Death Wish Coffee Company

Summer is over, and autumn is full of guilty pleasures, like all the seasonal coffee drinks you can make using your favorite coffee with high caffeine . Putting a seasonal twist on your homemade coffee might actually help save your dignity. You wouldn’t be caught dead waiting in line for one of those artificially sweet and syrupy drinks at your local coffee shop. Or would you? You know the drinks. They’re dangerous—like, romance-novel-love-triangle dangerous. Accept It—You Have a Dark Side Every romance novel protagonist has a dark side or an unexpected secret. For all intents and purposes, you’re a little curious to explore that secret every once in a while. But your everyday, USDA Certified Organic and Fair Trade brew is the coffee with a dark side. You have to choose between sticking to your reliable coffee or ordering the unexplainably attractive new drink on the block. Are you lost now? Did we take the analogy too far? The Temptation Is Real Now that the romance nov...

Get ready for another exciting time of year. Fall is on the horizon, the sun is setting earlier and children are going back to school. You read that right. While it’s nice to know you can ease your mind while the kids are at school, other times can quickly turn into frenzied, frantic acts of suppressing your frustration and scrambling through it all. What can you rely on in these trying times? Coffee. There’s nothing like strong coffee to help you navigate the choppy waters that are the back-to-school season. Fueling Hectic Mornings Mornings are bad enough as it is, even if they do feature the highlight of your whole day—a tasty mug full of coffee. Don’t make the mistake of telling yourself you’ll have a cup later or stop somewhere on your way to work. First of all, later is way too far away. Secondly, you need that cup of coffee to help you get through the morning. There’s plenty to deal with, and you don’t want waiting in line at the drive-thru to be one of those things....

Some foods just taste better with a fresh cup of strong coffee. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert and snacks—coffee is the secret weapon that can take any eating experience to the next level. It’s so true that people have dunked food into coffee since practically the beginning of time. It’s like the liquid equivalent to the Hand of Midas—it just turns some foods into pure gold, people. All over the world, coffee-drinkers dunk and soak foods in coffee to create delicious flavor combinations. The real question is, are you using the best coffee dunking technique? From classic treats to unexpected delicacies, there’s a proper way to dip your favorite foods into a cup of joe. Biscotti Biscotti are twice-baked cookies with a perfect dunking shape. They are excellent options, even for the daintiest nibblers. Before biscotti became the delicious dunking heroes they are today, they were more like a sort of hold-you-over, hard, bready thing for Roman soldiers to eat. You can en...

If you had a good childhood, you were introduced to coffee pretty early in your life. Maybe you were somewhere between 15 or 18, but regardless of your age in months, it was a great start.   In all seriousness, don’t give a baby coffee. That just makes you a bad human.   People might start drinking coffee in their teens, getting a membership to chain coffee joint for blended coffee drinks. Yet, the true coffee drinkers—the mother functioners, one might say—experienced that first sip sentiment with the oil of the gods.   That’s right. They nicked a sip of their dad’s plain ol’ cup of joe right from under his nose. It was the beginning of a beautiful relationship that may have become more during different phases in life, an essential part of growing up.   After School and Into Life   Once you’ve made it past high school, the world is your oyster.   That’s probably a lie, but you can just leave those hopes and dreams intact for now and focus on so...

Coffee with cream might get a lot of heat from coffee connoisseurs, but cream and coffee? Now, that’s an intriguing idea, and the concept has a name— affogato al caffe . When you want a little something sweet and reasonably caffeinated, this Italian treat may hit the spot.   That’s right. As is the case with many coffee- and espresso-based indulgences, affogato al caffe comes from Italy. While Italian coffee-drinkers see American-style coffee as muddy water, you can’t hate on them for being coffee snobs. Okay, you can, but you’ve got to appreciate their tenacity.   What Exactly is an  Affogato al Caffe ?   Italians have introduced the world to many delicious things like Neapolitan pizza, cannoli and authentic macaroni. They also produce world-class wines, cheeses and olive oils. Despite all that, the universally loved Italian exports may be espresso and gelato. A melding of the two? Bellisima .   Affogato al caffe —or affogato for us uncultured Am...

Thanks to one glorious, flavorful brew, people are just a little bit hooked on caffeine (here’s looking at you, coffee). Caffeine naturally affects the body’s metabolism and nervous system. Most people know it best for its jolt of energy in the morning. Some folks eat it, some drink it—and who’s to say one is better than the other? People who drink coffee. That’s who. But if you do need a run-down on the caffeine content in some other delicious treats, you’re in the right place. Taking a look at this list will be like dipping your toes into the coffee pot. To test the temperature, obviously. Isn’t that how everyone does it? Chocolate 12 to 20 mg per 1 ounce Unless you’re eating a bar of 100% dark chocolate, the caffeine content from cocoa is probably not going to interfere with your bedtime routine. Plus, nobody should ever be discouraged from eating chocolate regardless of the time of day—chocolate muffins and coffee with high caffeine make a perfect morning pair. Ice...

WARNING: This coffee story could cause many corporate office workers to spend countless hours researching beetles and birds. Is that a waste of time? Just stick with us, and then you can decide. Whether you knew it or not, coffee is under constant threat from a really, really stupidly small beetle. Like, really small. The borer beetle is the main antagonist of our fictional story. And our hero: the yellow warbler—the bird that helps save coffee farms from borer beetle invasions in real life. Facts, people. Hold on to your mug handles, folks—if you don’t think you need strong coffee to pay attention to this story, you’re going to need it for all your post-story research. Part 1: A Short Life She felt like she was the last coffee berry borer beetle on the farm. She needed to leave her home berry to find another, almost identical coffee berry where she could drill a hole, lay her eggs and start another infestation—effectively continuing the destruction of the coffee crop. Yo...