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I’m working on cutting back because it’s getting more expensive and I’m definitely addicted. I’ve tried titrating to decaffeinated, but it is even more expensive and hard to find good decaffeinated coffee.
Aeropress most days, because I like the paper filter. Occasionally French Press, especially cold brew or light roasts that can use the extra robustness. Automatic pour over occasionally, if there’s multiple people. Aeropress for 3 is too much.
I’ll skip it if I can’t get something palatable but I will be a slow person, probably with a headache.
I find that I can water down coffee pretty substantially after it's brewed, without changing the flavor significantly (although it is weaker obviously)
It means if I'm ever wanting reduced caffeine intake, it's easier to do that than decaffeinated coffee.
Works much better when I'm making any kind of coffee that uses milk, but it does work black as well.
How do you go about watering it down? Just pour room temp water into the brew?
Yup. More water seems to affect the brewing a lot more than the final product, so once I have it brewed the way I want, it's fine to water it.
First time I did it, I went "well that makes sense I guess, this cup is already like 99% water, everything I did brewing it was just to change the 1%, and that's done".