Does coffee affect you?

[lymond]

I drink coffee every morning. And yes, it affects me nicely. Interestingly, I did not start drinking coffee until well into adulthood - not even in college. It wasn't until I tried good coffee like Harbucks or Peets that I started to really like it. Also, did not start making it at home until very recently - like I never made coffee at all. Got me a French Press and press me outta big cup every day. I mainly drink Peets coffee, but will mix it up now and then with Starbucks. Tried Seattle's Best for the first time not long ago - got a bag on sale - and it was pretty darn good. Illy is excellent too, but generally runs a bit higher in price.

My preferred style is Café au Lait (not popular at all in the States), which I try to do my best with at home with a frother. I use unsweetened vanilla almond milk.

Anyway, love the taste, smell, and effect....and really can't function without my 20 oz+ cup in the morning. (ofc, it is a drug, so I could wean myself of it, but why get rid of something so wonderful)

I have moved from dark roast to medium roast recently, though I love dark roast. I was just finding it a bit rough on the stomach.

I try not to drink coffee after 12 PM, as it can impact my sleep, which is already not good. (My grandmother was a coffee-holic almost. She drank it any time of day, and often at night, with no effect on her sleep at all.)

yup, coffee is a diuretic.

 

[Samson]

I drink coffee every morning. And yes, it affects me nicely. Interestingly, I did not start drinking coffee until well into adulthood - not even in college. It wasn't until I tried good coffee like Harbucks or Peets that I started to really like it. Also, did not start making it at home until very recently - like I never made coffee at all. Got me a French Press and press me outta big cup every day. I mainly drink Peets coffee, but will mix it up now and then with Starbucks. Tried Seattle's Best for the first time not long ago - got a bag on sale - and it was pretty darn good. Illy is excellent too, but generally runs a bit higher in price.

My preferred style is Café au Lait (not popular at all in the States), which I try to do my best with at home with a frother. I use unsweetened vanilla almond milk.

Anyway, love the taste, smell, and effect....and really can't function without my 20 oz+ cup in the morning. (ofc, it is a drug, so I could wean myself of it, but why get rid of something so wonderful)

I have moved from dark roast to medium roast recently, though I love dark roast. I was just finding it a bit rough on the stomach.

I try not to drink coffee after 12 PM, as it can impact my sleep, which is already not good. (My grandmother was a coffee-holic almost. She drank it any time of day, and often at night, with no effect on her sleep at all.)

yup, coffee is a diuretic.

Do you grind your own beans? I recently got an electric grinder, and it has made my coffee loads better. It is hardly surprising, most of the nice flavours are volatile as it smells so good.

 

[Gori the Grey]

One must grind one's own beans.

 

[EnglishEdward]

I buy beans and grind them if I have time OTHERWISE I use instant coffee.

I see little purpose in buying pre ground coffee bean dust, and pouring hot water over it.

 

[Ordnael]

Coffee doesn't affect me. Alcohol usually not that much either, only beer and champagne. Maybe it is the bubbles?

There are titans among us
Alcohol affects me and it doesn't take that much either. Champagne always gives me a bad, bad hangover. Last time I couldn't drink for months...I will be sure to keep away from the sparkly next time.

Oh and instant coffee capsules for me.
Tea on the other hand I am learning the marvels of buying dried plants packets instead of tea bags. I do enjoy a cereal bowl size cup of tea or a roasted barley cereal mix every morning. I also have a lemon verbena shrub on my mother-in-law's garden whose fresh leaves make a very aromatic tea!

 

[Akka]

The only acceptable coffee is beans that are ground by the machine making it.
It's been about 20 years that I've used exclusively these.

 

[lymond]

Do you grind your own beans? I recently got an electric grinder, and it has made my coffee loads better. It is hardly surprising, most of the nice flavours are volatile as it smells so good.

When I first got the press, I exclusively ground beans. I got a cheap electric grinder...like real cheap. Ground is better, but the cheap grinder is annoying cause you it does not have settings. You have to feel your way to the course grind. I need a more expensive grinder where I can just set it and forget it. Or one of those expensive hand grinders.

Ground coffee works well enough though in the press.

 

[NovaKart]

I started drinking coffee when I was pretty young. I was very tall when I was about 11, I was the tallest person in my class and even taller than one of our very short teachers. A lot of American people used to say that coffee would stunt your growth. I don’t know if people still do this. I used to believe that and I was worried I would be freakishly tall when I became an adult so I purposefully drank coffee in an attempt to do that. Since then I’ve heard it’s not true, coffee doesn’t stunt your growth.

In Kurdistan I really struggled to find a coffee maker that wasn’t a $100 German model at one of the luxury supermarkets. In America you can get a small one for like $20. I finally found one after wandering around the bazaar for ages. The guy who sold it to me didn’t believe I was American because he said I wasn’t muscular enough. The coffee machine ended up not working well at all.

I tried to find a French press but the one place I found one in the bazaar only had the bottom part. I think the vendors just didn’t know what it was. Finally I found one at the mall in Erbil one time when I visited there.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

There are titans among us
Alcohol affects me and it doesn't take that much either. Champagne always gives me a bad, bad hangover. Last time I couldn't drink for months...I will be sure to keep away from the sparkly next time.

Oh and instant coffee capsules for me.
Tea on the other hand I am learning the marvels of buying dried plants packets instead of tea bags. I do enjoy a cereal bowl size cup of tea or a roasted barley cereal mix every morning. I also have a lemon verbena shrub on my mother-in-law's garden whose fresh leaves make a very aromatic tea!

Maybe it is because I don't drink that much coffee. Here is Spain we drink 'torrefacto' coffee (sugar is mixed with coffee beans before toast or something like that) which makes coffee much stronger. It is hard to drink too much of that thing LoL. They say it is healthier than normal coffee though.

 

[stfoskey12]

I drink coffee almost every day and it absolutely makes me feel more awake and energetic. My typical routine is one morning coffee and one afternoon tea, both of which have a noticeable effect.

 

[MrCynical]

Coffee gives me an appalling headache about an hour after drinking it. So does tea and and other high caffeine drinks, so I avoid all of them. This tends to result in people looking at me like I'm a space alien during breaks where coffee and tea are the only options, and I don't want either. I don't think I'm missing much - coffee I recall as tasting almost undrinkably disgusting anyway.

 

[EnglishEdward]

Blimey, that sounds like all the fun of being a traditional Mormon but not allowed more than one wife at a time !

 

[Gori the Grey]

And a planet of your own after you die.

 

[Moriarte]

I knew a guy who drank ten 100ml cups a day, half of his cup was ground coffee, half was water. He said coffee had no effect on him, he just liked the taste. He also talked at the speed of 5 words/sec.

I just buy any pack of ground coffee I see at the supermarket and drink a cup in the morning, sometimes a cup after lunch. 150 ml cup, couple of teaspoons of ground coffee, half a spoon of sugar. Nothing fancy. I really enjoy the taste of any coffee and it gives me mental acuity boost for an hour or so. I should probably get a grinder, some nice coffee beans one of these days and try to up my coffee experience.

 

[Kaitzilla]

It has the very tangible effect of making me retch violently at the taste.

Ya, it tastes like someone took perfectly good cocoa and burned it badly.

Cream and sugar and all the other requirements to make it palatable have to do a lot of lifting.

Coffee-flavored candy is pretty tasty though.


Caffeine is a great stimulant.
A light jog in a cup.

If people are naturally wired highly, drinking it can actually make them tired.
I was that way as a teen.
But years later now it perks me up.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I drink coffee every morning. And yes, it affects me nicely. Interestingly, I did not start drinking coffee until well into adulthood - not even in college. It wasn't until I tried good coffee like Harbucks or Peets that I started to really like it. Also, did not start making it at home until very recently - like I never made coffee at all. Got me a French Press and press me outta big cup every day. I mainly drink Peets coffee, but will mix it up now and then with Starbucks. Tried Seattle's Best for the first time not long ago - got a bag on sale - and it was pretty darn good. Illy is excellent too, but generally runs a bit higher in price.

My preferred style is Café au Lait (not popular at all in the States), which I try to do my best with at home with a frother. I use unsweetened vanilla almond milk.

Anyway, love the taste, smell, and effect....and really can't function without my 20 oz+ cup in the morning. (ofc, it is a drug, so I could wean myself of it, but why get rid of something so wonderful)

I have moved from dark roast to medium roast recently, though I love dark roast. I was just finding it a bit rough on the stomach.

I try not to drink coffee after 12 PM, as it can impact my sleep, which is already not good. (My grandmother was a coffee-holic almost. She drank it any time of day, and often at night, with no effect on her sleep at all.)

yup, coffee is a diuretic.

Cafe au lait style is my preference too, with frothy milk. I usually buy African grown beans, but this week I will be splurging on the worlds best: Kona grown.

 

[Zardnaar]

We have started drinking it more. Probably have 2 a week from a cafe.

Pod coffee machine at home. I drink 2 a day maybe 3 and a decaf.

 

[Samson]

Pod coffee machine at home.

You mean one f the ones that takes the little plastic things? I do not get them, they are so much more expensive to run, and to my taste there is no where ear enough coffee in those little things to make good coffee. That is before the environmental cost of unrecycleable containers.

 

[Zardnaar]

You mean one f the ones that takes the little plastic things? I do not get them, they are so much more expensive to run, and to my taste there is no where ear enough coffee in those little things to make good coffee. That is before the environmental cost of unrecycleable containers.

Its good enough. We're not coffee snobs.

50 cents or a $1 vs $7. Hmmnnn.

 

[Ordnael]

I usually buy African grown beans, but this week I will be splurging on the worlds best: Kona grown.

Careful if you come visit a Portuguese speaking country and ask for Kona, coffee or otherwise! In "red light" streets it might work beyond a healthy laugh
Portugal is the only country I'm aware of that a Hyundai Kona is called Kauai