This is a not-enough-coffee day.
I'm on my second cup of vacuum pot coffee. A vacuum pot is not a common way of making coffee in the US anymore, although in 1910-1970's (probably) they were a known way of making good coffee, better than the automatic drip which supplanted them in US kitchens.
We have an electric vacuum pot because we're a little lazy about trying to get the temperatures right, and right now we have fresh beans from the Board Game Cafe downtown. (Sometimes Richard roasts beans, and then we have really fresh coffee.)
We also have a Nespresso Vertuo for in-between coffee pots -- for example, later in the afternoon. We prefer this to the ubiquitous Keurig brewer, which is impossible to clean properly and eventually yields a bitter coffee.
Sometimes we use a press pot, for good stout coffee, or a Chemex, for well-filtered coffee. Or a moka pot, for the closest you can get to real espresso without a machine.
We drink a lot of coffee here -- I may drink over the daily limit of coffee. But if I quit drinking it, I would get the worst caffeine withdrawal -- pounding headache and grogginess.
Besides, I like the taste. I like the coffeehouse culture and the fancy pot. I like espresso with a twist of lemon (or better, with a dash of sambuca). I like the coffee jokes.
Coffee, good or no, is a part of my life.
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