Friday, October 15, 2010

CUTTING THE CAFFEINE, Not the flavor

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Picture: Blogger before morning coffee.
Okay, seriously, this little guy is a Virginia Opossum photographed by David Arbour for the U.S. Forest Service.

Coffee, we've been told, is good for the liver but bad for the ticker due to the caffeine. On that basis, cutting back on the caffeine may be well advised for some. I found that flavor tends to suffer from the decaf process and, unless it's Swiss Water Processed, decaf can just present another set of problems. We don't want to go totally decaf. So, after some experimentation, we've found a half-caf combo that works for me.  Using Peet's Coffee and Tea coffees, here's our solution. Once a week, we prepare a batch of our own special "house blend".  The proportions follow. When we want to have coffee,  I make single cups using a cone.