I Now Drink My Coffee Black

[Disambiguator]

Dark chocolate goes well with a good Highland Single Malt, too.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I like the Hario V60 ceramic pour-over with the Hario filters. Try pre-rinsing the filters first. Grind your own beans; fairly coarse grind; 14:1 to 16:1 ratio of water/coffee. Get the water up to 200F. Wet the grounds to let them "bloom" and drive off CO2.

Very smooth coffee and zero sludge in your cup. It's wonderful. And very fast clean-up.

[imardmd1]

Good deal! Although if your coffee is bitter it's--as you say--either not fresh (oxygenated?) or too strong, or both; or not freshly ground, or cheap beans or . . .

Find somebody that sells goodcoffee.

And dark chocolate? the darker you can stand it, the better. It contains phenylethanolamine, the compound your brain cuses your body to make when you think you are falling in love. Eat a bar of it when depressed, and you'll feel a little bit happier a couple of hours later.

Try it. You'll see.

But for every cup of coffee, drink a glass of water; otherwise, since caffeine is a diuretic and removes more water from your body than it adds, you'll get dehydrated, and maybe your blood pressure might dip, making you feel kind of weak. Cocoa has caffeine in it, too.

[imardmd1]

>> After dinner coffee gets a splash of Crave Chocolate Chili liquor. YUMMMMM! <<

With Mocha Java . . .

[Jewbacca]

I like mine ground up and in the freezer.

[S.O.S121.500]

Ghirardelli Baking Chocolate. No sugar and a square in the evening is a ‘reward’ after you 86 sugars.

[vpintheak]

Sugar and creams in coffee is for little boys and women.
Straight black is by far the best. Hands down

[matthew fuller]

I did a lot of taste testing a few of years back, actually when Maryland Club or Maxwell House (can’t remember which) switched from Arabica to Robusta coffee, (many mainstream supermarket brands all did) and found out that robusta is crap, and most Arabica is good. If the brand that you drink is non-specific, it’s almost guaranteed to be robusta, because the manufacturers know that Arabica helps sell the product. I also just recently found a very good Colombian Coffee, Arabica, from Costco (Kirkland) that is great and costs $8.99. That is for three real pounds. It is roasted by Starbucks. It is also available on Amazon for $16.00.

http://www.purelycoffeebeans.com/kirkland-coffee.html

I have no financial interest in Costco or the Amazon sellers, or the above website.

[umgud]

Once I tested the ph of 2 hour old coffee. It was about 2.7ph, right close to being a strong acid. Never tested it fresh.

[MinorityRepublican]

My stomach gets upset if I don’t add cream and sugar to my coffee first thing in the morning.

[imardmd1]

That's extremely interesting. Wonder what fresh coffee is like.

My best place is owned by a Turk, and the coffee there flows so rapidly that it is almost always really "just made."

At Panera's, the pressure-feeding coffee jugs have a ticket hung on the neck showing the time that jug was made. When it gets to be 30 minutes it has started to become sort of bitter.

[MarkL]

I limit myself to 1 cup of coffee a day... Of course, it’s a 52oz insulated mug.

Mark

[umgud]

In regard to ph, I did this somewhat on a lark. I didn’t set it up scientifically. I would have to do this over with better qc/qa.

[SunkenCiv]

Some writing about coffee, a.k.a. javascript.

[mumblypeg]

French Market brand coffee and chicory.
With a teaspoon of coconut oil.

[zencycler]

Real men don’t use milk and sugar in their coffee.

[LucyT]

Black coffee?

This article must be racist. ( /s tag in case it is needed.)

[Boogieman]

Any stimulant can have that effect. When I tried to quit smoking using nicotine patches, I had the most vivid dreams (and nightmares), because you are supposed to leave the patch on 24 hours a day. So I was actually getting stimulants not just before bedtime, but all through the night.

Though, the dreams would usually be so vivid I would start getting night sweats and sweat the patch right off!

[Boogieman]

Definitely there is an element of that. If you keep a “dream journal”, and write down what you remember in the morning, you will soon find that you remember more details all the time.

I think it is because when you don’t do that, your brain dismisses the dreams as useless information, white noise, and just “deletes” them from your short term memory. If you start keeping track, your brain learns that the dream must have some value to you and stops doing that, or not as much.

[wardaddy]

Dark and bitter

Like my women.....