Awesome product. I also have a Breville Barista Express and this is way much easier. So simple and awsome tasting espresso. Regular coffee tastes amazing too and it’s ready in like 1 minute. Highly recommend this machine. I was lucky and got an open box deal for like $700.

This is a luxury Item I truly can't live without. My sister got one of these machines first as a gift from her husband in 2013. It's still working.... I was spending a lot of money on iced espresso drinks made at coffee shops so I figured I would give it a try. It was expensive but it paid for itself within 8 months and I have had this machine for 2 years and 9 months. Maintenance is easy and it tells you when to clean it and replace the filters. It makes better espresso than any coffee shop in the area and you can use any whole bean you can find. If this machine breaks, I'm buying another one even if it costs twice as much as I paid for it in 2023 with new tariffs.

Just opened and installed/assembled. There’s an extra black nozzle piece that I can’t figure out where it goes. Start-up instructions are not so great. Doesn’t walk you through all the steps. Disjointed initial setup process. But very detailed for cleaning and daily care. Overall, I just made made coffee and espresso. Such a nice machine that makes great coffee and espresso. I am thrilled. Hope it works like this for years to come. Can’t wait to try the milk frother for a cappuccino!

Pros: * Very easy to use. * Excellent build quality. * Amazing coffee that is ground one cup at-a-time. Cons: * Can’t switch coffee per cup. My Review: I’ve been using a Nespresso single-serve pod-type coffee maker for years. I love the convenience of being able to make a single cup at a time, but that convenience usually comes at a cost of ‘good’ but not ‘great’ coffee. Their ground coffee is sealed in metal pods that helps keep in the freshness, but nothing compares to a cup of freshly-ground coffee. You can recycle their pods, but there is still a lot of waste from the boxes for the pods, the pods themselves, transportation of the pods to recycling, etc.. The Jura e6 is an amazing machine. You just load it up with the beans of your choice and it grinds and brews one or two side-by-side cups at a time. You can dial up the strength and size of your cup and it’s made on-demand. Milk-based drinks are just as easy. There are 3 spouts where you put your cup under; two for coffee and one for frothed milk. To make milk-based drinks, you connect the provided hose to a glass or carton of milk and the Jura does the rest (except for flipping a milk/coffee bypass knob during the process when it says to). The color LCD screen isn’t touch-enabled, but the buttons on the sides are easy enough to use. If you attach the optional BlueTooth dongle (about $60), you can even use their app to connect to the machine for everything. Even the unpacking experience was elevated. From the removal of the machine from the box to the way the manuals are packed was unexpected and appreciated. There is a water hardness tester in the box, too, so you can adjust the machine accordingly and choose to use their “smart” filter to get the best taste from whatever water you have available. I use reverse osmosis water at my home, so I’m going without the provided (and consumable) filter. Everything that I have made with this unit has come out great and tasted significantly better than my pod-based brewer. Cleanup is easy, too. It does an automatic rinsing cycle for both the coffee and milk nozzles. You just pull out a tray to dump the spent coffee grounds and the rinse water and then slide it back in. While I like being able to recycle the metal pods from Nespresso, they do need to be kept in a bag until the bag is full enough to drive to UPS where a truck brings it to a recycling center. With the Jura, there is no need to recycle anything. You can compost the spent coffee grounds and the beans typically come in a single bag that is far less packaging than the equivalent amount of pods. Overall, this machine is much more eco-friendly than even recycling your pods. Now the ONLY downfall of this machine (aside from the buy-in cost)… With the pod-based machines, you can freely mix up the coffee flavor by using a different pod per cup. With the Jura, you load a hopper full of beans and that is the blend of coffee you get for all cups until the beans are all used up- which is quite a few cups. Only then can you put another variety of beans in. Jura also recommends that you don’t use flavored beans as it might gunk up the hopper and grinder. I just use flavored additives or creamers to adjust the taste after the cup is brewed. If your priority is switching up your brew for each cup and you don’t mind that each cup is OK but not great, then you should probably stick with a pod-based machine. If you value a great cup of coffee in the convenience of your home, this Jura machine is for you!

Brews good tasting coffee to your own preference of strength and fast, too. My major complaint to this coffee machine is the capacity of the water filter. The capacity is small. I already changed the coffee filter once, after five weeks of brewing coffee, eight to ten cups everyday. I wish the Jura engineers will design and manufacture large capacity water filter.