All the decaf coffee I’ve tried has less flavor than normal. The soaking process to decaffeinate it presumably also removes some of the flavorful compounds. If I use 3 shots decaf it ends up tasting close to as flavorful as using 2 shots of normal.
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Rodeo@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
It will be stronger than a normal coffee, but it still won’t have any caffeine.
There is a distinction between flavor and caffeine content. Decaffeinating does change the flavor but that doesn’t mean you can’t make it strong.
Fermion@feddit.nl 5 months ago
gnate@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Decaf coffee (or tea) will still have more than zero caffeine. Allowable amounts vary between US and EU, but multiple repetitions of the process are needed to achieve either 97% or 99.9% caffeine free respectively.
A single pass through a decaffeination process can result in leaving 20% of the original caffeine content.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decaffeination