But I love coffee. I drink it black most of the time. I even drink my decaf black, that's how hard-core I am.
I do cut back on caffeine, with good results. If I'm drinking too much, my shoulders get knotted up much more easily, I'm more anxious, my heartbeat feels more irregular, and other icky stuff. I currently mix my beans half and half.
I make my coffee in a very low-tech way. I have a cone filter that I fill with freshly ground beans, and set on top of the pot, and I pour just-boiled water through, a bit at a time. I'm a snob, and I think it tastes much better this way than if the water is heated by a coffee-pot's heating element, and I also think having the pot sitting on a heating plate is a bad thing.
And my favorite "froofy" drink is Starbucks' carmel macchiato, but with an extra espresso shot, and without the vanilla shot. They have some fancy-ass term for this drink which I can never remember. Oh - and this is one of the few coffee drinks that's really good with soy milk, too, in my opinion.
But in general, I'm not a Starbucks fan - their coffee tends to taste burnt to me.
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Date: 2007-02-21 03:13 pm (UTC)But I love coffee. I drink it black most of the time. I even drink my decaf black, that's how hard-core I am.
I do cut back on caffeine, with good results. If I'm drinking too much, my shoulders get knotted up much more easily, I'm more anxious, my heartbeat feels more irregular, and other icky stuff. I currently mix my beans half and half.
I make my coffee in a very low-tech way. I have a cone filter that I fill with freshly ground beans, and set on top of the pot, and I pour just-boiled water through, a bit at a time. I'm a snob, and I think it tastes much better this way than if the water is heated by a coffee-pot's heating element, and I also think having the pot sitting on a heating plate is a bad thing.
And my favorite "froofy" drink is Starbucks' carmel macchiato, but with an extra espresso shot, and without the vanilla shot. They have some fancy-ass term for this drink which I can never remember. Oh - and this is one of the few coffee drinks that's really good with soy milk, too, in my opinion.
But in general, I'm not a Starbucks fan - their coffee tends to taste burnt to me.