I Love Coffee

I love drinking coffee. I'm not a coffee connoisseur or anything, probably the opposite, but I enjoy drinking coffee all the time.

Here are a few things around this mundane habit:

Dark roast is my favorite. I know it has less caffeine, but I like the strong flavor. I found that in the black oily beans of Starbucks' Dark Roast. For a little bit more than a year I allowed myself the luxury of an Amazon subscription for the Starbucks Dark Roast beans. A subscription because it was a bit cheaper and I had no other way to get the coffee. But it was still costly. 30+ EUR per 1kg if I remember right. I ditched the subscription after I finally found a European option in Kimbo Espresso Napoletano and Barzini extra dark and I found in coffeehenk a new supplier. I'm not sure if it's a 1:1 replacement, but I already got used to it.

Talking about caffeine. I think I have a high tolerance. I can drink it late in the evening and I fall asleep just fine. And yes, light roasts have more caffeine than dark roasts, but the other day I ate a whole bag of caffeinated gummies and drank a can of koawach (kokoa with guarana) and I didn't feel anything. Not sure if I should be bummed out, but this way I can enjoy more coffee.

I don't know when, but at some point I stopped drinking coffee with cream and sugar. I think it was when I stopped smoking, over a decade ago. Sugar for obvious reasons. Cream, because I the powdered stuff was just too artificial, even if I liked it more than putting real cream or milk in. Black coffee it is since then.

A weird habit I have is to not drink the whole mug. I leave a third and it gets cold. I don't know why. It's a waste. But I'm drinking some of the cold coffee and I don't dislike it. I mean there is iced coffee. And I heard once, coffee is of good quality, if you can drink it cold.

The worst coffee I've ever had was on an Amtrak train. It was weak, kind of sour and just an insult.

For a long time I made the coffee by putting the ground coffee into a mug and pouring boiling water over it and then had to deal with coffee grounds between my teeth or a burnt tongue. I used a French press for the longest time until I got a Bialetti Espresso Maker. That changed everything. I love that. Not the tiny ones for Espresso, but the bigger ones where I can make coffee for one mug.

Also I ended up with a low-cost De'Longhi KG 89 coffee grinder that I had to mod for a finer grind. Works pretty well!

I think that's all I have to share about coffee.