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Jul 2013
5:51pm, 14 Jul 2013
14,086 posts
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Steady Edina
I thought that decaffinated coffee was worse for you.
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Jul 2013
6:00pm, 14 Jul 2013
26,150 posts
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Velociraptor
Worse as in what, SE? Worse than switching to wine after 5pm? 
(I think it's supposed to depend on how the caffeine is removed.)
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Jul 2013
6:13pm, 14 Jul 2013
3,730 posts
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Pestomum
not heard that. do explain?
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Jul 2013
6:15pm, 14 Jul 2013
10,055 posts
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Red Squirrel
Hopefully I've decanted it out of my system. Learnt my lesson - you can make coffee too strong. I think the big clue was how much agave nectar I had to pour in.
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Jul 2013
6:49pm, 14 Jul 2013
26,153 posts
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Velociraptor
Caffeine is sometimes (not always) removed from coffee using a solvent which is allegedly potentially harmful. The caffeine is removed before the beans are roasted and the roasting temperature is sufficient to evaporate off any traces of the solvent, so it's unlikely to be a problem 
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Jul 2013
6:59pm, 14 Jul 2013
3,738 posts
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Pestomum
I like "allegedly potentially" as a level of risk.
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Jul 2013
11:57am, 20 Jul 2013
61,967 posts
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Hanneke
Hmmmm... latter with home ground Lavazza beans
Been having coffees in Austria - passable
Italy - awesome
and
France - good
Also passed through Belgium, Luxemburg, and Germany but only had some coffee in Germany and it was of the dish/ditch water variety...
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Jul 2013
12:31pm, 20 Jul 2013
26,280 posts
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Velociraptor
Coffee in Italy seems to be just something special. I almost managed to get spoiled for anything else on a flying visit to Bergamo. Even the airport coffee was good enough to linger over.
Swiss coffee tends, on average, to be very good too.
My Nespresso machine is sick. I haven't decided whether to buy a new one or sell my remaining capsules. Probably the former, but I'll go for the cheapest machine this time.
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Jul 2013
12:45pm, 20 Jul 2013
14,214 posts
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Steady Edina
Just had my second cup my first I had in bed this morning
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Jul 2013
1:23pm, 20 Jul 2013
238 posts
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jacdaw
I thought you meant it was really good Vrap, and you was down with the kidz, when you said it was sick.
Isn't agave nectar just very expensive fructose syrup extracted from agave root in a very similar way to HFCS production? So, not only a bad thing, but an expensive bad thing?
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