Inventors around the world may sip coffee while waiting for inspiration to strike, but engineer and entrepreneur Jeremy Kuempel says he is inventing technology to make inspired coffee. With a $5,000 price tag, his newfangled coffeemaker had better outbrew the best baristas in the business. “Other people developing equipment aren’t looking at the chemistry and engineering of coffee brewing,” notes Kuempel, who founded Blossom Coffee, a precision coffee-brewing company. “The most common brewing techniques are 100 years old—not because we got it right 100 years ago, but because nobody’s been working on it.” Kuempel explains that making excellent coffee requires three parts: First is the origin of the bean, and second is roasting. “But where the rubber meets the road is brewing,” he tells Newscripts. “Asking how good is a coffee is like asking how fast is a Ferrari. If you put my grandmother behind the wheel of a Ferrari, ...