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'Sleepless nights will result': World's strongest coffee contains 200% of caffeine in normal blends

Mike Brown's intense caffeinated dark roast drink, named 'Death Wish Coffee', is blended from the strongest beans in the world and contains double the amount of caffeine of the average Starbucks coffee

An online coffee firm have invented what they claim is the world's strongest coffee - which contains 200 per cent more caffeine and comes with its own health warning.

Mike Brown's intense caffeinated dark roast drink, named 'Death Wish Coffee', is blended from the strongest beans in the world and contains double the amount of caffeine of the average Starbucks coffee.

His Death Wish Coffee beans are ground very fine for extra potency - and Mike even says the extreme brew is his most popular blend.

The rather threatening packaging on 'Death Wish Coffee' comes with a skull and crossbones, while a label warns that 'sleepless nights will result'.

Mike came up with the idea after owning and running a coffee company for the 6 years, in New York. However, one problem he frequently encountered was customers craving a strong coffee.
 
Mike said: 'All of the premium dark roast coffee on the market was not as caffeinated as the lighter roasts.
 
Customers would come in and say, 'Give me a cup of your strongest coffee.' and I would reply, 'We serve nothing but the best coffee here, but our strongest tasting coffee is not our most caffeinated coffee'.  A puzzled look would usually follow.'
 
He said: 'I made it my mission to find a coffee that is dark, rich and flavorful but also has high caffeine content. All while being grown organically fairly traded, and shade grown.

Death Wish Coffee is made from Robusta beans which contain 'nearly double the amount of caffeine' than the Arabica beans used by high-end roasters, according to experts.

 

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A single 12-ounce cup of coffee at Starbucks contains approximately 260 milligrams of caffeine according to EnergyFiend, a caffeine database. The same cup from Death Wish Coffee contains 520 milligrams, double the amount.

Mike added: 'Usually the lighter the roast, the more the caffeine. But most coffee drinkers prefer a darker roast.

'This is medium-roast so it has more flavor than other highly-caffeinated blends. We sell 13 different blends of coffee, and Death Wish is our most popular one.'