How Do They Get the Caffeine out of Decaf Coffee Beans? Your Coffee Questions Answered

While the rest of you were taking the day off, Mental Floss debuted a new video series today called The Big Question. In its first episode, Craig Benzine explains how decaf coffee is made despite the difficulty inherent with the caffeine being part of coffee beans. Sadly, he never answers the bigger question of why anyone would ever drink decaf.

Seriously, decaf, you don’t even have the part of coffee that wakes people up.

(via Mental Floss)

Previously in coffee science

• Learn about the actual chemical effects of coffee on your body
• There’s an alarm clock that wakes you up by brewing coffee
• Keuring wants to put DRM on your coffee pods

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