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>Drip coffee has even more than espresso [in typical serving sizes]. FTFY. You need 4 shots of espresso to match the caffeine in 16oz of drip coffee. This doe
by kohtatsu 7y ago
>Drip coffee has even more than espresso [in typical serving sizes].
FTFY.
You need 4 shots of espresso to match the caffeine in 16oz of drip coffee. This does depend on roast; darker roasts have less.
A 16oz or 20oz latte at Starbucks will have 2 shots, i.e. medium roast drip is double, and even a standard 16oz americano at Starbucks only has 3 shots; drip still has 33% more.
Flat Whites are trickier, because despite having an extra shot over lattes (3 in 16oz/20oz), the shots are ristretto (less water), which extract less caffeine.
- cowgoesmo0 7y ago> This does depend on roast; darker roasts have less. While this is technically true, it's quite misleading because coffee measurements are typically done by weight. Caffeine content between roast levels only differ meaningfully when measuring by volume instead of weight. Coffee beans swell as they are roasted meaning darker roasts are less dense.
- kohtatsu 7y agoFWIW it does impact coffee at Starbucks, at least in Canada. (Nutrition Information linked from starbucks.ca) https://globalassets.starbucks.com/assets/94fbcc2ab1e24359850fa1870fc988bc.pdf https://globalassets.starbucks.com/assets/94fbcc2ab1e2435985... A 16oz cup of Dark, Medium and Blonde is listed as 260mg, 310mg, and 360mg respectively.
- drcharris 7y agoFor those interested, Starbucks publishes caffeine content of all their drinks, which makes a nice baseline for comparison. A 'tall' filter coffee, which IIRC is 16oz in the US, is 229mg, about equivalent to 3 single espresso shots (page 4 of the link below). https://globalassets.starbucks.com/assets/E3DA4F2E01A148DD88D61BC756C5A223.pdf https://globalassets.starbucks.com/assets/E3DA4F2E01A148DD88...
- kohtatsu 7y agoShort, Tall, Grande, Venti => 8oz, 12oz, 16oz, 20oz respectively. 16oz of drip is listed as 308mg.