Source: http://www.toastedfoot.com/2011/01/cigar-review-smoke-magazine-sample-23-summer-issue/
Douby partial, in the same way that history is: necessarily incomplete and subjective.
This post does double work too as both confession and (tentative) guide.
I'm a mostly recovered coffee upgrader/obsessive/pocket-protected-dork. That is, whenever I saw a cool new brewing gizmo at a progressive shop or heard about same through dubiously mediated...media (ahem)...I bought it uncritically. This was costly in more than just a couple of ways.
Source: http://www.roaste.com/CoffeeBlogs/donnedonne/Partial-Thoughts-Brewers
Source: http://www.hawaii-aloha.com/blog/2011/01/18/take-a-moonlit-hike-in-hawaii/
kona coffee from Hawaii 100% maui coffee coffee from Molokai
Vac pots are special in their combination of (1) total-immersion brewing (2) stable hot-but-not-too-hot temperature (3) cloth filtration. (2) and (3) are especially important I think. Cloth isn't necessary but in my opinion it's the best way to go. The agitation is more controlled than that through metal filters (I've tried them all...all), mouthfeel is denser than paper-filtered coffee but it lacks the sediment of metal-filtration. I did a post on maintenance some time ago.
Source: http://www.roaste.com/CoffeeBlogs/donnedonne/Using-Vacuum-Pot
Source: http://www.paradise-found-in-maui.com/coconut-monkey.html