Siphon coffee

Here's the Syphon coffee from 49th parallel, vancouver's famed coffee shop. At $5/cup, it is actually to be shared. This method of coffee brewing diesn't yield a stronger brew than your average drip machine, certainly is not as strong as the traditional Italian moka pot, but the novelty of the method must intrigue even the non-physicists... And for me it brought back pleasant memories of the tiny coffee shop in Mito, Japan, that I first saw this aparatus - this particular one at 49th wad also from Japan, but the water was heated with a much sophisticated halogen lamp...

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