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The Bonavita Enthusiast is designed for coffee lovers who want exceptional coffee without complicated equipment. Built around the core principles of specialty coffee brewing—precise temperature control, even extraction, and reliable consistency—it delivers a clean, balanced cup that brings out the best in your coffee beans.
SCA Certified and Golden Cup approved, the Enthusiast meets the same brewing standards trusted by specialty cafés. By maintaining the ideal brewing temperature and timing, it ensures optimal extraction and flavor clarity with every brew.
For those who want to take their coffee even further, the optional Bloom function pre-infuses freshly ground coffee before brewing. This step allows gases to release and water to saturate the grounds evenly, improving extraction and enhancing the depth and balance of flavor.
Thoughtfully designed for everyday use, the Bonavita Enthusiast combines simple operation, dependable performance, and long-term durability. The result is a coffee maker that fits naturally into your routine while consistently delivering café-quality coffee at home.
The Bonavita Enthusiast is officially certified by the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA), meeting the industry’s rigorous standards for brewed coffee quality.
Developed by leading coffee science experts, the SCA Golden Cup standard evaluates key brewing factors such as precise water temperature, optimal brewing time, and consistent extraction. These benchmarks ensure coffee is brewed within the parameters required to achieve balanced flavor and clarity in every cup.
Based on decades of research from the Coffee Brewing Center, SCA certification confirms that the Bonavita Enthusiast delivers the level of performance trusted by coffee professionals and enthusiasts alike.
The result is a brewing experience designed to consistently produce clean, balanced, specialty-quality coffee at home.
In areas with hard water, minerals can gradually build up inside your coffee maker. Regular descaling helps maintain optimal brewing performance and ensures great-tasting coffee day after day.
Follow these steps to descale your machine:
For best performance, we recommend descaling your brewer after approximately every 100 uses, or more frequently in areas with very hard water.
Café Quality
4-8 Cups
Stainless Steel
6 Minute Brew
Free Shipping
Easy Returns
1 Year Warranty
TASTE THE DIFFERENCE
The Enthusiast is built around the SCA-Certified fundamentals that make coffee taste right through proper brewing temperature, even extraction, and reliable timing. By focusing on what actually matters, it delivers a clean, balanced cup every time, without extra steps or constant adjustment.
Small details, thoughtfully handled. The filter basket features a drip-stop design that prevents dripping when removed, helping keep your counter clean during and after brewing.
consistency comes from coverage. A precision showerhead evenly saturates coffee grounds during brewing, promoting uniform extraction and a clean, well-balanced cup.
Better extraction, when you want it. Freshly ground coffee benefits from a short pre-infusion before brewing. The optional Bloom function allows coffee to degas first, helping improve the flavor.
Nothing unnecessary. Everything intentional. From its compact footprint to its cord placement, the Enthusiast is designed to fit cleanly into your kitchen and your routine, without visual or functional clutter.
Overall rating: 4.7540984 / 5 from 61 reviews.
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"Lovely designed product. Makes great coffee. It looks nice on my counter and looks good with my stainless steel appliances. I look forward to my morning coffee."
"It brews good coffee. But I wish the water reservoir cover was attached as a flip top cover. Also, have had it for a week and the machine does not automatically power off like the manual says it should. I have to manually power it off."
"This is a beautifully put-together machine, that appears to be very simple and of high quality materials. Anxious to make a better coffee with this, have been kinda waiting for our Ninja to finally quit, as it seems pretty tired."
"I’m quite pleased with how smooth the process was with ordering and then the first brew was just as amazing great product. Thanks David"
"Hello, I recently purchased and today received a new Bonavita Enthusiast 8-Cup Coffee Brewer with the stainless-steel thermal carafe. Before using it for coffee, I washed and thoroughly rinsed all the removable parts and then began running plain water through the brewer. The instructions recommend running at least two full water-only brew cycles before use. I have now completed approximately seven full brew cycles, but after every cycle there is still a thin, oily-looking film floating on the surface of the collected hot water. I have not brewed any coffee in the machine because I am uncomfortable drinking from it while this unexplained residue continues to appear. I have tried to isolate the source as follows: - Every brew cycle has used filtered water from a new Frigidaire refrigerator. - I put hot water from the faucet into the removable reservoir and observed no film. I did tge same with the filter basket but still no film. - I placed the filtered water directly into the black filter basket, where a surface film would be relatively easy to see, and observed no film. - I filled the thermal carafe directly with hot tap water and observed no film. - I initially washed the removable parts with a small amount of dish detergent and rinsed them thoroughly. - I have repeatedly rinsed the filter basket and carafe with hot water after each cycle. - The oily-looking film appears only after the water has passed through the brewer’s heated internal water process. After approximately seven complete flushing cycles, I do not believe this should still be occurring in a new coffee brewer. I sent this in with a proto and pdf or my purchase receipt, asking to please advise whether this is a known issue and what the residue could be. Unless there is a clear and documented explanation showing that this is normal and safe, I would like either a replacement unit or a refund. So far, I bhave had no reply, so what I was looking forward to has become a great disappointment. Steve Young"
"Love, love, love my enthusiast 8-cup drip coffee. It is so easy to use; love the carafe and the bloom feature. Can't say enough good things about it."
"This coffee maker is sooo great! Makes great coffee and the carafe keeps the coffee warm for hours!"
"Used it a couple times everything works as it should. I wish the cord was a foot longer."
"Great flavor, took just a few try’s to adjust, at 5:30 am, from our old Bonavita."
"This is my second Bonavita. Previous lasted more than 10 years. Loved my first and upgraded to the Enthusiast. I am very happy with my purchase and highly recommend!"
