mindless_fool wrote:Car-puccino: A car that runs on coffee!

Damn, I had thought I'd be the first Guess I'm not fast enough. A slightly more detailed desciption is provided here. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...-lane.html

And yes, it will run off spent pucks as the article is stating they "will use waste coffee grounds, collected from a branch of Costa Coffee, to power their vehicle"

You'll need a few though, 56 espressos to the mile

And the British Government is puzzling out how to tax them for it

This morning I was dropping the dog off for a bath after the many rainy days in Montreal and I had a coffee near the groomers.
Saw this on the table.

http://www.teabeancoffee.com/index.html

Must have been invented by a Behmor owner with low voltage in the house roasting in the garage in the winter. But I am curious to know if anyone has tasted this.

BruceB wrote:And yes, it will run off spent pucks as the article is stating they "will use waste coffee grounds, collected from a branch of Costa Coffee, to power their vehicle"

Oh yeah, you can make a 4-stroke engine run on just about anything, vegetable oil, compost, even herbs - Mussolini made the trains run on thyme.

Bob_McBob wrote: Reading around, it supposedly tastes nutty, but not much like actual coffee. Lots of references on Barista Exchange, nothing positive. "It tasted like grassy cheese puffs."

Everything that I've read about it is getting all of the caffeine out of the bean, and that it tastes somewhere between 'crappy' and 'it doesn't suck too bad'.
I'm not here for the caffeine. If this were in the pursuit of caffeine, I'd be buying diet pills. I'm here for the taste of coffee (as well as the feel and the texture, etc.).
If I ever find a wonderful de-caf* I can source locally, that's going to end up being sixty percent of my espresso consumption.



*Presently, all I can get my hands on are decent, but nearly unremarkable. Not bad, but I want something that stands up and dances...

I looked into White Coffee a while ago after reading a reference to it on CoffeeGeek here and apparently it has a small following not only for the increased caffeine but also for the taste. I do believe that you need a special grinder or otherwise need to be careful not to damage your existing grinder on these beans.

I also learned from Wikipedia that in Malaysia, Ipoh White Coffee refers to roasting it in just margarine instead of margarine and sugar resulting in a lighter looking roasted bean.

I haven't had the opportunity to try any form of White Coffee.

Happy Belated St. Patrick's Day. (www.freakingnews.com)

Le Whif (snortable coffee).

how about this: