Often in the evening, I feel the need for a pick me up. My go to for this is a coffee. I pull a shot of espresso and make it into an americano for sipping. As a boost of energy, it works without fail. However, I pay for it with bad sleep. This was not an issue for me previously. These days, I am past that age where physical demands in the form of a workout require a good sleep the previous night.

For the past 2 weeks I shifted my caffeine of choice from coffee to black tea.

Do you know that feeling where in certain video games you go from a super uncontrolled but explosively fast car / weapon to one where you have far more fine grain control but is still decidedly superior than base.

That's what black tea feels like to coffee.

Buzz on.