Apparatus and method for extracting a hot beverage

A method for preparing a hot beverage, in particular a coffee beverage or a tea beverage, with flavor being extracted from a flavor carrier. A method for preparing a hot beverage, in particular a coffee beverage or a tea beverage, with flavours being extracted from a flavour carrier, which is prepared from roasted coffee or dried tea, by means of water or steam, has a plurality of steps: - A predetermined quantity of the flavour carrier, in which the flavours are contained, is added to an extraction chamber which can be closed in a fluid-tight manner in a first step (100). - Water or steam for extracting flavours from the flavour carrier is added to the extraction chamber in a subsequent step (104). - The extracted beverage flows out of the extraction chamber in a subsequent step (106). - Before the step (104) of introducing water or steam into the extraction chamber, a step (102) of introducing pressurized gas into the extraction chamber is executed. In the process, the internal pressure in the extraction chamber rises. A particularly good froth or cream can form on the beverage, in particular on the coffee beverage, on account of the introduction of the pressurized gas.