Have you ever woken up from an all night bender, hazy and disoriented, unable to free yourself from the safety of your bed? Never mind pouring concentric circles into a Chemex, the room is already moving in concentric circles. You want to scream, โ€œcoffee!โ€ and it just happens. And if you live in solitude or the person you are cohabiting with is in a further state of disrepair than you are, coffee isn’t just happening. Unless you have the new Behmor Connected Brewer. With its Amazon connectivity, you can just say, โ€œAlexa, start brewing my coffee,โ€ and boomโ€”youโ€™ve got coffee.

The Connected Brewer is the โ€œworldโ€™s first SCA-approved smart brewer,โ€ according to a Behmor press release. The eight-cup brewer can control temperature to 1ยฐF and can range from 190 to 210ยฐ. It also has a programmable pre-soak/bloom and can be controlled from a phone app.

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But more importantly, itโ€™s got voice control. When paired with Amazon Echo, you can yell at your coffee maker and it will respond. Whatโ€™s more, the Connected Brewer also utilizes Amazon Dash and can reorder you coffee when youโ€™re running low.

The Behmor Connected Brewer runs $199, which is on par with other SCA-approved automatic home brewers, and can be purchased through Amazon (no doi).

Iโ€™m more or a manual pour-over person myself, but if after a night of tying one on (or two or three) I can just say, โ€œstart brewing my coffeeโ€ with minimal additional effort, then Iโ€™d gladly pay $200.

Zac Cadwaladerย is the news editor at Sprudge Media Network.

*top image via Behmor

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