Beverage expertise
From the leaf.
To the machine.
To the cup.
Automat designs and builds tea and coffee machines. Behind every cup is a second craft: choosing the tea, specifying the spice, balancing the blend and calibrating the machine to repeat it.
Source — Select — Blend — Develop — Calibrate — Brew — Serve
01 — Origin
Assam tea.
Tea garden in Assam. Editorial image (Unsplash). Illustrative of Assam tea country, not a photograph of a supplier garden.
The development brief starts with Assam tea.
Assam tea is robust and full-bodied enough to keep its character through milk and spice, which is why it anchors a milk-based masala cup.
Assam tea garden in mist. Editorial image (Unsplash).
Sourcing
Leaf is chosen by season as well as origin.
Second-flush Assam is selected for its fuller, often malty cup, a profile that stays present after milk and spice go in. A defined origin keeps the base consistent from one batch of tea to the next.
02 — Selection
Selected by grade.
Leaf grade decides how fast and how strongly a tea extracts.
BOP
Larger broken leaf
Tea character, structure and body
BP
Smaller broken leaf
Strength, body and colour
Dust
Fine particles
Rapid colour and intensity, used only where faster extraction serves the cup
Dried black tea leaf. Editorial image (Unsplash).
Processed leaf
Grade is set in processing.
CTC processing crushes, tears and curls the leaf into granules. Broken-leaf grades are then combined in the blend for strength, body and colour.
Processed CTC tea granules in a drying drum. Photo: shankar s. from Dubai, United Arab Emirates / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0). Editorial image.
03 — Spice
Tea + spice → flavour.
Spice is specified, not added to taste.
Cardamom
Cardamom. Editorial image (Unsplash).
Dry ginger
Dry ginger. Editorial image (Unsplash).
Black pepper
Black pepper. Editorial image (Unsplash).
Specified by composition · granule size · inclusion
Spices shown are those specified across the programme. Each blend declares its own ingredients on pack — Masala Chai is the spiced blend; Ginger Chai and Cardamom Chai are single-spice.
Tea leaf on sorting and drying trays. Editorial image (Unsplash) — illustrative of tea processing, not a photograph of our blending line.
04 — Blending
Blended with purpose.
The target cup sets the blend, and later the machine recipe.
Components are balanced so extraction stays controlled and the tea stays recognisable beneath milk and spice. The same target cup is carried forward into the machine recipe.
The target cup
Character · Body · Liquor · Spice balance · Finish
Formulation
Tea base
Cardamom
Dry ginger
Black pepper
→
Balanced toward the target cup
05 — Specialty tea development
From blend to pack.
Our tea blend range includes Masala Chai, Ginger Tea, Cardamom Tea and Plain Assam.
Masala Chai
Ginger Chai
Cardamom Chai
Blend names, formats and availability are confirmed with each programme.
06 — Recipe development and calibration
Blend
+
recipe
+
machine.
Brewtec drink menu as shown on the machine. Demonstration footage.
The recipe is where the blend meets the machine.
Tea and sugar
BrewNex holds three tea blends and sugar in four canisters and doses them into the pot.
Heat and time
BrewNex boils under sensor control; Brewtec boils tea in its own tea brewer.
Milk
Brewtec works with fresh milk held hot in a boiler beside the machine.
Batch
BrewNex brews from one cup to fifty in a single batch.
Calibration
Recipes are set on the machine, and recipe calibration is part of Automat IoT Cloud.
We don’t stop at developing the tea blend.
We engineer the brewing process around the intended cup.
The blend and the machine are developed together. That is where BrewNex and BrewTec come in.
07 — Engineered brewing
Then the machine takes over.
Demonstration footage of BrewNex and Brewtec. The machines, their screens and their process are shown as they are.
01 Ingredients in
BrewNex
02 Boil
BrewNex
03 Tea brewer
Brewtec
04 Fresh milk
Brewtec
05 Pour
BrewNex
08 — The finished cup
Source. Select. Blend. Develop. Calibrate. Brew. Serve.
A finished cup of chai on the Brewtec drip tray. Demonstration footage.
Once calibrated, the recipe travels with the machine to the site.
The same cup is served wherever the machine goes. BrewNex is documented for offices, cafés, factories and institutions, and IoT Cloud keeps consumption and ingredient levels visible after installation.
Office Pantry
Commercial tea and coffee systems
Café & Cafeteria
Higher-throughput tea and coffee systems
Factories
High-throughput beverage systems
Institutions
Institutional beverage systems
Tea expertise. Engineered for repeatability.