An adapter for single serving cartridges includes a coffee maker readable identification feature. The identification feature may be visual (for example any feature which may be read or a bar code), a readable magnetic strip, a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), or any feature able to contain information and provide that information to a reader. The adapter may be configured for known disposable single serving cartridges, and may include one or more needles to puncture the cartridges for use. The identification feature may inform the coffee maker that an adapter carrying a disposable single serving cartridge is in use, and adjust the coffee maker accordingly.

A beverage forming method and system in which a carafe is positionable at a carafe receiving area of a beverage forming machine with a lid of the carafe in an open position or a closed position. The carafe may be positioned at the carafe receiving area in any one of multiple rotational positions within a range of 45 to 180 degrees, and the machine may detect whether the lid is open or not for any of the rotational positions. Beverage forming is prevented if the lid is detected to be closed, allowing the carafe to be safely stored on the machine regardless of lid position.

The present invention relates to a device configured to allow a hot water nozzle and a dripper to move relatively in three axial directions in a space in order to replicate the movement of a barista extracting a pour over coffee, the device comprising: a horizontal transport part for operating a head case so that the nozzle is transported along the radial direction of the dripper; a rotational operation part for operating so as to support the bottom surface of the dripper and to rotate same; and an elevation operation part for operating so as to vertically transport the rotational operation part.

The present invention relates to a device configured to allow a hot water nozzle and a dripper to move relatively in three axial directions in a space in order to replicate the movement of a barista extracting a pour over coffee, the device comprising: a horizontal transport part for operating a head case so that the nozzle is transported along the radial direction of the dripper; a rotational operation part for operating so as to support the bottom surface of the dripper and to rotate same; and an elevation operation part for operating so as to vertically transport the rotational operation part.

A drip bag includes a bag main body formed of a water permeable filter sheet and hooking members made of a thin plate-like material on two opposite outer surfaces. Each hooking member includes upper bonded, central, and a pair of arm portions from the central to toward the upper bonded portion, and a pair of hooking portions. The arm portions are spaced apart from each other with a bag main body width center line between them. Each hooking portion extends downward and is not bonded onto the bag main body. Each arm portion can be pulled up from the bag main body at an upper part, and has a fixed edge fixed onto the bag main body at a lower part. The fixed edge is inclined relative to a bag main body width direction. A bag main body opening portion opens wider even when a cup opening diameter is small.