Coffee
Drink coffee on occasions, try not to do it daily as to get actual effects from the caffeine. Also make sure to not drink past afternoon so as to not disrupt my sleep.
Tea is my daily drink of choice and I try to always have it by my side.
James Hoffmann does nice videos on coffee.
Interesting
Notes
- Caffeine is a stimulant. The avg half life of caffeine in an adult is around 5h. So if you have a coffee at 5pm, it means that only 50% of it is gone by 10pm. Depending on how quickly you metabolise coffee, that half life could actually be up to 9h.
- Sometimes going to get coffee isn’t really about the coffee
- Coffee, done right, is delicious. High quality bean, appropriately roasted, relatively fresh, freshly ground immediately before use with a bur grinder, and then your choice of method, plenty of grinds but almost always hot water, and preferably some pressure to extract oils, finally filtered through paper. My weapon of choice is an aeropress or a manual espresso press. An Americano is arguably superior to a cup of drip. I drink it black.
- Caffeine has a half-life of around 6-7 hours, but a quarter-life of around 12 hours. If you have a cup of coffee at noon, a quarter of that caffeine can still be circulating around your brain at midnight.
- Moccamaster + Encore is great coffee combo.
- Caffeine doesn't give you energy, it blocks adenosine which prevents you from feeling tired.
Links
- Coffee On Pino
- Max Stoiber's coffee setup
- My coffee setup (2017)
- Coffee at home - How I got into making pourovers at home and how you can, too.
- Handbrewing coffee (2019) (HN)
- Maps of specialty coffee shops around the world
- The Birth of Espresso (2019)
- Beginners Guide to Coffee Tasting (2019)
- Systematically Improving Espresso: Insights from Mathematical Modeling and Experiment (2020)
- How to make perfect French Press
- Milk Steaming For Latte Art - Barista Tutorial
- What Cafés Did for Liberalism (2018) (HN)
- Coffee Bros - Small-batch Coffee Roasters in the Heart of NYC.
- Coffee setup recs
- Niche Zero Coffee Grinder
- How do you make coffee? (2020)
- Health Effects of Coffee (2020) (HN)
- No More Coffee (HN)
- Caffenol: Developing Photos with Coffee and Vitamin C (2020) (HN)
- Engineering Exploration in Building a Coffee Machine (2020)
- AeroPress - Device for brewing coffee. (Tweet)
- Low-tech “mild coffee” with Aeropress (2020)
- How to enjoy coffee
- HashiCafe Coffee Art (2020)
- Economics of Coffee in One Chart (2020)
- How do you decaffeinate coffee? (2018) (HN)
- I (almost) quit caffeine in one year (2021) (HN)
- Espresso machine suggestions (2021)
- Tasting Coffee - Explore and taste a coffee roaster.
- Other foods/sweets can change the taste of coffee
- Never had coffee, recommendations? (2021)
- Best coffee alternatives
- Habitual coffee drinkers have a distinct pattern of brain functionalconnectivity (2021) (HN)
- Artisan - Software that helps coffee roasters record, analyze, and control roast profiles. (Code)
- Stumptown Coffee Roasters
- Why I Quit Caffeine (as a software developer)
- Making Coffee In A Clear Glass Moka Pot
- The 4:6 method for coffee-brewing (2017) (HN)
- A Beginner's Guide to Coffee Grinders (2021)
- Chazzano Coffee Roasters
- Which country has best coffee? (2021)
- Открыл кофейню в деревне у границ России: #монолог австрийского оптимиста (2020)
- Breville Barista Express Espresso Maker (Tweet)
- Ultimate set of machines and tools to be able to make espresso, lattes, and everything in between (2021)
- The Humble Brilliance of Italy's Moka Coffee Pot (2018) (HN)
- A Beginner's Guide to Resting Coffee (2021) (Reddit)
- I quit caffeine (HN)
- The Coffee Maker: An Illustrated Look at the Career of James Hoffmann (2022) (Reddit)
- The Ultimate Moka Pot Technique (2022) (Reddit)
- How do you make a rich Turkish Coffee?
- Ask HN: Quit caffeine? Before and after anecdotes (2022)
- Good french press machines (2022)
- Experiences running a coffee shop (2022)
- Coffee Quality Institute Database
- The case for bad coffee (2015) (HN)
- Osma - Freshly extracted cold brew in 90 seconds.
- Cold-brewing of coffee by picosecond-pulsed laser extraction (2022) (HN)
- Systematically Improving Espresso (2020) (HN)
- Coffee & Muslim culture
- The Science of Coffee — Examining extraction
- James Hoffmann Answers Coffee Questions From Twitter (2022)
- I don't like coffee. Can James Hoffmann change that? (2021)
- Beanconqueror - Open source project for coffee enthusiasts.
- What’s your favorite treat to have with your coffee, that isn’t sweet?
- Fellow - Brew Ridiculously Good Coffee.
- Moccamaster
- AnzaCoffee
- Wilfa - Coffee Equipment and Kitchen Appliances.
- Hacking Bluetooth to Brew Coffee from GitHub Actions (2022) (Code) (Reddit) (HN)
- I Did Caffeine Analysis: Some Unexpected Results (2022) (Reddit)
- Ask HN: What to do with a coffee plantation with about 8000 trees? (2022)
- Ethiopian coffee beans blew my mind
- My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee (2023) (HN)
- What Is the Best Way to Learn Latte Art?
- Method for reducing coffee acidity (HN)f
- The beginner's guide to over complicating coffee (2023) (HN)
- An Open-Source Espresso (2023) (HN)
- Coffee book recommendations to improve brewing at home (2023)
- My DIY Coffee Bar Setup (2023)
- DIY Espresso (2020) (HN)
- 'Unusual' coffee drinks you recommend? (2023)