Decaff Coffee?

[Uncle Al]

Glad we don't serve that here

Uncle Al

[crfriend]

Coffee, like cigarettes, to me is a drugs-delivery mechanism. True enough, depending one how one roasts and brews it, it may have some taste or flavour to it, but its primary function remains the same.

Tea, on the other hand is a properly civilised drink.

The last time I took an inventory here, there wasn't so much as a microgram of decaf anything here, save plain old ice-water, which has its place. (I'm a big fan of water, even if fish do unspeakable things in it.)

[Kirbstone]

Depends on the year/vintage. We're well into the first tapfuls of Chateau Holm Wood 2013 here. It's a little young still, but very cold as it comes from a limestone aquifer 71 meters down, gets demineralised and runs through a UV filter, then when decanted tastes not half bad.

The late Alastair Cooke in his 'letter from America' on the BBC radio did a treatise on the various forms of water available in the Big Apple, where he lived. Having gone through the various mineral and bottled offerings he launched into a list of the plethora of chemicals put into the Municipal supply and why, eventually coming to the conclusion that the best water available came straight out of the tap/faucet.

T.

[Taj]

If you don't live in Colorado you're likely drinking downstream.

[skirted_in_SF]

If you don't live in Colorado you're likely drinking downstream.

You're still downstream of all the beasties in the woods. Not to mention the fish.

[Lawrence de Grande]

I agree with Paul Harvey, (Paul Harvey News). Decaf coffee is like a wet kiss right in the middle of your forehead, it doesn't do anything for you.

[Sinned]

But then, not liking the taste of the old Typhoo or PG Tips or whatever is your poison then the options become more limited. I really do like some of the herbal teas such as Peppermint or Camomile or Raspberry etc. Also looking at the table of contents there are a lot more natural ingredients and less of the E numbers. Failing that soda of various flavours or a milk shake ( I don't like the aftertaste of plain milk ). I don't like most spirits either so ( sacrilege to some of you ) whiskey is out of the question too ( as is gin, brandy, cognac, rum etc ). As a diabetic my alcohol intake should be very low anyway so I concluded years ago that alcohol for me was just not meant to be. Not really that keen on most coffees decaff or not.

[Kirbstone]

In getting rid of the caffeine they load decaff with a dose of other unmentionable substances to try to emulate the taste. These are to be ingested with caution and not in any appreciable quantities, I would counsel.

It's a bit like non-alcoholic beers....fails on all counts.

T.

[Jack Williams]

Can't understand why people drink decaffinated "coffee".
Imagine a cigarette with no nicotine, or a joint with no THC...
Like the no alcohol beer, what's the point?

[Milfmog]

Can't understand why people drink decaffinated "coffee".
Imagine a cigarette with no nicotine, or a joint with no THC...
Like the no alcohol beer, what's the point?

I tend to agree about the coffee, Jack. However, a pub near here has "Drivers Gin" and "Drivers Vodka", both of which are actually tap water served from labelled bottles and mixed with orange, lime, tonic... so that drivers can give the impression that they are having a drink while staying clear of the law.

There's no need for that these days as no one is likely to disapprove of people not drinking but apparently they were big sellers back in the seventies and the landlord of the pub does not like change... (He still uses dimpled beer mugs).

Have fun,


Ian.

[couyalair]

Like the no alcohol beer, what's the point?

When you're hot and thirty, it goes down very well. Not quite sure what they put in it, but it can't be worse than all those horrible sugary/sachariny sodas you see everywhere.
It's a matter of taste, of course, and of where it is made. I never liked the alcohol-free beer they sold in France, but here in Spain, the "0,0% beer" tastes almost as good as the original 5,4%, and they sell a lot of it.

Martin

[skirtyscot]

Dimpled beer mugs, what happened to them? I liked them much more than the now-ubiquitous straight ones.

[Jack Williams]

Ah yes, I do see the point, it does quench the thirst, and can taste good if they've done it right. Looks better if the others are having real ones.
Of course if there is a good bus service that solves it too.
It's normal too these days, at least here, to take turns for one of the company to be the "sober driver" who stays "under the limit" as it were.

[Kirbstone]

In my case the 'lads' just bundle me onto the cart outside the pub, throw the reins at me oul' nag and, knowing the way home himself, he gets me home to me own front door without fail.
A good shower o' rain helps to wake me up an' all!.

T.

[Jack Williams]

Those were the daze!