The most original purpose of coffee is to refresh the mind. Whether it's an espresso that you drink and go, the ever-present American-style drip coffee pot in the office, or even a pour-over single-origin coffee that you specifically go to a coffee bean shop for, it all has a refreshing function. It's just that everyone chooses the appropriate coffee based on different scenarios, functions, and taste requirements.
So, with so many types of coffee, which one is the most refreshing to drink?
So the most refreshing coffee must be the one with a relatively high caffeine content. The final caffeine content in coffee mainly depends on the caffeine content of the coffee beans and the coffee-making method. Therefore, Front Street will discuss it in these two steps.
So, if you want to get more caffeine, you should choose Robusta, and if you don't want to consume too much caffeine, choose Arabica coffee beans. Some friends have also heard of natural low-caffeine coffee. Here Front Street briefly explains that natural low-caffeine coffee also belongs to the Arabica species, with caffeine at 1/2 of ordinary Arabica, about 0.6%. For some friends who are intolerant to caffeine, it is still relatively high. If you want to drink coffee but don't want to consume caffeine, you can choose artificially decaffeinated coffee, which contains almost no caffeine.
The caffeine content indicated on beverages is usually "Xmg/100ml". It is mainly based on volume, but from a barista's perspective, it is more appropriate to use 1 cup or the actual amount of coffee powder used as the unit of measurement. Take espresso as an example: whether making a latte or an Americano, as long as the same amount of espresso is used as the base, their caffeine content is the same.
Below, Front Street provides some common coffee drinks' caffeine content for reference: (Note: The coffee beans are all Arabica; cold brew and ice drip coffee are affected by extraction time, here based on ice drip 8 hours and cold brew 12 hours)
Pour-over coffee (20g powder/260ml coffee) about 120mg;
Instant coffee (one bag) about 50mg.
Actually, sometimes coffee doesn't have to be drunk by yourself to be refreshing. According to verification by the Front Street editorial department, the refreshing effect of coffee being drunk by a computer is faster and stronger than drinking it yourself. If you don't believe it, you can try it.
The above content is compiled by CoffeeHunters, a coffee news website.
