Your brain is a brat. This is not a clinical diagnosis but it is an accurate description of what happens when you attempt to reduce your caffeine intake and your brain decides to respond to this reasonable lifestyle decision by making you feel as though someone has quietly removed all the colour from the world…
The coffee maker gets all the credit. The coffee maker sits on the counter looking important, gets named after Italian regions and costs more than several items of furniture. Meanwhile, the cafetiere, the moka pot, the humble tea strainer and the improvised filter bag fashioned from a paper cone and a prayer have been quietly…
So you have decided to go decaf. Excellent decision. Your sleep will thank you, your blood pressure will thank you and, eventually, even your neck will thank you. But now you are standing in front of a bag of decaf coffee squinting at the small print wondering what on earth Swiss Water Process or CO2…
What Makes the Best Decaf Coffee Beans? It’s Not What You Think Decaf coffee often gets a bad rap. People expect thin, flat, uninspiring flavour, and too many products seem to deliver exactly that. But the truth is this: the reasons most decaf tastes disappointing are rooted in process, not caffeine. When every stage from…
Every year, someone publishes a roundup of the best decaf coffees and fills it with products that are mediocre, widely available in supermarkets and, in at least one case, tasted as though the beans had been decaffeinated using sadness. We have opinions about this. Strong ones. Possibly stronger than the coffee. We sell only decaf,…
There is a particular kind of bravery involved in walking into a supermarket, standing in front of the coffee aisle and attempting to find a decaf that will not make you feel like you are being punished for something. We know this because we have done it. Repeatedly. In the name of science, and also…
Organic. The word that divides the coffee aisle into people who check the label and people who think checking the label is what other people do. We are not here to judge either camp. We are here to tell you what organic decaf coffee actually means, what it costs you, what it gets you and…
Every morning you make a cup of something excellent, drink it, feel better about the world, and then throw the spent grounds in the bin as though they have done their job and are no longer your concern. They have not done their job. They have barely started. Used decaf coffee grounds are one of…
Your colleague has opinions about decaf. They involve chemicals, or the pointlessness of it, or something they read that one time. Your colleague has probably also at various points declared that fat is fine, that carbs are the real enemy, that you should be doing intermittent fasting and that the key to good sleep is…
Finding the best decaf coffee beans in the UK should not feel like an endurance test. Yet for years, decaf has had a reputation for being flat, bitter or tasting like it gave up halfway through the roasting process. The truth is not that decaf coffee is bad. It is that most decaf coffee is…