David Lynch’s Weird Espresso Maker Gets Taken for a Test Drive

David Lynch loved his coffee. For decades, the filmmaker let coffee fuel his creativity, drinking five, six, even seven cups per day at Bob’s Big Boy. Famously, Lynch celebrated coffee in Twin Peaks (remember the line, “That’s a damn fine cup of coffee!”), and later directed a whole mini-season of Twin Peaks in the form of Japanese coffee commercials. Then, in 2006, the director launched his own line of organic coffee, sold at Whole Foods.

When the filmmaker died this past January, he left...