Description
The Bodum 11571-109US is a 34 ounce manual pour over brewer built from a single wall borosilicate carafe, a cork band around the middle and a permanent stainless steel mesh filter that sits in the neck. It is listed at 19.99 dollars, weighs 1.21 pounds, is made in Portugal and first appeared on this listing in October 2020. There is no electricity involved and no consumable beyond the coffee itself.
That last point is the whole argument for this brewer. A paperless pour over changes the cup in a specific and predictable way: metal mesh lets coffee oils and the finest particles through, where paper traps both. The result has more body, more aroma carried in those oils, and a slightly cloudy finish with a little sediment at the bottom of the cup. If you have only ever drunk paper filtered coffee, this tastes noticeably heavier. Whether that reads as richer or as muddier is genuinely a matter of taste, and the other pour over brewers reviewed here split fairly evenly between the two approaches.
Capacity and What 34 Ounces Buys
Bodum rates the carafe at 34 ounces and describes it as making eight cups of four ounces each. Those two numbers do not multiply to the same answer: eight four ounce cups is 32 ounces, not 34. The two ounce gap is headroom above the brew line rather than an error, but it is worth knowing that the usable brew volume is the smaller figure. In mugs rather than manufacturer cups, 32 ounces is two large ones or three modest ones.
This is also a different cup convention from the one used across the drip category, where a cup is five ounces. Bodum uses four. That means a Bodum eight cup and a drip machine eight cup are not the same volume at all, and comparing capacity numbers across formats without checking the definition is how people end up with a brewer half the size they expected.
The Permanent Filter and a Contradiction in the Specification
The mesh filter is stainless steel, sits in the mouth of the carafe and holds the grounds while you pour. Bodum calls it new and improved on this generation without saying what changed. Its job is to hold back grounds while letting oils through, and the fineness of the weave determines how much sediment ends up in the cup. The listing does not give a mesh count, which is the number that would actually tell you.
The specification block then contradicts the entire design. It lists a coffee filter size of number 4, which is a cone paper filter format. This brewer takes no paper filter at all. Special feature reads Permanent Filter and filter type reads Reusable, both correct, so the number 4 entry is a leftover field from a paper filter dripper and should be ignored. If you want a paper filtered cup from a similar shape, the OXO Brew single serve dripper is the paper based equivalent in this catalogue.
Grind, Pour Technique and Extraction
Bodum’s own instruction is specific and worth following: add coarse ground coffee to the filter, pour a small amount of water in a circular motion until the bed is soaked, then add the remaining water and let it drip. That first small pour is a bloom, and pausing after it lets carbon dioxide escape from fresh coffee so the main pour meets a settled bed rather than a foaming one.
Coarse is the important word. A metal mesh has larger openings than paper, so a fine grind will pass straight through and land in the cup as silt. Coarse also slows extraction, which matters because a single wall glass carafe loses heat quickly. The practical consequence is that this brewer rewards a burr grinder and punishes a blade one, since blade grinders produce a wide spread of particle sizes and the fine end of that spread is exactly what metal mesh cannot hold back. Anyone brewing paperless should read the burr grinder coverage before blaming the brewer.
Glass, Cork and Heat
The carafe is borosilicate, which matters here for a practical reason rather than a marketing one. Borosilicate has a low coefficient of thermal expansion, so it tolerates the jump from near boiling water to a cold rinse better than ordinary glass. On a vessel you pour boiling water into by hand, that is the correct material choice.
Bodum explicitly describes the glass as single wall. That is the honest limitation of this brewer. There is no insulation, so the coffee starts cooling the moment it lands and 32 ounces will be lukewarm well before most households finish it. The cork band exists to give you somewhere to hold the carafe, not to keep the coffee warm. Colour and exterior finish are both listed as cork, which describes the band rather than the vessel. If retention matters more than body, a double walled or vacuum insulated brewer is the format to look at instead, and the insulated French presses covered here solve exactly that problem.
Cleaning and Daily Handling
Bodum states the brewer is dishwasher safe. That is more useful on a paperless design than it sounds, because a metal mesh accumulates coffee oils in the weave and those oils go rancid. A mesh that has not been degreased in a month will make every subsequent brew taste stale regardless of how fresh the beans are. Rinsing is not enough. Periodic detergent or a soak is the maintenance this brewer actually needs.
Dimensions are given as 5.63 inches deep by 8 inches wide by 6.5 inches high. The 8 inch width almost certainly includes the pouring lip, since a 34 ounce carafe with a 5.63 inch base is not 8 inches across at the body. At 1.21 pounds empty it is light enough to lift one handed, which matters because the cork band is the only grip and a full carafe of near boiling coffee is another two pounds on top.
What the Specifications Do Not Settle
The listing never states the mesh fineness, which is the single specification that determines how much sediment reaches the cup on a paperless brewer. It does not state the glass thickness or the temperature rating. It does not say whether the cork band is removable for cleaning, and cork absorbs coffee if it is not.
Nothing describes the lid, if there is one, or whether the filter assembly holds a fixed volume of grounds. There is no stated brew time and no recommended dose, so the coffee to water ratio is left entirely to you. Country of origin is Portugal, which is unusual and genuinely useful information at this price, but there is no warranty statement anywhere on the page. There is also no confirmation that replacement mesh filters are sold separately, which is a real question on a brewer whose only consumable part is the one that determines the cup.
Who It Suits and Who Should Look at Another Format
This suits someone brewing for two or three people who wants a heavier bodied, oil rich cup and does not want to buy filters forever. At around twenty dollars it is one of the cheapest ways into manual brewing, and borosilicate plus Portuguese manufacture is a better material story than the price suggests. It also suits anyone who dislikes the flatness that paper filtration can impose on a lightly roasted coffee.
It suits you poorly if you want a clean, sediment free cup, in which case a paper based brewer such as the Chemex Classic Series is the opposite design and does the opposite job well. It suits you poorly if you grind with a blade grinder, because the silt will be constant. And it suits you poorly if you drink slowly, since single wall glass offers no heat retention at all.
