jakubsvec wrote:We were on a tour with PERK all across the US... you can check out the quotes we got from the tour on the Kickstarter page!

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Currently, I'm about four hours drive from Santa Fe so I thought I should try the PERK on my day off. It was completely worth it. The brewer pulled out a sweet Burundi. On the spectrum of brewing methods, I find the phoenix70 (personal opinion) to have more clarity than the Chemex. When I tasted the filter coffee from the Perk, it seemed to have about half the body of a well-brewed Kalita with all of the clarity of a phoenix70. I found this very pleasing personally. What's more, I found out that Jacob (the inventor) plans on having five temperature settings built in for tea. The most interesting part I found is that taking out the water pump is very easy as it pops out after taking out two screws. I had already pledged, but now I'm excited. I'll post some photos of it later today that I took in person.

Nearly just backed it with the super earlybird special. Then I noticed the warranty it comes with is only 1 year. For a machine that's going to retail for $300.

Dealbreaker for sure, even at the $175 earlybird pricepoint.

Oh well.

Here they are.