A mad scientist in the Bay Area named Phillip Broughton has concocted a form of coffee with FORTY TIMES the caffeine of a regular cup of joe.

Called "Black Blood of the Earth" (the creator has a scientist's knack for nomenclature), the super-concentrated stuff was born out of Broughton's conflicting love of caffeine but distaste for coffee's bitterness (plus he's diabetic)--to avoid bringing out any of the beans' acid, he went for a 48- to 96-hour long cold vacuum extraction method. And while it tasted good, it also happened to have an unbelievable amount of caffeine!

Broughton admits to the SF Weekly , though, that the "40x" label is a "back-of-the-envelope calculation," since "the attempt to get an empirical measurement resulted in breaking a gas chromatograph by detector saturation and subsequent loss of lab privileges." Sounds like the man knows what he's doing ... kind of.

Recommended drinking methods all involve treating the BBotE like what it is--a dangerously concentrated caffeine bomb that deserves your respect unless you want your heart to explode--but that doesn't mean you can't have fun with it! (Or does it?) Broughton has a bunch of cocktail recipes on his site (he claims that 3:1 BBotE to vodka is "strangely sweet, definitely in the chocolate spectrum"), which we're not really sure about. But they couldn't possibly be worse than the godawful sweet-tart gut bomb that is the Vodka Red Bull.

Broughton makes about 6L per day, max, so availability is limited, but his sweet, sweet nectar is all for sale on his company site, Funranium Labs .

Don't worry, we've already ordered some to taste asap.

[Funranium Labs via SF Weekly ]