Japanese Siphon Bar Brews Zen Coffee For $20K

Behold the one and only halogen-powered siphon bar in the United States. The owner of the Blue Bottle Cafe in San Francisco imported the device from Japan’s Ueshima Coffee Company at a cost of over $20 grand (no news on how much Blue Bottle charges per cup). Each globe brews one cup at a time and requires a brewmaster to carefully turn the coffee grounds with a bamboo paddle to create a siphon of water vapor into the pot. The true story here? If you ever feel like hunting coffee nerds for sport, you know where to start looking.

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