20K Koffee

At Last, a $20,000 Cup of Coffee

Oh yeah?  Well in  my day we brewed cow chips and horse piss and we liked it that way!

But is it as good as cat shit? “ WITH its brass-trimmed halogen heating elements, glass globes and bamboo paddles, the new contraption that is to begin making coffee this week at the Blue Bottle Café here looks like a machine from a Jules Verne novel, a 19th-century vision of the future. Called a siphon bar, it was imported from Japan at a total cost of more than $20,000. The cafe has the only halogen-powered model in the United States, and getting it here required years of elliptical discussions with its importer, Jay Egami of the Ueshima Coffee Company. ” Continued ...