The brewing device for creating a coffee beverage has a brewing unit having a brewing chamber, a crema unit having a crema chamber connected to the brewing chamber by means of a coffee passage and having a valve piston for opening and/or closing the coffee passage, which valve piston can be moved in the crema chamber relative to the coffee passage, and an outlet opening. The valve piston can be moved into a plurality of different specified movement positions relative to the coffee passage, wherein different consecutive brewing processes for creating different coffee beverages can be realized, and wherein the crema unit is designed in such a way that coffee brewed during a particular brewing process can be swirled through at different intensity than a different brewing process depending on the particular specified movement position of the valve piston.
