Sitting here sipping my first coffee from my new Yama 5 cup tabletop (Thanks for this distribution BJava). I've been using a 5 cup stovetop Yama for a while and loved the brew. I wanted this one for visual effect at the table, although I need to work on a volume problem (5 cup brews just enough for me, if 2 guests want coffee we're in trouble). Anthow, the brew is really, really fine. I'm not a real good note taker but here's basically what I did:
1. Preheated 22 oz. of filtered cold water on the stove (used the pot from the Yama stovetop)
2. Transferred the water to the tabletop and turned on the burner
3. After 1 minute, water started to smoke,
4. Put on the top carafe and added 2 1/2 oz. of Yirgacheffe (FC roast) and stirred
5. Took about 1 more minute for all the water to rise to the top carafe
6. Reduced the heat a bit
7. Let it brew for 3 minutes, stirring once in the middle
8. Turned off the burner
9. Coffe was all in the bottom carafe in 2 more minutes (could have been 1:45)
I am loving this coffee. I'm not a cupper so it's hard for me to describe what I'm tasting. I can say that the cup tastes crisp and I think of pepper and chocolate as it goes ove the tongue.