Clarified Coffee

James Hoffman has taste tested 5-6 different attempts at clear coffee but they've all been meh.

There's a lot of at bats in trying to clarify coffee: filtration, centrifuge, gelatin, charcoal, brewing methods, reintroduction of flavor through distillation -- the list goes on, but no matter what you try, it's incredibly difficult to remove color without compromising the flavor and/or the caffeine levels. As a result, clarified coffee attempts have been novelty items at best, and public roasts (no pun intended) at worst.

I've spent the past month trying every angle to no avail. But this must be possible. What am I missing?

If Crystal Pepsi can do it, why can't we?!?