enough it's more than I would need but
the extra is kind of interesting
more than that you don't even have to
use this brew basket there is an adapter
set that lets you put in a v60 or a
colita or something chance to showerhead
and change the sort of piece here where
it sits and you can use whatever flat
bottom to pour over brewery you want
whatever cone-shaped brewery you want
you've got it you want to use it you can
use it you can have an automated version
of the thing that you brew with all the
rest of the time that's kind of cool it
does also come with a metal filter
basket if you want to do that if you
want to go zero waste and not use paper
whatsoever this is an option I'm
generally not a huge fan of these things
I like them in principle I just
personally always prefer the taste of
paper filter to coffee underneath you've
got a carafe it is a thermal carafe
which is good they do I think a version
that it's glass with the heating plate
that nobody should buy ever just give
the thermal carafe just get the thermal
carafe and then the tanks at the back
pretty simple pretty obvious so far in
the tank in the UK now they've added one
extra thing which is this it's a water
softener it's a little filter it lasts
about three months and so you just set
it and it will soften your water when
you turn on the machine for the first
time it will ask you how hard your water
is there's a test strip and stuff that
basically tells the Machine how often to
prompt you to descale it while this is
nice I would still strongly recommend
just putting good soft clean water into
your machine and not letting this do the
the softening but if you have no option
then this is a good thing so now we need
to talk about why this is called the
precision brewer why ads are sort of
smarter than average brewer and and how
the features inside might stack up to
other Brewers in the market so in the
control panel day to day there are three
settings that you can use as kind of
pre-programmed settings for brewing they
are fast gold and strong and they're
really gonna change the flow rate for
the machine fast brew is designed to
just pump more water into the basket
quicker allowing your brew to happen in
a quicker way in the morning I've never
really wanted to use that nothing about
faster appeals to me but it's a function
it's available and again strong yeah
that's gonna be sort of more extracted
which in many ways is often good but for
me I used the gold setting or I use my
own programming most of the time now you
can go in and set up what's called my
brew it's kind of custom brewing setup
with that you can control the bloom
volume as well as the bloom time you can
control your overall flow rate from very
slow to much quicker and then you can
control your brew temperature and that
gives you single degree Celsius
increments to change your brew
temperature which is extremely accurate
so this is kind of billed as being a
very controllable very programmable
brewer that does deliver consistent
temperature and in my experience yet it
really does so beyond that there's a
couple more things to talk about in the
menu one of which I'm not super
interested in which is the cold brew
functionality it's designed to sort of
run overnight so you can have it run for
a hang up to 14 hours where it'll slowly
pump water cold water into your brew
basket you don't put the lid on the
carafe it steeps it for a long time and
then eventually drains it I don't really
like the taste of coffee brewed that way
that's just me so I've had no interest
whatsoever in using it I don't use it
there's one more thing though that I do
use on this but I'm a little bit ashamed
of in a way this machine has an auto
start and sometimes sometimes I might
grind my coffee before going to bed and
put it in the brew basket and have the
machine come on at like 6:00 in the
morning if I have to get up early and I
kind of love getting up to fresh made
coffee
it's it's a wonderful thing I'm aware
that grinding fresh is best but I'm also
aware that if it's an eight-hour window
yeah I'm losing something
but I'm not the world's most perceptive
coffee taster at 6:00 in the morning I
just want it to taste really good so I'm
happy to lose a little bit of aromatic
complexity in exchange for someone
having me a fresh pot of coffee ready at
6:00 a.m. that's the deal
so I use that more than I suspect I
should tell people I do I like it it's a
nice little function it's not unique to
this but it's a nice function to have
there so so far I've had nothing really
bad to say about this brewer and in
fairness I have really enjoyed using it
for the last two years it's been a
steady staple reliable part of my
morning brewing routine that doesn't
mean that I have no complaints or
quibbles or things that I should
highlight along the way so firstly the
water tank in the UK version they've
done a kind of annoying thing to me
they've converted it from Imperial to
metric thank you very much but they have
left the lines in the same place which
were I think 20 30 40 ounces and then I
think 60 ounces for the largest size so
on here you've got like a like a 900 mil
mark
I'm just not growing 900 mils of coffee
very much I would like a litre mark I
would like a half liter mark I just feel
that's a reasonable thing to ask for
I've come to accept this I mean I'm
already brewing us ratios at home but I
had hoped with the release of a UK
brewer they'd have just that have just
gone in at the kind of half 1 liter
thing you know now when it comes to the
two Brewers in here I think the
cone-shaped Brewer brews significantly
better than the flat bottoms brewer my
theory is it's the shower head that's
really optimized for that kind of cone
shape in terms of coverage in terms of
agitation disruption as it's brewing it
brews really nicely I just struggled to
match the quality on the 1.8 liter brews
on the flat bottom - Bruce even with the
thicker bed depth it just I've just
struggled to really really really get
the same quality in the cup it's a funny
thing but I also wish this was a
removable water container I think there
are a couple of Brewers out there like
the top end wilfer Brewer where you can
just take the water tank out it just
makes it easier to fill I just I think
it's a nicer
variants it's not particularly difficult
to do I don't think this has to be
mounted on here with the carafe I do
like the design but it suffers the same
frustrations that every carafe suffers
which is you can't pour out absolutely
everything there's always just like a
little bit left over I don't understand
it it's in every carafe and it just
makes me angry when you're brewing with
the the cone-shaped filter some coffee
will get out into the kind of open
basket area it just prints out the cone
and don't remove this you will not rinse
out all the coffee that's under here so
it's easy to have a little bit of
accumulation here you know and you'll
pull this out now and gonna be like and
it needs it clean so I was a bit lazier
to start with until I open this up one
day and was slightly disgusted with
myself but just be aware you need to
pull this out every time to clean it
properly and so there it is
there is the sage precision brewer it's
a brewer that I have enjoyed using for
two years at two hundred and fifty
pounds it's not cheap but I think it's
actually a pretty great investment in
your morning Bruce I think if you need
something to do larger volumes something
like one and a half to two liters often
then I would buy a small commercial
Brewer they're not much more expensive
but the showerhead and basket combo is
usually a little bit more effective at
brewing that way that said I can't think
of many cheaper commercial Brewers that
have the level of control and
programmability that this thing has so I
could see these in small offices you
know it's batch brew in cafes that does
so much batch brew I have no idea on
commercial warranties but at home it's
good it's big no question and you know
that's a big old thing I'm okay with
that I've got the space it's never
really bothered me but so in comparison
to other Brewers in the past I've had
both a tank a home and also that the
sort of high-end wilfer brewery as well
I liked both of those Brewers I I enjoy
to the coffee that they made but neither
of them had the kind of feature set and
the reliability and the control that
this thing has it's it's a different
Brewer in many regards to those Brewers
I'm genuinely impressed
and I find it an easy recommendation and
so I'd really be interested to hear from
you do you have one of these I mean
these have been out for two three years
and a lot of the world do you still have
it do you still use it everyday have you
had issues that I haven't mentioned yet
what did I miss what didn't I talk about
I'd really be interested to hear your
thoughts then maybe there's another
Brewer at the price point that I'm just
not seeing that I should check out leave
me a comment down below I'm gonna say
thank you so much for watching I hope
you have a great day