Welcome to the age of flavored coffee. Did you ever think back when you were a small bambino that the old coffee pots would practically be replaced by lattes and cappuccinos? Okay, this would obviously depend on how old you are. Being a 90s generation guy myself, I sure enough saw the storm of flavored coffee and Starbucks. How could anyone lose it? As a matter fact, I never even tried a coffee drink until they became all the craze. I grew up watching my parents swallow down drip coffee every morning. That did not look acceptable to me. However, these days coffee has definitely taken many new turns. With coffee houses galore on every street corner, you have quite the choice of caffeinated beverages to choose from.
On the other hand, I understood later in life that decaf flavored coffee is no longer a obfuscated word in the coffee world. Well... not at least for our gourmet beans. We pay the extra money to make sure our decaf coffees are treated gently, leaving a majority of the bean flavoring compounds untouched. You've got options here. You can go with our traditional high grade coffee decafs (labeled simply as Decaf) that have been specially treated with a water-steam pressure to strip away chemical solvent or our 100% chemical free processed decafs (labeled as Swiss Water or Organic).
We all have own very own specific way of enjoying a cup of coffee and most of us don't really appreciate the advice however, flavored coffee has extraordinary aromas, which may be lost if not drank the right way. Even should these factors increase the amount of caffeine, your decaf flavored coffee will still have far less than the caffeine per cup in regular coffee. It will even have less caffeine than some 1-ounce servings of chocolate.
At the end of the day, flavored coffee is one and the same with gourmet coffee and is the one I prefer the most. In actual fact, gourmet coffee is the result of sprinkling special aromatic oils on the coffee beans while these are roasted. These oils are usually made out of natural ingredients, which improve greatly the aroma of the coffee. When chemical oils are added to the coffee, the taste of the coffee suffers to the highest degree.