First, this beebs report on why coffee is your partner in health, your muse and your burden (financially, if you're the coffee-to-go kinda person).
Coffee may cut the risk of dementia by blocking the damage cholesterol can inflict on the body, research suggests.The drink has already been linked to a lower risk of Alzheimer's Disease, and a study by a US team for the Journal of Neuroinflammation may explain why.
Caffeine: A User's Guide to Getting Optimally Wired by Chris is a must read if you are coffee fan like me.
I have an elaborate coffee routine that starts every morning with picking up the beans and grinding it (a burr-grinder is best, I use this grinder), making the espresso (this Cappuccino maker), frothing milk at the optimal pressure and temperature, adding the frothy milk to espresso slowly, finishing it off with an artistic attempt to create crop circles in the coffee cup with froth. This whole drill - and I enjoy it greatly - takes about 15 minutes. At the end of it, a good long sip is had and I am fully awake and heading to the smallest room in the house.
I have a somewhat less elaborate routine that involves pulverizing the beans in a blender-style grinder, dumping them into a steel mixing bowl, then adding hot water. Later, I pour the lumpy mixture through a funnel into a steel thermos. For filters, I use paper towels. The mix I drink is about 75% coffee and 25% milk (red-cap, vitamin D).