La Marzocco Linea Micra
The Micra is a genuine La Marzocco — saturated group, dual stainless boilers, commercial parts — scaled to a kitchen counter.
🏆 Best Coffee Machines of 2026
Our annual awards. Every winner earned its place through weeks of side-by-side testing in the BrewAuthority lab — temperature logs, blind tastings and daily use. One winner and one runner-up per category, no ties, no participation trophies.
☕ Espresso Machines
🥇 Winner
Breville Barista Express Impress
The Barista Express Impress takes the best-selling home espresso machine ever made and fixes its weakest link: puck prep.
🥈 Runner-up
🤖 Automatic Coffee Machines
Jura E8
The E8 is the sweet spot of Jura's range and, for our money, of the entire super-automatic category.
🥇 Winner
Jura Z10
The Z10 is the most capable coffee machine ever sold for a kitchen counter: hot and genuine cold-brew extraction from one machine, a Product Recognising Grinder that re-adjusts electrically per drink, and 32 specialties from ristretto to cold brew latte.
🥈 Runner-up
🫘 Bean-to-Cup Machines
Breville Oracle Jet
The Oracle Jet is the machine for people torn between a super-automatic and a real espresso machine — because it's both.
🥇 Winner
De'Longhi Eletta Explore
The Eletta Explore is De'Longhi's kitchen-sink machine: hot espresso, the superb LatteCrema milk system, and a dedicated Cold Extraction mode with a separate cold-milk carafe for iced lattes and cold foam.
🥈 Runner-up
💊 Single Serve Coffee Makers
Nespresso Creatista Plus
Built by Breville, the Creatista Plus bolts a genuine automatic steam wand onto an Original-line Nespresso — the only pod machine that produces true microfoam for latte art.
🥇 Winner
Nespresso Vertuo Plus
The Vertuo Plus is the default answer to 'which pod machine should I buy?' Centrifusion extraction spins each barcode-scanned capsule at up to 7,000 rpm, brewing five cup sizes from espresso to a 14oz mug — all crowned with Vertuo's signature thick crema.
🥈 Runner-up
🫗 Drip Coffee Makers
Technivorm Moccamaster KBGV Select
Handmade in the Netherlands since 1968, repairable forever, and guaranteed to brew at a perfect 196–205°F: the Moccamaster is the drip machine every other drip machine is measured against.
🥇 Winner
Breville Precision Brewer Thermal
The Precision Brewer is a brewing computer: six modes from SCA-spec Gold Cup to cold brew, adjustable bloom time, flow rate and temperature, and an adapter that turns it into an automatic pour-over machine for your V60 or Melitta cone.
🥈 Runner-up
🍶 French Press
Espro P7
The P7 fixes the French press's two eternal complaints — sludge and over-steeping — with a patented double micro-filter basket that's 9–12× finer than standard mesh and seals the grounds away when you plunge.
🥇 Winner
Fellow Clara
Fellow applied its Stagg-kettle design brain to the French press: vacuum-insulated steel, a nonstick interior that sheds grounds with one rinse, ratio marks etched inside so you don't need a scale, and an agitator lid for even extraction.
🥈 Runner-up
⏳ Pour Over Equipment
Hario V60 Size 02 (Ceramic)
Sixty-degree walls, spiral ribs, one big hole: the V60 is the most influential brewer in specialty coffee and still the one to learn on.
🥇 Winner
Fellow Stagg EKG Electric Kettle
The Stagg EKG is the pour over world's default kettle for a reason: to-the-degree temperature control from 135–212°F, a counterbalanced handle and a spout that pours exactly where you aim at exactly the rate you intend.
🥈 Runner-up
⚙️ Coffee Grinders
1Zpresso J-Ultra
The J-Ultra embarrasses electric grinders three times its price: 48mm titanium-coated conical burrs on dual bearings, an external dial with 8-micron clicks fine enough for genuine espresso dialing, and machining that feels aerospace.
🥇 Winner
Baratza Encore ESP
The Encore made 'buy a Baratza' the default advice of a generation; the ESP makes it espresso-literate.
🥈 Runner-up
🥛 Milk Frothers
Subminimal NanoFoamer PRO
The NanoFoamer PRO is the first standalone frother that earns the word 'microfoam': it heats to your set temperature, then spins milk through a fine screen into genuinely glossy, latte-art-capable texture — pitcher-shaped, spouted, ready to pour a rosetta.
🥇 Winner
Nespresso Aeroccino 4
The Aeroccino 4 is the frother the entire category imitates: one button, four modes (hot thin, hot dense, hot flat, cold), and a fully dishwasher-safe jug — a first for the line.
🥈 Runner-up
🛠️ Coffee Accessories
Urnex Cafiza Cleaning Tablets (100ct)
Cafiza is what actual cafés backflush with, in tablet form for home machines: 100 pre-measured espresso-machine detergent tablets that dissolve the rancid coffee oils silently ruining your shots.
🥇 Winner
Normcore WDT Distribution Tool
WDT — Weiss Distribution Technique — is the single highest-impact espresso technique of the decade, and this is its best-executed tool: seven 0.35mm needles on a weighted, magnetic-capped handle that rakes clumps out of your grounds before tamping.
🥈 Runner-up