Can You Tell How Much Caffeine Is In Canned Coffee?

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I'd really love your thoughts on this stuff - should caffeine listings be on every RTD coffee product? Did the results surprise you? Which canned or bottled product did I miss?

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[janklausa]

For those confused about the Korean pouches — they're sold in convenience stores there, with cups of ice available separately. The idea is that you buy a cup of ice _and_ the pouch (or maybe the ice comes free with the pouch? I forget.) and combine them yourself. 

The idea behind is that you can save quite a lot of shelf (and fridge!) space by not having to have each "drink" in a can/bottle.

[Maduc]

The fact we still don't require caffeine content on nutrition labels is wild to me. I wish I could tell how much I'd consume especially now after this video I know how dramatically it can vary. I love caffeine but I'm also sensitive enough to it that once it's past, say, 2pm I need to know how much I'm about to have.

[kubagornowicz]

Japanese coffee vending machines was something I really missed after a trip to Tokyo. Especially the fact, that they were heated - you can first warm your hands holding the can.

[lighttells]

Hi James, thank you for using our meter for testing the caffeine. The reagent-coffee-mixed sample is recommended to cover the whole white square area on the chip to get more precise result. For your reference.

[charizable]

9:16 Now that's my dream too.

I would love to see James taste all of the canned coffee in Japan.

[danstewartrunning]

You know the coffee is kicking in when James starts talking faster

[real_kdbanman]

If this doesn’t come with a taste test of each, I will be devastated.

EDIT: Tasting. No complaining. Devastated.

[Mertl.]

I’m an analytical chemist and one thing my lab does for pharmaceutical products is determining a release profile. Would be interesting to see the caffeine levels during different time points of an extraction

[Emily-fhen]

As someone who is extremely sensitive to caffeine and takes meds that interact with it I find it really important to know how much caffeine is in a drink. I wish it would be listed in large print by the nutrition label not hiding at the bottom in 5 point font

[notactuallymyrealname]

So interesting, thank you! I haven't been much of a canned coffee drinker because where I am in the US, the Stumptown cold brew is kind of the standard, and I drank one of those one day and I could hear colors. I'm happy to learn that I'm not the most caffeine-sensitive person in the state.

[agwasp]

There’s a certain beauty to watching a man unintentionally drink undiluted coffee ‘squash’

[eclairamisu]

In Germany we have a variety of canned coffee ever since Starbucks decided to sell them in supermarkets. Funnily enough almost every supermarket chain nowadays stocks their own brand of canned coffee and while they mostly taste quite tame compared to any kind of freshly brewed coffee, a lot of them aren't bad at all. Given the massive popularity of specialty coffee in Berlin, quite a few of the roasteries nowadays also have their own canned cold brew (or similar) in stock and there taste tends to be a lot more intense an puristic.

Overall I would love to see this series continue and James do a comparison of them.

[isocle]

I feel like it is a missed opportunity to not show us how the actual caffiene content compares to the contents on the label.

[BrettVano]

I agree! Caffeine content should be prominently featured on packaging! Thanks for your review.

[Doooshty]

Most things in the US have caffeine indicated on the label. Soda, energy drinks, canned coffee. It has the amount per serving and per bottle/can

[mac_mcleod]

This is a fantastic, "Project Farm" level video. We need more people like you guys doing indendent testing and publishing the facts to be informed consumers.

[aleksandrakrupina]

Taking Japanese coffee?!!! Yes please! I got hooked on canned coffee during my trip to Japan and it was so fun to taste all the different kinds. There is soooo much more variety there and I would love to see James go through them!

[rebeccawiens]

Maybe this is just a Canadian regulation, but all the caffeinated drinks I've seen come with strict labelling requirements. Even chain restaurants have to say how much caffeine is in their products. If you got a hold of some Canadian coffee products, I'd be really interested to see you do a test and compare the caffeine content to the labelled amount.

[surrealchemist]

We need like an Anthony Bourdain style James Hoffman travelogue in asia exploring the local coffee culture and then doing all the taste tests.

[kg-Whatthehelliseventhat]

9:27 James, please come to Japan. Last weekend my wife and I went to a coffee festival. It was great. We need you here. I try so share a bit of coffee when I home roast and there are many people who love coffee but do not yet understand the importance of ratio, grind size and other variables.
Much love from Kanazawa, Japan.