Behmor's Brazen Plus serves up complete coffee-making control (pictures)

The Behmore Brazen Plus is big, has distinctive looks and lets home brewers greatly control its coffee-making process.

With a complex control panel boasting lots of buttons, the Brazen Plus takes some study to use.

The Brazen Plus may be big and tall, but it uses a smaller than average thermal carafe.

The Brazen Plus comes with its own permanent gold filter but also accepts paper ones.

The coffee-maker keeps its water supply in a stainless-steel tank.

The Brazen's carafe may be thermal but its brew-through lid lets heat escape too quickly.

Want to use the Brazen Plus to brew in your own vessel? No problem. A manual release tackles that task.