Honest head-to-head comparisons of the alternatives worth trying.
There’s a question hiding inside a lot of the emails we get, and it isn’t usually asked directly: which coffee alternative tastes good without me having to s...
When the weather turns, the coffee-alternative question changes with it. The chicory brew you loved hot in January can taste thin and sad poured over ice in ...
Most coffee-alternative guides assume you drink your cup long and milky. But there’s a specific reader we hear from less often and serve worse: the one who o...
There’s a specific frustration we hear constantly from readers leaving coffee: they own a Keurig, they don’t want to abandon it, and the pod aisle is almost ...
There’s a particular reader we think about a lot: someone who has decided to get off coffee but who is never, realistically, going to stand at the stove with...
We get a particular kind of email more than any other: someone has decided to quit coffee, they want to start tonight, and they don’t want to wait two days f...
Two roots keep showing up at the top of every “what can I drink instead of coffee” list: chicory and dandelion. They look almost identical in the mug — dark,...
Every May we get a wave of the same email: it is warming up, the reader has happily given up coffee, and now they want a cold-brew version of whatever they h...
Every few weeks a reader emails us some version of the same question: “I’m trying to quit coffee — should I get Teeccino or Dandy Blend?” Both names come up ...
Four Sigmatic has been around long enough that it’s no longer the underdog. When we started covering mushroom coffee, Four Sigmatic was the brand readers had...
We get this question a lot: is mushroom coffee actually better than regular coffee, or is it a trend with good marketing? The answer, like a lot of things, i...
If you’ve landed here, you’ve probably already figured out that “caffeine-free” is a bigger tent than it sounds. It includes the herbal blends that try to ta...
Somewhere in year two of drinking herbal coffee daily, it stops being a substitute and starts being the thing itself. You stop comparing it to coffee. You st...
Chicory coffee is one of those drinks that feels new to a lot of Americans and is, in fact, two centuries old. It was the workaround during the Continental B...
Somewhere between the third LinkedIn post about “brain fog” and the fourth Instagram ad for adaptogens, most of us have heard the pitch for mushroom coffee. ...