Appalachian Manufacturing Company · Pennsylvania
Know all by these presents: the Heritage Drip is a drip coffee maker with no plastic in it, anywhere. Its body is solid walnut; its shower head, knob, and footing are stainless steel dressed in brass; its brew cone, water chamber, and carafe are glass, and the carafe makes three cups. It brews the morning the old way — hot water, good grounds, and gravity — and it is built to keep doing so for a very long time. We back that with a five-year warranty.
Article I — Materials Attested
Walnut, brass-coated steel, and glass. That’s everything you can see, and what you can’t see is listed below too. None of it is plastic.
Walnut
The body, brew deck, base, and carafe handle are solid walnut, cut and finished by hand.
It will look better in ten years than it does today.
Steel & Brass
The shower head, lid knob, and feet are stainless steel with a brass coating, so all the hardware matches.
The steel does the work. The brass looks good doing it.
Glass
The swirled brew cone, water chamber, and carafe are all glass. The carafe holds three cups.
Your coffee touches glass, not plastic.
One more thing you should know. The heating element is aluminum and the piping is stainless steel. You can’t join those two metals directly without corrosion, so the junction between them is food-grade silicone. Still no plastic anywhere, and nothing that sheds microplastics.
Plate I — The Works
Point at any part — we’ll tell you exactly what it’s made of.
Index of the Works
- 1Walnut lid & brass knob
Solid walnut crown; brass-dressed steel pull.
- 2Glass water chamber
Glass — you watch the water go to work.
- 3The shower arm
Stainless steel dressed in brass, poised over the cone.
- 4Swirled brew cone
Swirled glass, seated in its walnut collar.
- 5Walnut column & base
One square column of solid walnut on its footed base.
- 6The carafe
Glass, makes three cups; walnut handle.
Drawn in the shop manner — an engraving of the machine, not a photograph.
The Plates
Reserved —
photography forthcoming
Article II — The Making
Every Heritage Drip is built by hand in our workshop in Pennsylvania. We take our time with each one, and we don’t cut corners.
This company is new. We started in 2026, and we’re not going to pretend otherwise. The old-fashioned part isn’t a made-up history. It’s how we build.
Hand crafted in Appalachia · Trademark Pennsylvania · Estd 2026
Tagged at the bench
Our shop tag has two blank lines on it: a part number and a date. If we’re willing to write those down and hang it on something, we stand behind that thing. Heritage goods, hand-assembled in Appalachia.
Schedule A — What Is Made Where
You will not find the words “Made in the USA” on this certificate. The law reserves that claim for goods made of all-or-virtually-all American parts, and some of ours come from farther afield. We’d rather tell you exactly how it is.
- The walnut work
- Body, lid, brew deck, and base — cut, shaped, and finished at our bench in Pennsylvania.
- The glass
- Brew cone, water chamber, and carafe — precision-made glassware from a specialist glassworks.
- The hardware
- Shower head, lid knob, and footing — brass-dressed stainless steel from trusted suppliers.
- The hot path
- Aluminum element, stainless piping, food-grade silicone junction — sourced, then fitted by us.
- The assembly
- Every machine is assembled, tested, tagged, and packed by hand in our Pennsylvania workshop.
Hand crafted in Appalachia, from parts gathered at home and abroad. That is the honest sentence, so it is the one we print.
The Maker
Nevada Eby · Founder & Maker
From fourteen to twenty-one I was a fine woodworker and a blacksmith. Then I set the hobbies down and went to work in the family construction company.
Most manufacturers hate their customers. I decided that with my skills, I could do it better.
Somewhere in those years I grew disillusioned with the way modern things are made — the look of them, and the way they work. So in 2024 I set out to manufacture a plastic-free, honest, beautiful, basic coffee maker. A great many prototypes later, we have our first product — with many more to follow.
— Nevada Eby
Article III — The Five-Year Bond
We warrant every Heritage Drip against defects in materials and workmanship for five years from the day it reaches you. If it fails you in honest use, we will repair or replace it. A coffee maker built from walnut, steel, and glass has no excuse to do otherwise.
Pennsylvania · Estd 2026
The Particulars
Appalachian MFG. Co.
The Heritage Drip
Specification Tag
- Body
- Solid walnut
- Hardware
- Stainless steel, brass-coated — shower head, lid knob, footing
- Brewer & carafe
- Glass; the carafe makes three cups
- The hot path
- Aluminum element, stainless piping, food-grade silicone junction
- Plastic content
- None — and no microplastics
- Warranty
- Five years
- Price
- $528
- Dimensions & weight
- To be published — measurements underway
- Shipping
- Free to the lower 48 for the launch
- Returns
- Policy to be published before launch
