Okay, I distrust the potency of these coffee beans (potentially ultra potent amount of caffeine, enough to maybe cause me a trip to urgent care and the ER with pounding heartbeat and way out of whack BP 😬). All normal here now. Unexpected risk of roasting your own coffee. Tossed into the compost. Will see next week with different beans if it was the beans or I have lost my ability to tolerate caffeine. #coffee
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@fullywoolly @ai6yr This is a completely ironic discussion as this is my first day on a new ADD med that will hopefully not interfere with my sleep.
Still two double espressos this AM but hey... dark roast, less caffeine, right? 😆
@alan @ai6yr ya it is. Dark roast is also my jam. I love the body and flavor of a fully extracted dark roast. And importantly lower acidity. I've never really had the interest in the fruity, funky, floral light roasts that the hipsters love.
I hope you found the one. I know how much of a pain it is to constantly be searching for the magic cocktail that works.
@ai6yr I wonder if these coffee plants are super-stressed by some herbivore and are turning up the caffeine to the max to try to keep from being eaten.
@ClimateJenny Oooh, that's possible. Climate change stress!
@ai6yr Have you by any chance just come off a 30 day or longer period of no caffeine?
@alan Nope... every batch of coffee is different in terms of caffeine potency, however, I have found... independent of roast (lighter roast = much more caffeine). But it changes from bean to bean.
@ai6yr Yep, the darker the roast, the more of it gets lost.
It does turn out that with long term caffeine use, you just wind up developing more receptors, which lessens the effect. Since my addiction now runs over a half century, the stuff does nothing for me. I can drink a large medium roast at 10 pm and be asleep at 11.
It seems the only fix is to go cold turkey for a month.
@alan @ai6yr during my funemployment, I was down to a cup a day in the morning. I still drink that but have usually three or four americanos during the day. Does nothing.
The only time I felt like I was in trouble was after someone dared me to drink 14 shots. I did it thinking it wasn't much more than a normal day for me. But all at once was definitely not good. The way I got my HR under control was forcing myself to nap.
Las Vegas in May. I was by a pool in jeans and a T, arm over my eyes.
@fullywoolly @ai6yr As a teen I was hooked on cola (turns out I was self-medicating ADD, who knew?) I found out how much caffeine was in the stuff, used that to compute my daily intake, and discovered I was just over halfway to LD50 (the dose at which half of a test population dies).
Did I cut back? Hell no!
@alan @ai6yr I started coffee with my grandfather around ~3. Some warm happy memories waiting for the last sips in the bottom of the cup that were cool, milky, and sugary.
Growing up I lived in Utah and my mother didn't really drink it... Also all about soda. In 9th grade I was going through 24 packs no problem. I do remember sitting in one 50 min class going through 3 cans of pepsi.
I wish I knew how much I was actually drinking.
@alan @ai6yr at my first job, also Utah, I had a pot of coffee in my office because the company didn't make coffee. I was going through 2-3 pots a day myself ... Standard Mr Coffee sized pot.
It was to the point I was seriously considering finding a restaurant one so I could have a pot being drained and a new one at the same time.
Let's just say, Fry is my hero.
@fullywoolly @alan LOL My mother once tried to order coffee at the McDonald's on the BYU campus. It did not go well. I don't think they ever figured out how to make a cup.
@fullywoolly @alan LOL girl behind counter: "Does anyone know how to make coffee?" (manager and employee staring at coffee machine for 10 minutes trying to read the manual about making coffee)
@fullywoolly @alan LOL this was 45 years ago, before Starbucks existing in Utah. Back in my elementary school days, lol.
@ai6yr breaking bad: coffee edition
@ai6yr should almost do a lab-test and see if they're spiked with anything. Laced with extra suspicious caffeine/stimulants, or something..
@toots Yeah, one wonders. Or if that coffee was packed on top of other interesting stuff at some point. 🤨
"...The cocaine was stashed in an apparently legitimate coffee consignment. Reports quoting Brazil’s Federal Police and Federal Revenue Service indicate that packages holding the narcotic were found within sacks of coffee beans. The stated destination of the container was Turkey. ..."
https://brusselsmorning.com/702kg-cocaine-hidden-in-coffee-shipment-bound-for-antwerp/101759/
@wordshaper @toots Oooh, I did not know that trick on caffeine. 😬
@ai6yr Also, sorry, lol I know that feeling and it's not cool.
