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Permalink Reply by Jeremy Perrine on January 6, 2010 at 2:31pm

Supposedly, some Japenese coffee company bought Hario's entire stock to open multiple siphon bars around the country. Heard it from a tweet by coffeegeek.

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Permalink Reply by John P on January 6, 2010 at 3:26pm

Jeremiah,

Not true. The company, UCC, makes their own in- counter burners, what they did buy was a butt-load of brewers (about 12,000) for several planned stores. Which is honestly a drop in the bucket in terms of Hario's siphon brewer sales.

As the only authorized US importer of the Hario burners, I can say it is a quality/safety issue. Hario, is not (if you didn't know) the base manufacturer, and there is a problem with one of the components supplied by a third party. Until this is resolved to everyone's satisfaction, there will not be a full production run.

We're doing what we can, but they all have twenty to fifty other items they manufacture themselvess, and their own time schedule.

All I can say is be patient. :)

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