The Coffee Prescription

As your cortisol levels begin to subside during your body’s awakening process, following it up with a delicious light roast coffee will work to enhance your morning ritual while giving you the boost you need to start your day off right. Since light roast coffees have more caffeine than your darker roasts, they are the perfect morning companion for coffee lovers and caffeine connoisseurs in need of immediate energy.

As coffee beans continue to roast; they lose water and increase in volume. Dark roast beans will weigh less and be slightly larger. When the Light and Dark grounds are compared by volume, the light roast will be denser, weigh more, and contain more of the original caffeine from the original green coffee bean. That said, if you’re looking to wake up fast, go with the light roasts.

As you go about your busy day—behind a desk, climbing a ladder, or chasing the kids—the post-lunch energy crash becomes inevitable. A great Medium Roast Expresso about 30 minutes before the slump hits is a perfect way to keep that much-needed energy flowing and get you through the rest of your day.

Medium Roast Coffees’ unique taste comes directly from the artisan roasting process. As the beans continue to roast, they lose some of their innate floral flavors—often present in Light Roasts—resulting in a bold and balanced taste that boasts a medium amount of caffeine. This makes Medium Roast Coffee the perfect option for sustaining energy throughout the day without giving you the jitters.

After a hard day’s work, many coffee lovers crave another cup of greatness for the drive home. However, since the half-life of caffeine is 5-6 hours, drinking another caffeine-heavy cup at 5 p.m. may interfere with your sleep, since only half of the caffeine will be out of your system by 10 or 11 p.m. That said, a lovely Dark Roast Espresso that sustains all the elements of the perfect coffee bean can provide the right punch of energy without keeping you up at night.

When it comes to Dark Roast Coffee, the country of origin flavors are almost completely lost during the roasting process, giving it that very bold and smoky taste. The bolder, robust taste of a Dark Roast coffee is often associated with higher levels of caffeine, however, the taste of a Dark Roast coffee shouldn’t be used as the only indicator of a Dark Roast’s level of caffeine.