Shopping for a Keurig coffee maker this year? We’ve looked through all the Black Friday ads and broken down where you can get the cheapest Keurig Mini coffee maker, the cheapest Keurig K50 (medium capacity) and the cheapest Keurig K-Duo (high capacity) as well as the best advertised deal on K-Cups.

Best Deal on a Keurig Mini: $49.99

If you are looking for a Keurig to place in limited space on a countertop or on a desk, the Keurig Mini is a great option. Target is knocking $40 off the retail price this Black Friday, which matches Ben’s previous price low on this coffee maker.

The Keurig Mini brews in 6 to 12 ounce sizes, has a one cup reservoir, is compatible with travel mugs and includes cord storage in case you are traveling with it.

• Target: Keurig Mini coffee maker (3 colors)

Best Deal on a Keurig K50: $59.99

Matching our last price low on Ben’s, the Keurig K50 will be 50 percent off at Best Buy this year. This model frequently pops up in Black Friday ads as it’s a well-sized model for a traditional kitchen environment and works for medium capacity needs.

The Keurig K50 has a large 48 ounce water reservoir, brews in 6 to 10 ounce sizes, accommodates travel mugs, and has a programmable auto-off feature. This model is often called the K-Classic in advertisements as well.

• Best Buy: Keurig K50 (3 colors)

Best Deal on a Keurig K-Duo: $79.99

Walmart has a different model of the K-Duo, called the K-Duo Essential. Most retailers retailer are carrying the more expensive model at $169.99 MSRP. In edition, Walmart has knocked another $20 off the price point. The design of the two are slightly different.

The Keurig K-Duo is ideal for someone that wants a traditional coffee maker in addition to K-Cups. It offers a 60 ounce reservoir (shared by cup & carafe), 8 to 12 ounce brews on the K-Cup side / 12 cup brew on carafe side, and travel mug flexibility.

• Walmart: Keurig K-Duo Essentiala

Best Deal on K-Cups: $7 for 18 ct.

Target has one of the best bargains on K-Cups, driving the price down to roughly 39 cents per K-Cup for the Original Donut Shop brand of coffee. In second place, Sam’s Club has a 54-pack in their ad for $22, about 41 cents per K-cup.

In third place, Kohl’s has a 48-pack of Dunkin Donuts coffee around 45 cents per K-Cup. And if you are looking for seasonal Christmas flavors, Staples has a sale that drops the price down to about 55 cents per K-Cup. As always, watch Amazon and Best Buy for aggressive K-Cup sales over Black Friday week.

• Target: Original Donut Shop K-Cups

Here’s the cheapest Keurig and K-Cups on Black Friday 2019

Combing a dose of daily vitamins with your cup of coffee, VitaCup K-Cups are coffee pods with vitamins such as B1, B5, B6, B9, B12, and D3 mixed in as well as antioxidants.

According to the manufacturer, these vitamins help with “adrenal health and weight loss” as well as “boost mood, and reduce inflammation.”

Conceptually, having extra vitamins in your coffee will give you more energy later in the day, after the caffeine in the coffee wears off.

Flavors produced by VitaCup include French Roast (dark roast), French Vanilla, Gourmet House Blend (medium roast), Gourmet Breakfast Blend (mild roast) and Decaf. The company also produces a Green Tea blend for those that dislike coffee.

The coffee beans are sourced from fair-trade certified growers in South America and the K-Cup coffee pods are BPA free as well as recyclable. K-Cups are compatible in Keurig coffee makers, many of which hit price lows during Amazon Prime Day next month and Black Friday.

At the moment, you can take advantage of an exclusive deal VitaCup K-cups. Use code BEN20 to get 20 percent off sitewide. For instance, the 20% off code brings a 64-pack down to about $1 per cup.

You can watch a video about VitaCup below, a detailed list of the vitamins and check out all the blends here:

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Shut Up and Take My Money: VitaCup Vitamin-Infused K-Cups

If your favorite brand of beer is simply one that is cold or one that someone else hands to you, you probably don’t make up the target audience for the increasing number of home brewing machines appearing. But if you’re someone who has tried nearly every microbrew out there and now are ready for the challenge of creating beer at home, you’re in luck! Several new, easy to use home beer brewing machines are well worth considering.

PicoBrew

The PicoBrew home brewing machine was officially unveiled at CES 2017, after a successful Kickstarter campaign. It can make up to 5 liters of beer with dozens of beer brand recipes available from various brewers. You’ll purchase PicoPaks ($20-$30 each) that contain ingredients to match recipes for specific brands of beer from brewers. It takes a few hours to brew the beer with the PicoPak, and you’ll have to ferment the grains for 5-plus days before it’s ready to drink. The 5 liters is equal to about 12-14 bottles of beer, so this isn’t a cheap option versus purchasing beer from the store.

For those who want a little more control over the brewing process, PicoBrew is working on a system that allows you to order customized PicoPaks to change the taste of the beer by adjusting the grains included. You can pick the ingredients and the amount of each grain. Eventually, you’ll even be able to promote your own recipes through the PicoBrew Developers Program, earning a commission if others purchase your recipe, which is a really cool idea.

One of PicoBrew’s best features is the ability to clean the unit thoroughly after each use with a minimum amount of time and effort involved. This is an impressive invention that’s extremely easy to use.

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Brewie

The Brewie is a large appliance that can brew about 5 gallons of beer at one time. Brewie offers brewing with ingredients the company provides or with your own ingredients.

When working from your own ingredients, you can adjust the amounts you use for each batch, so it provides a bit more freedom than the PicoBrew. The company will give you recipes to try out with your own ingredients. After you’ve picked the recipe you want and added the ingredients, the rest of the process is automated. The front of the device includes a touch screen display to receive updates on the process and to issue commands.

Or you can purchase a pre-made “Brewie Pad,” which contains all of the ingredients needed for a particular recipe. The Brewie Pad even includes an RFID card that contains the instructions for the brewing process for your recipe. You just have to scan the card on the unit’s RFID reader, and the machine takes care of the rest.

You can order the Brewie, but only through the company’s web site at the time of this writing. And be prepared to spend some money, as the Brewie will cost you a couple of thousand dollars.

MiniBrew

The MiniBrew comes from a European company that developed its product through an Indiegogo campaign and presented its product at CES 2017. The MiniBrew is sold through Indiegogo too for several hundred dollars, although you may have to wait a few months to receive one.

MiniBrew greatly simplifies the process of brewing beer at home, as you just add the ingredients and the machine does the rest. The unit even has a smartphone app included with it to count down the time until the MiniBrew is finished with your beer and it’s ready to drink. It can make up to 5 liters of beer at a time.

As with PicoBrew, the company has partnered with numerous brewers, allowing you to recreate their recipes at home.

Brewbot

Brewbot is from a Northern Ireland company, offering a huge cabinet allowing the brewing of up to 30 liters of beer at a time (roughly 84 bottles of beer). The Brewbot is fully automated, using a smartphone app to keep the brewer updated on its process.

It’s aimed more at restaurants or bars than home users because of its size and cost of several thousand dollars. Still, if you have the money, Brewbot is the biggest option out there for the home brewer who wants to keep things simple but still wants a huge volume.

iGulu

iGulu, formerly called Artbrew, is another automated home brewing system that’s working on raising funds through an Indiegogo campaign. And iGulu’s Indiegogo page is the only place to order the device at this point.

Once you have your ingredients, you’ll be following the instructions on the LCD screen on the device to create the type of beer you want to brew. The LCD screen and the accompanying smartphone app will keep you updated on the brewing process, which can take a week to three weeks for the entire brewing and fermentation process. The iGulu’s price for its Indiegogo supporters is several hundred dollars.

SodaStream Beer Bar

Now, even though the beer brewing machines listed above are easy to use, they aren’t quite the Crock Pots of beer brewing. All of the automated beer brewing machines listed here will require at least five days to brew and ferment the beer, so you can’t expect to set the machine up at breakfast time and have a cold, homemade brew in your hand by the time you get home from work. But there’s one other even easier option that speeds up the process of making beer at home.

SodaStream, the company that allows you to create soda at home, has created a similarly designed beer making machine called the Beer Bar. (I can’t quite bring myself to call it a home brewing machine.) According to SodaStream, you’ll mix water with a “beer concentrate” to create SodaStream’s Blondie brand of beer. It’s only available in certain European countries at the time of this writing, but the company plans to expand it to other locations in the future. At least initially, the concentrate is inexpensive, as you can make six to eight bottles of beer from it for only a few dollars.

AB/Keurig Collaboration

At this point, it’s nothing more than an announcement, but Anheuser-Busch (AB InBev) and Keurig Green Mountain will be collaborating on an interesting in-home alcohol brewing machine. Consumers will have the ability to create beer, hard liquor, cocktails, and mixers with the machine at home.

Keurig’s expertise is in coffee brewing with pods at home, but the joint venture will make use of the Keurig Kold machine technology, which appeared in an at-home soda making machine a couple of years ago that the company has since discontinued. Anheuser-Busch will be contributing its beer and alcohol brewing know-how to the joint venture.

Anheuser-Busch offered a draft beer storage appliance called Draftmark several years ago, but it’s no longer available. It stored about 1 gallon of popular beer brands with refills available. So the company has some experience with providing beer-at-home options.

The Grain Father

Love the name on this beer brewing system. This isn’t quite the same as the other simple home brew machines on our list, as you have to remove the grain manually before beginning the boiling process. But it’s also larger than the most of the automated home brewing options listed above, offering the ability to create 5 gallons (almost 19 liters) at one time. So if you want a bit more of a challenge right out of the box with your home brewing … this is an offer that you (probably) can’t refuse.

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What’s New in Home Brew? 7 Automated Beer Making Machines

Have you heard of the Keurig Kold? It’s a new device from Keurig that produces cold drinks instead of hot. Just like the coffee machines, you pop in your pod (soda, iced tea, flavor water and sports drinks), fill up the tank with water and turn it on. It makes popular name brand sodas, like Coke and Sprite, as well as craft sodas, like root beer and cream soda.

Sounds like a neat machine, right? Don’t get too excited, Keurig is charging consumers $370 for the Keurig Kold ($350 on sale) and pricing a 4-pack of pods at $5. Each pod makes 8 fl ounces. That’s less than a can of soda, which is 12 fl ounces. You can buy this 12-pack of Coca-Cola on Amazon for $5 (not even a great price compared to grocery stores) and still get 4.5 times the volume of Coke that would be produced from the 4-pack of Coke pods!

Of course, if you are really into the idea of making your own drinks, we don’t want you to waste your money on the Keurig Kold. Here’s a selection of reasonably priced alternatives to help you save hundreds:

SodaStream Fountain Jet (MSRP: $79)

Arguably, SodaStream kicked off the maker-your-own-soda market in a big way. They can’t even get an ad slot in the Super Bowl ad lineup because the NFL is frightened of Coke and Pepsi pulling their ad dollars. There are mulitple SodaStream models that you can choose from, but the standout from a price-point perspective is the Jet.

The Jet was chosen as Sweethome’s Best Soda Maker and makes over 60 different types of soda. While you aren’t going to find name brands in the mix, each bottle of soda mix makes up to 33 cans. The downside is that you will have to purchase replacement 60-liter carbonators over time (usually $30) in order to continue carbonating the soda. The Jet does come with a mail-in rebate for a free 60-liter carbonator, assuming you swap out the starter 4-liter carbonator.

Be aware that there are plenty of other models in the SodaStream line, ranging up to $200. Other variations will include length of warranty as well as build quality. However, you can’t really go wrong with the Jet, which frequently goes on sale in the $45 to $50 during most of the year and in the $30 to $40 range during November / December.

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Takeya Flash Chill Iced Tea Maker (MSRP: $30)

Giving you the option of using either loose leaf tea or tea bags, the Takeya “Flash Chill” iced tea maker is a simpler, less expensive alternative to standalone tea makers. Snagging 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon, you basically pour in the loose tea or bags, add hot water to about halfway and allow it to brew. Then you just add ice, tighten up the seal at the top, give it a shake and it’s ready to go.

Interestingly, you can also use this this pitcher to cold brew coffee using the same tea infuser. Takeya also sells a fruit infuser for this model (roughly $10) that you can use to add additional flavors to a pitcher of tea or water. On average, you will see sales on the Takeya pitcher in the $18 to $25 range.

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Asobu Samba Shaker (MSRP: $18)

Ideal for mixing up sports drinks for hydration or protein shakes for working out, the Asobu Samba Shaker includes two shaker balls on the inside of the bottle that help blend powdered mixtures. Also attaining 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon, the shaker will also help blend ingredients like peanut butter or yogurt into the mix.

Available in five different colors, the 100% BPA free Samba Shaker bottle also withstands subfreezing to boiling temperatures and offers a 20 ounce capacity for your drinks. Be aware that the large bottom of the bottle isn’t likely going to fit in a car’s cupholder, but should be fine in cupholders on exercise equipment. When it goes on sale, look for a $12 to $16 price point to get the best deal.

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Toddy Cold Brew Coffee Maker (MSRP: $39.50)

Interestingly, the Keurig Kold doesn’t actually cold brew coffee, a method of brewing that’s often preferred by serious coffee drinkers. If you want a simpler process to cold brew coffee, check out the Toddy Cold Brew Coffee Maker. Designed to brew your coffee with 66% less acid than hot brewing, the 4.5 out of 5 star rating on Amazon will give you an idea why this is so popular with coffee drinkers.

Of course, you will have to purchase additional filters over time, sold in a pack of four at a price of $10. Besides coffee, you can also brew hot or cold tea with the Toddy machine. While the Toddy doesn’t go on sale often, you may be able to see a sale price point between $30 to $35 from time to time.

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