I count my coffee consumption in Espressi, and it's usually two at work (one at around 9am, one after lunch at 1pm). Interestingly, that shifts in home-office day to 8am, 11am, and then I'm tempted to do third one after lunch - which usually turns out to be one too many.
I've even gone for weeks (Lent 2023) without any caffeine, and boy does that do wonders to the sleep quality. Alas, I like the ritual and taste of coffee too much and have yet to find good decaf beans (and then convince my wife to go decaf at home as well).
Coffee is wonderful and I love it. My all day affair with a cup has become a realization that I like "hot drink". I've been having matcha tea instead and it's been great.
For more years than I can count I was a regular 4 cup a day coffee guy, 2-3 in the AM, 1-2 in the PM. The latter was usually at a coffee shop, which was an excuse to get out of the house to go work somewhere else more than anything else. That stopped in spring 2020 due to all the coffee shops closing the sitting areas, and even though I could have made more coffee at home, I decided to use it as an opportunity to reboot my relationship to it. Went manual and single-cup with the Aeropress and now have a 2-cup/10 AM cut-off and it’s been great for, as you write here, making the coffee experience more sacred, but also hard to argue with the more sustained energy levels and improved sleep.
I resonate with that completely. I do love working at a coffee shop! Reducing to one cup a day was tough at first but now I'm full tilt. I just have tea in the p.m. now.
I had to kick the fully loaded stuff altogether. It was inducing anxiety and giving me the jitters, and that was just one daily cup in the early AM. Only drink decaffeinated now, and not as often.
I found that only using whole bean and hand grinding using a small device made it less likely I'd go in for more than one a day.
I count my coffee consumption in Espressi, and it's usually two at work (one at around 9am, one after lunch at 1pm). Interestingly, that shifts in home-office day to 8am, 11am, and then I'm tempted to do third one after lunch - which usually turns out to be one too many.
I've even gone for weeks (Lent 2023) without any caffeine, and boy does that do wonders to the sleep quality. Alas, I like the ritual and taste of coffee too much and have yet to find good decaf beans (and then convince my wife to go decaf at home as well).
Coffee is wonderful and I love it. My all day affair with a cup has become a realization that I like "hot drink". I've been having matcha tea instead and it's been great.
For more years than I can count I was a regular 4 cup a day coffee guy, 2-3 in the AM, 1-2 in the PM. The latter was usually at a coffee shop, which was an excuse to get out of the house to go work somewhere else more than anything else. That stopped in spring 2020 due to all the coffee shops closing the sitting areas, and even though I could have made more coffee at home, I decided to use it as an opportunity to reboot my relationship to it. Went manual and single-cup with the Aeropress and now have a 2-cup/10 AM cut-off and it’s been great for, as you write here, making the coffee experience more sacred, but also hard to argue with the more sustained energy levels and improved sleep.
I resonate with that completely. I do love working at a coffee shop! Reducing to one cup a day was tough at first but now I'm full tilt. I just have tea in the p.m. now.
I had to kick the fully loaded stuff altogether. It was inducing anxiety and giving me the jitters, and that was just one daily cup in the early AM. Only drink decaffeinated now, and not as often.
I found that only using whole bean and hand grinding using a small device made it less likely I'd go in for more than one a day.
I haven't picked up hand grinding yet...soon.