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Here's my current favorite IPA[^]. You'll note I picked a page that's quite critical of it. My best guess is that it's neither expensive enough nor sold in an upscale-enough store to please the snobs. It's bad enough I only drink single-malt (if scotch), and that taste preference was not by choice.
It taste like I had always imagined beer would taste when I was a kid. I was highly disappointed when I actually tasted the swill that mostly passed for beer in the US at that time. Then, quite by accident, I saw a package of "Ballentine India Pale Ale" and got it - and low and behold the promise was at long last kept! Plus, each bottle cap had a rebus puzzle on it - great fun a one's wits are slowly but surely dimmed.
Anyway, I give my favorite one fault: its quite strong, over 8%, and a single 12oz can, as shown, is effectively like drinking two cans of ordinary beer - but who could stop halfway?
Other beers I've liked: Guinness Stout, Gösser Stiftsbräu, Carlsberg Elephant. These latter two I supplied at my after-doctoral-thesis-defense party. One version of Dog Fish Head[^] was great, but I forgot which one - but it was strong.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Light roast can also have up to 4 times as much caffeine than dark roast.
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A little salt will take the edge off coffee as well. Be careful to not over do it though.
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I have always added a pinch of table salt to bitter coffee. Will need to try Star Anise for sure.
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Just keep in mind the difference, especially with the first brew on the anise: it takes some time whist salt (sugar, milk, etc.) are immediate.
Curious: what if you put the salt into the water before brewing?
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Never tried it.
To be clear, I ONLY drink light roasted coffee. If I am out at a restaurant, someone's home, etc. and they serve me bitter shite coffee, I put a pinch of salt in it, and stir it well; not perfect, but it helps a great deal.
modified 12-Apr-21 20:11pm.
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Actually, I'll keep it in mind - as it does happen and what can you do in a restaurant?
Fortunately, by far the majority of the outside coffee I drink is at my kids' place (only just having it again after a year). They have the same taste as I (not a surprise) so I do OK.
Note: caffeine is very soluble in hot water - comes out of coffee, tea very quickly so even a light brew should give you most of the appropriate side affects (light, within limits, of course).
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Another trick you can try is to just wet the grounds (same temperature as brewing) and let them soak for 30 seconds before continuing with brewing. This allows the release of CO2 from the grounds which is then converted to acid when dissolved in the brewed coffee. I use the pour-over method of brewing, so this is easy to do, but if using a drip coffee maker, it takes more effort.
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Although there may be a small amount of CO2 adsorbed on the coffee granules, it would never be a problem in coffee being brewed with (approximately) boiling water. Like all gasses, it's solubility is decreased with increasing temperature - and by the time water is near boiling it's been long gone. Water is also (temporarily) deoxygenated, too, at that temperature.
The amount of CO2 is pretty trivial to begin with - at least in terms of what you'd taste. In fact, subjective though it may be, the coffee that inspired the original post is more sour than, for example, seltzer. Which is brought up as a further example for you (or science experiment !). Have you noticed opening a war bottle of any carbonated beverage results in a lot of gas coming out of solution and frothing all over the place? The reduced pressure (from even more gas that has left solution) being released allows it to try to find a new equilibrium of dissolved gases for it's temperature and pressure - but COLD it hardly froths at all by comparison. Why not heat up a nice big cup of your favorite carbonated beverage and see how it tastes (even after cooling).
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Picking those types of chimes that, more or less, are never dissonant is clever but it gives me an interesting thought about understanding complexity.
Sometimes, visual complexity can be overwhelming - probably in no small part in that our vision is our most intensive information input method. Converting to audio, although not necessarily giving any explicit understanding of the complexity is an interesting mechanism to impart its depth.
Standardized is some manner, or maybe a few, may make this an interesting tool.
Which, this being CP, begs the question of how code would sound if its structure were represented audibly. Also, the frightening aspect of Q&A so represented - even those chimes can be forced into dissonance.
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Quote: how code would sound if its structure were represented audibly
A total cacophony, with powerful subsonic elements that would bring down nearby buildings.
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Video was displayed as "unavailable" and this particular PC doesn't have a VPN available on it to get around it.
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A quick Google for "Cage 4:33" should find a copy for you. 
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: how code would sound if its structure were represented audibly.
In my university days, the computer centre's CDC 3200 had a DAC from the top 3 bits of the accumulator hooked up to a speaker. Experienced operators could tell the progress of jobs by the sound. And of course certain Engineering students tried to abuse the facility....
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: Which, this being CP, begs the question of how code would sound if its structure were represented audibly
Which begs the question about going the other way: A sound-based programming language.
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Interesting to note that of the "drug spider webs", caffeine is on the extreme end of "irregularity".
Effect of psychoactive drugs on animals - Wikipedia
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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We had bright sunshine yesterday. Today I woke up to a light dusting of snow, which has gradually built up to what would be described as (in the south east of the UK) a blizzard. 
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Yes, we had a bright warm - ish - day yesterday. Wind was a little lazy, but it was a nice day.
Until it started to snow, that is. Of course, by then the washing on the line was nearly dry ... 
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No snow in Cambridge, but it's definitely brass monkeys here.
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It does look like it's concentrated in the south east, and the worst bit was right overhead here in Woking until about half an hour ago.
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