Recently Caffeinated Posts

• Cup of Brown Joy - Elemental
  Tea inspires some seriously strange sentiments at times, but seldom much stranger than this…
• Back when the commercials sucked worse than the coffee…
  Of course, if he tried this today, “Harvey” would be in the emergency room with 3rd degree hot coffee burns to the groin while being served his divorce papers… On the other hand, if the coffee was so bad that instant was an improvement, maybe ol’ Harv had a …
• Joffrey’s “Jamaican Me Crazy” Coffee
  Awhile back, Joffery’s Coffee and Tea was looking for bloggers interested in “beta testing” one of their coffees. Since I’m an unrepentant coffee blogger from way back, I naturally signed up. Their sign up process asked whether I normally drank flavored or unflavored coffees (unflavored), and whether I preferred pre-ground …
• Tasting Starbucks’ Pike Place Roast
  I had the chance to try Starbucks’ new “Pike Place Roast” tonight. Not bad. And considering that I’ve seldom ever had a cup of brewed coffee at Starbucks that was more than marginally drinkable, that’s a tremendous improvement. Starbucks press release has this to say about Pike Place Roast: Smooth, Welcoming Taste This …
• Caffeine blocks cholesterol, Alzheimers
  The BBC reports that a new study in the Journal of Neuroinflammation indicates that caffeine helps prevent high levels of cholesterol from causing dangerous substances to leak across the blood-brain barrier. “Caffeine appears to block several of the disruptive effects of cholesterol that make the blood-brain barrier leaky,” said Dr Jonathan …