About Technivorm Moccamaster
Technivorm is a Dutch coffee equipment maker that has hand-built the Moccamaster brewer in the Netherlands since 1968, engineered by industrial engineer Gerard Smit around a design philosophy the company's own name spells out: techniek and vormgeving -- technique and form. The core of that engineering is a copper heating element built to solve one specific problem: most drip machines cannot sustain a stable brew temperature across a full pot, so the water cools as it works through the grounds and the coffee turns sour and thin. Technivorm's fix has outlasted plenty of newer machines built around programmability and touchscreens instead -- more than 10 million Moccamasters have been sold worldwide.
That focus on temperature accuracy over feature count has earned recognition well outside Amazon review counts. Several Moccamaster models are part of the Specialty Coffee Association's Certified Home Brewer Program, and America's Test Kitchen names the Moccamaster KBT its favorite automatic drip coffee maker, praising its copper boiler for rapidly heating water into the 196 to 205 degree F range and holding it there through the brew. Every unit is still individually hand-assembled and inspected at the Technivorm factory and comes with a five-year warranty -- the same combination of certified temperature control and simple, durable build we found testing the KBGV Select ourselves.
Brand website: us.moccamaster.com
What Technivorm Moccamaster makes
Technivorm Moccamaster's range runs wider than the products we review. The lines we know best from our own testing are marked with a star:
KBGV Select
10-cup glass carafe brewer with a half/full-carafe selector switch -- featured on Brew Gazette — featured on Brew Gazette
KBT
best-selling thermal carafe brewer, named an All-Time Favorite by America's Test Kitchen
KBGT
glass carafe brewer with an automatic drip-basket stop
CDT Grand
larger-capacity thermal carafe brewer built for offices and entertaining
Coffee grinders
Technivorm's standalone burr grinder line
Why we recognized Technivorm Moccamaster
The Brew Gazette Top Brand recognition isn't paid for and can't be applied for. We award it to the brands whose products consistently stand out in our hands-on category reviews. Technivorm Moccamaster earned it on the strength of the products below, evaluated the same way every product on this site is: bought, brewed with daily, and judged on what lands in the cup.
Technivorm Moccamaster products we rated highly
Technivorm Moccamaster KBGV Select 10-Cup Coffee Maker
SCA Golden Cup Certified: its copper heating element holds brew water in the 196 to 205 degree F window across the entire brew, the reason its coffee tastes sweet and balanced rather than the sour, thin cup a low-wattage machine produces when its temperature collapses on the last grounds. It brews a full 40-ounce pot in four to six minutes, fast enough to keep the grounds saturated and extracting evenly, and its gravity-fed design with few electronic parts is why owners report a decade or more of daily service, backed by a five-year warranty.
Read the 7 Best Drip Coffee Makers of 2026 guide →What earned Technivorm Moccamaster the recognition
- One of the products we rated highest in Brew Gazette's drip coffee maker testing, on the strength of its cup quality and build durability.
- SCA Golden Cup Certified through the Specialty Coffee Association's Certified Home Brewer Program -- one of only two certified machines in our roundup, evidence its copper heating element holds true brew temperature rather than just claiming to.
- Validated outside our own testing too: America's Test Kitchen names the Moccamaster KBT its favorite automatic drip coffee maker, citing its ability to rapidly heat water into the 196 to 205 degree F range and hold it there.
- Every Moccamaster has been hand-assembled and inspected at the Technivorm factory in the Netherlands since 1968 and is backed by a five-year warranty -- the reason for the decade-plus service life owners report.
- Gravity-fed, low-part-count engineering instead of a feature-heavy build: no pump, minimal electronics, fewer failure points -- a deliberate tradeoff (no programmable timer) in favor of long-term reliability and consistent temperature.