Abstract: An automatic hot-beverage maker for brewing coffee, tea or similar brewed beverages is provided with a base stand. A cylindrical column having a bottom is attached to the base stand. A thin-walled casing shield is provided over a height of the cylindrical column for protection. A first clamping ring is mounted in a bottom area of the cylindrical column for support of a pitcher to receive brewed beverage. An arm is mounted to a top of the cylindrical column forming a second clamping ring for support of a charge container. A reservoir container placed in an upper part of the cylindrical column has at its bottom an adjoining pan for water. Mounted within the pan is an exchangeable filter has a casing jacket forming an upper elastic lip on an inner side surface of the pan and a cover of the casing jacket is furnished in an encircling seat. A driver dog extends perpendicular from a top of the encircling seat in an upward direction into the reservoir container.