Hot Beverage Maker and Beverage Vessel with Beverage Level Indicator

A beverage maker is provided comprising a housing, a brew head disposed in the housing, a beverage vessel configured to be removably inserted into a recess in the housing and having an interior volume where beverage brewed by the brew head is directed, a removable lid that fits into an opening of the beverage vessel leading to the interior volume, and indicia in the cover configured to display a level of beverage inside the interior volume of the beverage vessel. A hole is provided in the lid where beverage brewed by the brew head flows through before the beverage is directed to the interior volume of the beverage vessel. The indicia includes a plurality of adjacently staggered light tubes of varying length extending downwardly from the lid into the interior volume of the beverage vessel and configured to sense and graphically display the level of be erase within the interior volume.