Since the majority of Indonesians are having their fasting month, coffee shops in some places don’t open before 4PM even sometimes won’t open until 6 PM. This forced me to rely on low quality coffee, especially those in chain coffee shops. Since I needed a caffeine fix, I had no choice but to buy it from them. I also ran out of beans in my pantry and there’s no coffee nor any caffeine pills. I ended up coming to them a couple of times because their place is convenient to work from and I’d get a caffeine fix. During the first day, I started seeing how it affects my sleep, the next day, I feel sluggish and my body aches. Then, the next day, I felt brain dead. This never happens when I drink coffee from cafes or even brewing my own coffee.

A clean cup of caffeine should make one feel more energized. That wasn’t the case with the coffee I was drinking. Instead of feeling energized and alert, I felt sluggish and weak. All I wanted was to just lay down and do nothing. The brain fog was the worst and I have never felt that stupid. Until yesterday, I decided to start brewing my own coffee.

There is no crash nor feeling like you just been hit by a truck. Even when I brew my own coffee, I can sleep just fine and I can drink as much as I’d like without feeling all the negative side of the crash. But with that coffee, it was really bad. I got sick the third day consuming them and that’s when I knew something was wrong.

You might think that after testing out so much coffee out there, I’d learn. It turns out, I didn’t and because I was forced due to the situation, I tortured myself just to have that caffeine fix. But if there’s one thing that I have to emphasize, especially when you look for more productivity in life, stick with a quality coffee, if by chance you don’t have the access to, it’s better to quit until you can find the good ones.

Yesterday, when I went shopping with my mom I got an easy drip coffee from Kapal Api. They are store bought coffee that tries to sell a premium product. I got one Flores Manggarai blend. It’s served in a v60 drip bag that once I wrote that it’s going to be the future of commercial coffee. The Future of Commercial Coffee : V60 Like Dripper Kapal Api Drip Luwak Blend. Since that review, the following months I keep seeing coffee served in a drip bag.

The coffee itself has citrus and mint aftertaste. The body is quite light and the aroma has a light jasmine fragrance. It was the first good coffee I had in a while in comparison to the previous coffee. I enjoyed drinking that and had to survive from that before my beans arrived at my door.