The Black Blood of the Earth

Click Here to Jump to the Latest Coffee News Updates (read below first the beginnings of where BBotE came from) Or skip my blather and go look at the goods! THE COLLEGE YEARS At some point, all of us start wondering how much coffee we can drink before our hearts explode. This typically happens when we are up, very late, in college with either the panic of a final the next day or have nothing particularly better to do than try to achieve acute caffiene poisoning. What do you mean you haven’t done this? Liar. Your letting yourself down and making Baby Jesus (ten time running All American Most Valuable Jesus) cry. My first foray into this arena involved a winter quarter introductory physics final exam. I had been gifted with a friend’s surplus espresso machine that I’d barely used, not being much of a coffee fan at that time. Also, all of us freshmen had received a gift box (sub-category: male) full of useful “male” things. One of these useful things was a packet with two No-Doze in it. I had six apartment mates and none of them had used anything other than condoms from their kits yet (as a…