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[STARSBarry]

St. Helena: OH. MY. GOD.
Just... FANTABULOUS.
Seriously, coffee can taste like this? After the first sip, I just stood staring at my glass for a few seconds, taking it all in.
This one just spreads in your mouth like no other coffee ever did for me, stimulating taste buds that shouldn't even react to coffee.
Strong flavor, yet light texture. Highly digestible. Leaves a very pleasant aftertaste. Boosted me for a whole morning like few other coffees can.
I'm a firm believer now. This St. Helena coffee is truly a special one. Ridiculously expensive (must be like, 7-8x the price of Nespresso originals?), but great.

It's insane right? Like it's just tastes like you imagine fancy coffee is supposed to taste like when someone describes it to you, the fact nothing else does amazes me, blue mountain has a lot of cheaper copy cat blends that give a very similair taste, no one seems to have cracked St Helena yet. It's a bit like that first cup of Blue Mountain after all you have drunk before is instant coffee, except the instant coffee is now blue mountain.

Looks like you are paying for presentation.

Normally with things like this yeah I would agree, but the actual reason is because one of those blends is being shipped from...

It is one of the most remote places on the planet, and has most months a single transport ship for the entire islands trade, that's it. That's what your paying for... but my God do they make great coffee, thank christ the UK owns it so we get first dibs.

One of the other blends in the box is also similarly expensive, but that's because they had to have a jungle cat shit it out in india before bagging it.

 

[BlackCoffee]

No sugar, no creamer. [See username].

 

[Boralf]

 

[West Texas CEO]

Coffee is good.

 

[peish]

Im been doing Ethiopian cold brew, very convenient and some brew i added fresh longan. It’s a great mix, the subtle longan sweetness and ethiopian fruitiness. Try it out fellow coffee snobs

 

[Tams]

I stopped drinking coffee and instead take Nutricost 100mg caffeine pills off Amazon. It's like $7 for 250 capsules, so I get my 8oz coffee equivalent caffeine fix for $.03.

Well, this isn't really the thread for you.

I'm glad you're getting the caffeine hit that you're after, but here we're after the flavour and texture of coffee (plus added extras for some), sometimes even more than for the caffeine.

Hell, for me the ritual of making coffee is what I really like.

 

[BlackCoffee]

Well, this isn't really the thread for you.

I'm glad you're getting the caffeine hit that you're after, but here we're after the flavour and texture of coffee (plus added extras for some), sometimes even more than for the caffeine.

Hell, for me the ritual of making coffee is what I really like.

A lot of it is the ritual for me too.

 

[Coconutt]

My preferred way of drinking coffee is after taking a couple of bong hits.

 

[BlackCoffee]

My preferred way of drinking coffee is after taking a couple of bong hits.

 

[Insane Metal]

Well, this isn't really the thread for you.

I'm glad you're getting the caffeine hit that you're after, but here we're after the flavour and texture of coffee (plus added extras for some), sometimes even more than for the caffeine.

Hell, for me the ritual of making coffee is what I really like.

You know what, I'm gonna make myself some right now.

 

[BlackCoffee]

You know what, I'm gonna make myself some right now.

Is there a thing like "coffee overdosing"? I might be reaching that point some day...

 

[Insane Metal]

Is there a thing like "coffee overdosing"? I might be reaching that point some day...

Yes. I had a coworker who drank like a whole bottle of coffee in a morning and he went to the hospital as he was shaking and hyperventilating.

 

[Drake]

We got any Canadian/WNY posters in the house? Love me some Tim Horton's coffee.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

Well, this isn't really the thread for you.

I'm glad you're getting the caffeine hit that you're after, but here we're after the flavour and texture of coffee (plus added extras for some), sometimes even more than for the caffeine.

Hell, for me the ritual of making coffee is what I really

And I enjoy hearing your guys' perspectives on it. Thought you might enjoy hearing mine

 

[STARSBarry]

Yes. I had a coworker who drank like a whole bottle of coffee in a morning and he went to the hospital as he was shaking and hyperventilating.

Caffeine overdose is a serious thing, about 2 decades back we had a guy on nightshift I worked with who drank a shit ton of energy drinks, anyway one night I just find him spazzing out on the floor full on seizure. We phoned an ambulance quick and he was taken to hospital, but yeah just like any drug you can overdose. He didn't touch the stuff after that.

 

[Tams]

And I enjoy hearing your guys' perspectives on it. Thought you might enjoy hearing mine

Well... you're even participating in the hobby, so...

 

[Grildon Tundy]

Is there a thing like "coffee overdosing"? I might be reaching that point some day...

The FDA says ~400mg of caffeine per day is unlikely to have negative side effects (about 4 cups of coffee). Rapidly intaking around 1,200mg of caffeine has been observed to cause seizures.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

I'm drinking Death Wish coffee for the first time and it is surprisingly very good.

 

[killatopak]

I quite like coffee. Lessens my appetite for some reason and helps my intermittent fasting.

I don't drink them every day though. maybe twice or thrice a week. I don't want caffeine addiction. Happened to my father and he developed heartburns due to frequent consumption. Up to two coffee pots a day back in his university years.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

I really want an iced mocha so bad right now.

 

[ResurrectedContrarian]

the 400 mg limit is something I generally stay under, but tonight I had extra work to do well past midnight, so it was another round of espresso around 10pm

without coffee, not sure how I'd ever handle late night work sessions without dying of exhaustion headaches

 

[WhiteWaterM00se]

Hi Everyone,

I am looking for a medium or medium light roast ORGANIC COFFEE that is sold at grocery stores/amazon/Whole Foods, etc.

Looking for something that taste similar to Dunkin.

Thanks for your recommendations!

 

[Trogdor1123]

The wife really likes kicking horse coffee. I don’t drink coffee though so couldn’t say.

 

[Lambogenie]

Not much of a snob, I'll drink instant coffee for ease and enjoy it. But also enjoy whatever random brewed coffee shop or office has. It's the hassle to do it at home, and the variety of beans that get confusing. And machines are expensive. So instant it is.

Tried kopi luwak. Was nothing special and absolute rip off if you're not in Indonesia itself.

 

[Trilobit]

I've been trying to lose weight so I've knocked off my typical red bull routine and gone coffee-only and actually I have gotten a better "high" with just sugarless coffee. I absolutely love the ritual of presso coffee, how you let it be on the table until you press it down and pour that wonderful black liquid into your cup and soul. I think I'll also make some with my Bialetti moka pot later on. It doesn't give me the same amount in milliliters, but I think it's fun to brew with it and I love how feisty it makes the coffee.

What I think separates coffee from the likes of tea is that I never see it as hot water with coffee, like I see hot water with tea. The hot water actually becomes coffee. A black oily substance unlike anything else on Earth. I once got a cup of "coffee" with a minuscule amount of coffee and it was like cofftea and I was almost offended. It felt like a mockery of all things natural. I always put an extra amount of ground coffee to be on the safe side.