Yes for the Starbucks addicts and electric wand users, but even black coffee consumers are drinking some mild bean water instead of proper coffee. Even our espresso is weak af most of the time.
Yeah caffeine content for something you could measure but I was more talking about flavor. Shit beans are very common in the US but we also use more water and fewer beans so even when you get good coffee it just feels a bit diluted, even black. At least from restaurants and cafes, I’m perfectly happy with most home brewed coffee here as long as it’s not like foldgers from a clock/coffee maker combo, even some of cupped Keurig-like stuff is okay. I feel like our cold brews are decent too.
Yup. That said, espresso also uses more coffee per amount of liquid, and the amount of caffeine is basically a function of the amount of coffee and how long it’s in contact with the water.
Yes for the Starbucks addicts and electric wand users, but even black coffee consumers are drinking some mild bean water instead of proper coffee. Even our espresso is weak af most of the time.
how do you measure strength of coffee? caffeine content?
Yeah caffeine content for something you could measure but I was more talking about flavor. Shit beans are very common in the US but we also use more water and fewer beans so even when you get good coffee it just feels a bit diluted, even black. At least from restaurants and cafes, I’m perfectly happy with most home brewed coffee here as long as it’s not like foldgers from a clock/coffee maker combo, even some of cupped Keurig-like stuff is okay. I feel like our cold brews are decent too.
Espresso doesn’t just have a high concentration of caffeine, it also has a high concentration of every other part of the coffee bean.
It has less caffeine because it extracts quickly under pressure. Strength = flavor
Yup. That said, espresso also uses more coffee per amount of liquid, and the amount of caffeine is basically a function of the amount of coffee and how long it’s in contact with the water.
the worst was old percolated coffee people drank in the 60s-70s, just bitter and caffeine.
Yup. But lots of perk for the dollar.
true, hence the high pressure through compressed grounds