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Ownership of Blue Bottle Coffee changes hands

By Oliver Strand The New York Times October 17, 2012 James Freeman with a Japanese-style siphon  at Blue Bottle Coffee in San Francisco. Photo: Peter DaSilva via The New York Times Blue Bottle Coffee, the respected California coffee micro-roaster that introduced the Japanese-style  siphon bar  to San Francisco before opening shops in Chelsea, TriBeCa, Rockefeller Center and Williamsburg, Brooklyn, has a new owner. According to a  filing made with the Securities Exchange Commission , Bryan Meehan is the new president and chief executive of Blue Bottle Coffee Inc., heading a group of investors who purchased a controlling stake in Blue Bottle Coffee LLC for more than $19.6 million. Kohlberg Ventures, which invested in Blue Bottle Coffee in 2008, no longer has a stake in the company. The news was reported in TechCrunch, The Wall Street Journal and other news-media outlets. Mr. Meehan is the Dublin-born entrepreneur behind Fresh & Wil...