light/medium/dark roast all have basically the same amount of caffeine. The myth that light roast has more is still preached by baristas everywhere though.
you need to get SUPER fresh beans if going with darkroast b/c it is the most oily it spoils super quick. Basically, unless you can buy direct from the brick&mortar roaster weekly I’d suggest getting light or medium roast beans.
Lastly, it’s (within reason) all personal preference, so have coffee the way you like it and fuck the haters.
I’m fine with crap cheap coffee as long as it’s black, but not scorched. When my wife goes to $tarbuck$, she buys me the Nitro Cold Brew. Something about that foam shocks my lips the first time I take a sip. Every time!
Oh, and there’s always this for a proper kick in the ass…
Get one of these, and get whole beans. It doesn’t grind fine enough for espresso, nor coarse enough for French press, but its pretty dialed for most pourovers and drips. It’ll be a significant step up in taste, with minimal monetary investment. Tough to beat really good coffee in my tumbler on the way into the mountains after a big breakfast.
Even at Philz, a very expensive and trendy coffee spot in the Bay Area, regular coffees are not close to $5. And sodas from a vending machine are not 50 cents.
That said…what? Do also not understand why someone would spend $$ on a nice plate of carne asada, rice, and beans (I love Mexican food), when they could buy a few candy bars for the same effect?
Gotta drink 3 cans of Coke to get the same amount of caffeine as a cup of coffee.
Coffee, like beer or wine, or spirits is an aquired taste. Some folks don’t make the effort or see the benefit of aquiring that taste. Plus the caffeine is a great bonus.
There really needs to be an established sarcasm font for text formats. It looks like I hit a nerve with that comment about preferring coke over coffee. Haha
Honestly, I have a bad enough sweet tooth I probably could get the same amount of sugar in a cup of coffee as a coke. Plus caffeine doesn’t do much for me. I’ve drunk half a pot of coffee (with obscene amounts of sugar) in about 20 minutes without any difference in alertness. There’s just not much incentive for me to drink coffee.
So there needs to be a sarcasm format to let us know you were sarcastic, BUT you meant what you said and you could fit 40 grams of sugar per cup of coffee and it wouldn’t make a difference for you?
I like coffee but yeah always talking about it and shit like “Omg don’t talk to me till I’ve had my coffee!” are annoying. Especially when that person then has a latte that doesn’t have much caffeine in it anyway.
I sometimes wonder if I annoy our office cleaning lady with the way I talk about coffee. I don’t particularly care if I do even though she’s a wonderful lady, but I still wonder.
You see, I feel like I owe her a fresh answer every time she asks me what I’m doing when I’m clearly filling up my coffee vessel. I don’t want to fall into the trap of recycling stale euphemisms for getting coffee in the break room, nor am I interested in giving a direct and clear answer to the question I get asked at least two or three times a week. I want to keep my answers to her persistent query fresh.
“Whatcha doin?”
“Filling up on the good stuff, that’s what I’m doing.” “Oh you know, time to gas up the truck.” “It’s a two-cup kinda day, you know?” “Time for a little kick in the pants.” “It’s Joe time.” “How many pots of decaf do you make a day, and who are the people consuming it in my presence?” “You know what, I’m cutting myself off and switching to the clear stuff.”
I’ve been keeping a real good one in my back pocket. Remember the “Making Some Copies” guy from back when SNL was a comedy show? “Making some coff-ee”. I’ve made a promise to myself to only use that answer once, and only once. I’m saving that one for a rainy day.
I find a “it’s that time of the day, again” covers you as an acceptable catch phrase to coffee questions that can be repeated ad nauseam until the other person gives up asking at the same time each day
