K-Brew+Chill

Update: It is now July and the cooling system no longer works. It is sending out piping hot lava water instead. The good news is I have contacted Keurig and the warranty process so far has been very easy to go through to get a new one. Hoping the new one does better in the long run. I got this for Christmas and am loving it so far. We read the reviews about it not cooling, but we have left it plugged in and once it got cooled off it has stayed cooled off. It does take a little time to re-cool for another cup, but not too long after the initial set up. I have also read the reviews about the noise and it is no worse than the refrigerator sound. It is a really good investment for those that don't want to spend big money at the coffee shop everyday. It also has a high capacity of water that it can hold especially in comparison to my old Keurig which is super nice. You don't have to fill the tank up nearly as often with the new tank. Beyond all that, the coffee tastes amazing which is the whole reason for a coffee machine, right? Overall, highly recommend!

FINAL UPDATE--Over the past couple years my family and I have gone through FOUR of these. They have all been well-maintained and treated with care, and they have all broken seemingly out of nowhere for zero visible reason. I was willing to be kind because it's a novel product and when it works it's incredible, but obviously four separate coffee machines breaking within a span of a couple years is ridiculous. Last Keurig I will ever buy, but I kept them in business for a few months with my purchases. TLDR: it was an incredible 5 star product until it broke after 4 months of regular use. I'll keep it short and sweet. This is my favorite coffee maker I own, and I own a Breville Barista Touch and a Nespresso in addition to the Keurig Brew+Chill. My first couple iced coffees were very disappointing, to the point I almost initiated a return with Amazon. But once I got the right amount of oat milk (or creamer) and sweetener dialed in I swear this is some of the best iced coffee I've ever had. Better than Dunkin and Starbucks for sure. Obviously the taste depends on the K-cup you use, and the convenience-factor adds some brownie points, but I don't think I'll ever go out and get drive-thru coffee again. The way the machine works is a little unique. Basically for iced coffee it has to "charge" over time. The first time you use the machine it will take 6 hours to charge fully, and once it's charged it can make about 4 iced coffees in a row and still make them very cold (I'm talking sub-60 degrees which for coffee is insane). After that you can still brew iced coffee, it just won't come out very cold. For hot coffee, it works like any other Keurig. But if you only brew one or two iced coffees in like a one hour time period, it charges very fast. The only downside I can mention is the fan noise--in order to work, the cooling apparatus has a fan that runs almost all the time as the machine charges. My house is open-concept, and I can hear the fan in my living room very clearly from the kitchen, which is about 30-feet away. I got used to it pretty quickly, and it's MUCH quieter than my GE Opal Ice Maker. But it's worth mentioning in this review. Overall I ADORE this coffee maker. It feels revolutionary. I got it on sale for $170, which for what you're getting, seems insanely affordable. I plan on buying another one for my house in another state so I don't have to haul it with me every season. UPDATE 4 MONTHS LATER: It broke out of nowhere. Just straight-up stopped working. At first the Descale light lit up, so I ordered the Descale formula and followed all the steps. I thought the problem was a clogged needle after descaling didn't fix it, but cleaning the needles didn't help. It sounds like something is wrong with the pump that pulls in water from the tank. I can't get hot or cold coffee to brew at all. Instead of contacting customer service I just ordered another one because the four months that the machine *did* work were lovely. All that to say: your mileage may very. I dropped the review score from 5 stars to 3, because $200 every 4 months is a high price to pay for iced coffee at home, no matter how delicious and convenient it is.

THIS does exactly what I wanted... iced /cold coffee WITHOUT needing ice . I don't have where to keep lots of ice cubes and not particularly fond of my cold coffee getting diluted.. iced coffee makes require hot bre over ice cubes which means you HAVE to always have ice ready and it's going to dilute the brew and I want a full 12 oz not 10 ounces to make it strong enough to handle the dilution of ice cubes.. this is NOT freeing cold.. it's cold.. you can brew a full size 12 ounces and by using stainless. steel mug it stays cold.. if you want it COLDER you can hit the STRONG brew button first , then do your 12 ounces and add a ice cube or three and bingo full size, the added strength gives enough to completely change the taste but allows for any dilution.. after sugar and 1/2+1/2 I have a 16 ounce COLD coffee.... now if you are using a regular plastic cup or something like that it's probably not going to end up being cold enough for you or to stay cold enough for you which is what the stainless steel does but for me this sells the problem of not having to keep ice on hand and also being able to have a cold enough to drink right away and because I put it in stainless steel it's still cold 4 hours later I did still makes a wonderful hot cup of coffee just like my other keurigs have done before. also the setup is pretty easy I thought this is going to be something that in order to keep it cold you were going to have to do a special procedure every single time and it's not once you fill up that tank in the beginning and you wait to 7 hours or so that it takes until it chill comes to full chill it periodically has a fan that will go on and off keeping it that way and the fan is not annoying to me at all if it is there's a little button you can press to make it quieter It just means that it takes longer to come to a full charge I have used it without a full charge and still get a perfectly cold cup of coffee and you only will have to adjust the chill part once a year which I think is pretty darn easy

I had Keurig Classic and Keurig 2.0 (hot and iced). They both still work. I gave the first one to my Mom and I use the other in my office at work now I wanted something different and considered Ninja, Instant Pot, and Keurig brands. In the end, I picked Keurig Brew+Chill - better reviews, based on my personal experience with the brand, and some new features. The size is a little bulkier than what I would have liked but it will do. I love the multi-stream technology - it pokes 5 holes on the coffee pods, strong brew, brews hot & cold, 70 oz water reservoir. I just received and set this up yesterday. I filled the chill tank with filtered cold water from the fridge. It made some sounds that sounded like your kitchen fan blowing on low setting. I pressed the “quiet” mode so then it changed to just a low humming noise. The sound didn’t bother me at all. While it was cooling the chill tank, I felt some warm air coming from the side vent, right behind the water reservoir. It almost felt like your desktop tower blowing some air. 24 hours later, no more noise and warm air blowing. I think it will come on based on your usage of the “cold” brew. Because of the chill feature, this needs to be plugged in at all times to maintain the water cold. So far, I brewed 2 Keurig Iced CoffeeHouse drinks Pineapple Passionfruit and Strawberry Açaí. I also did 4 hot brews of Starbucks, Kirkland and Keurig coffees. For all the ones I made, they are all good as expected with no issues. I will try to cold brew the traditional Keurig next. My coffee mug in the picture is a 16oz and fits. Some of my 24 oz travel mugs fit if I remove the bottom tray. Anything over 8” tall will not fit. This model would only brew 6 to 12 oz at a time. I would have liked a espresso brew to maybe 4 oz? Back to the cold brews - the machine will do an auto rinse maybe 30 seconds immediate after the brew is completed. I put a cup underneath and for 2 cold drinks, only 1 drop each came out from the nozzle. The bottom tray however was almost full. So, it looks like when it rinse, the water goes through a tube from the inside to the bottom tray. Also, I still have to add ice to my cold drinks. Maybe it’s just a matter of preference? There’s no hot water button on this one but if you just want hot water, say for your oatmeal, just brew hot like normal but without any coffee pods in it. It’s actually good to run plain hot water on your machine from time to time as it helps clean it in between. I did that on my previous machines. I also recommend filtered water only. Don’t use tap water or distilled water. I wish it came with a built in frother. I bought a separate Keurig frother and I will download the Keurig Barista app next so I can try some flavored coffee, latte and cappuccino. I’m excited. The traditional Keurig filter cup won’t fit on this one due to the multi stream feature but I read that one will come out in Feb 2025. I will also try that to make my own using regular ground coffee. Even though I had no issues with my other Keurig coffee machines, I purchased the 3 year protection plan, just in case. Make sure to register yours for warranty and support purposes. 🙂

Ok. Maybe I didn't understand what I was getting into. This machine is all about the 'Iced Coffee'. It has a chiller that runs 24/7, even in the winter... It has no clock; no self starter. It is going to chew up electricity - all the time. Other than that, we love the water reservoir and the 'no fuss' controls. It makes coffee when I ask it to. UPDATE: 9 months later and unit will not draw water from the reservoir. I will never buy a Keurig again.... I just wish I could turn it off...

We bought this Keurig K-Brew+Chill Iced or Hot Single-Serve K-Cup Coffee Maker just over a year ago but did not set it up for several months. Less than a year into its use, the reservoir is no longer pulling water. After doing the standard troubleshooting I called customer service which operates off of a two-tiered strategy to resolve issues: 1- Have you go through the same trouble shooting you already went through and then suggest completely useless fixes i.e. go out to the store and try a different brand of pods (as if that will get the water flowing again). 2 - Offer "discounts" on other Keurig merchandise that would only be useful if...wait for it... you had a functioning Keurig. For $200 this is enough of an investment that "wipe it clean" and "run some water through it" should not be the sum total of troubleshooting acumen offered by customer service. They then offered me a "repeat customer discount"... for exactly the same price I can but it on Amazon for. Boy, do I feel loved. They also offered me a 50% discount on a Keurig subscription. Whoop-de-doo! The solution to my machine not working is apparently, buy another one a year later and then spend more on coffee with the company that can't make a lasting, quality product. After asking for a supervisor, I was put on hold for an hour while this illusory manager was inexplicably on another escalation for the entire hour...so clearly someone was getting in depth support. Any machine that can switch between hot and cold brew likely isn't going to last forever. My guess is there are a lot of variable parts. But we kept up with the suggested maintenance and did not use is for more than just a few coffees a day. This should absolutely be a still functioning piece of machinery and customer service should have more solutions than what I can figure out with a google search and some common sense.

As far as I know this is the only machine that makes ice cold coffee on the spot without it being commercial. It took all night for it to get a solid and blinking bar on the chill indicator, which means it wasn't completely charged, but was enough to make 2 8oz glasses of iced coffee. No waiting time and no ice cubes needed! The iced coffee was delicious when set with the strong function. There is little noise, but I have it next to both my AC and air purifier which drown out any noise it makes. I have to put my ear next to it to hear it going on the highest chill setting. It self cleans after use when using the chill function. It drains a little into the catch pad underneath but it fills it just a little and very easy to pull out and drain. The fill tank is very easy to fill too compared to my previous Keurig. Overall I'm very happy with this machine. Now the real test is to see how long it lasts. I have a reverse osmosis system so I don't need to worry about descaling but I did see in some reviews that these Keurigs that use the fast heating elements can trip a thermostat on the element and it has to be taken apart in order to reset it. This will happen if there isn't any water in the resevoir when it's pulling or after 120 brews, whichever happens first. I hope this isn't the case to reset, but it is covered by my protection plan so I'm not too worried.

We are in Love with this Coffee maker. Hot & Cold. If it stops working we would get another one just like it. We purchased this several months ago. Enjoying it Every single morning. When we go on trips we miss it. Beach house has a cheap cheap one. No comparison to this one.