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I found the same thing with aeropress. I can drink coffee all day, and have the occasional Americano no problem, but twice had a shot from an aeropress over ice and it gave me awful anxiety attacks both times.

Interestingly, cold brew makes me a bit anxious but doesn't really satisfy the caffeine craving the way a traditional cup of coffee does.

YMMV I guess

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> Interestingly, cold brew makes me a bit anxious but doesn't really satisfy the caffeine craving the way a traditional cup of coffee does.

Same, it gives me all the physical anxiety of coffee without any of the mental benefits - I don't understand how it's taken such a large share of coffee drinkers by storm!

All other things being equal, immersion brewing, including aeropress, cold brew, French press, hario switch, etc., leads to a drink with more caffeine than other brewing methods.

Aeropress has much more in common with espresso than cold brew or French press, as the immersion step doesn't last very long (based on how it was made for me).

In fact, cold press is pretty much the only outlier here. Caffeine is highly soluble in water, and the low temperature is the only thing slowing the extraction process down in a cold brew. In all of the other examples, the caffeine is mostly (though admittedly not entirely) extracted before most of the flavors are.

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