Coffee Drinking

[mishalak]

Last year I mostly switched over to drinking coffee instead of tea. I still like tea, but the library runs on coffee and I just fell into the habit. So I've been making coffee at home during the pandemic. It is a nice drink, but at times the reports about caffeine half life in the body and so on might be impacting my sleep. This is no different than tea it just happens that this is my caffeine drink of this time.

So right now I'm down to drinking two small cups, 400 ml of coffee. It is brewed quite weak, though. Only 14 g of beans in that so it is probably about 100 mg of caffeine. Just at a wild guess that the first 200 ml of water extract the usual 80 mg. According to a great many people who experiment with coffee brewing a ratio of 15-18 to 1 is better for flavor. The trouble is that I'm greedy and want another cup, but I'm a bad sleeper and if I have caffeine in my system lingering from the 5.7 hour halflife I have a harder time getting to sleep and staying asleep. Maybe I'll go back to tea once I've finished my current kilo of beans.

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[vicarage]

I always drank coffee, but having bought mum Yorkshire Tea she found to strong I've been using it up, so one cup of each a day, and not in the evening as its apparently bad for stomach acid. I think I'll keep it up when the Yorkshire runs out.