I usually like to have decaffinated coffee when I take it in the evening, otherwise the caffeine can make it harder to get to sleep. In recent weeks none of the supermarkets seem to have any decaf of any brand. I have an idea that the caffeine is extracted using compressed carbon dioxide, which itself was said to be hard to get a month or two back. So is that the explanation - does anyone know?
No idea but proper Walls Neapolitan ice cream tubs are like hens teeth in our local supermarkets ??
Lidl don't seem to have any Mulled Wine this year
I wouldn't have thought so.
Caffeine extraction using supercritical CO2 is almost closed cycle process so that they only need a bit of CO2 to make up for any losses.
More likely it is local difficulty with distribution. Random things do go short supply with empty shelves appearing here and there.
Tesco online seem to be showing all decaf products as available.
That's more to with it not being Summer. Supermarket freezers are now required for all the frozen Christmas goods. My local supermarket now has freezers full of turkeys.
Round here, only one of the three big supermarkets has had rinse aid in the past month or two, and then only one of the times I was in.
Plenty on Amazon.....£21 for 6 x 150g Kenco Rich.
poundland has no Walkers ready salted crisps...bummer
Its due to Brexit - there are now long delays delivering Walkers crisps from China!
This being a do-it-yourself group, couldn't you just buy the regular beans and then stir them around for a bit in a bucket of acetone?
Nick
Dunno about Lidl but Tesco and Asda each have mulled wine - but the alcohol content is only 5.5% compared with 8% last year (I still have a left-over bottle from last year) I know most of the alcohol is going to evaporate when you heat it but - come on now? 5.5%?
Nick
Ha Ha..... But seriously, there are loads of UK coffee roasters who would be very pleased to sell you decaf. Just get an Aeropress and you'll get great coffee whenever you want it. I'm still a fan though my son has recently switched to a Mokka pot.
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Not a shortage as such, just an annoyance. Years ago, bought son one of those silly Cadburys chocolate bar dispensers, with mini bars of chocolate, then refilled it yearly. That was OK until suddenly, Cadburys stopped making the refills.
Similarly, we always decorate the tree with Cadburys chocolate tree decorations, a mixture of squares and disks of solid chocolate. Not this year though, they don't seem to be available anywhere I have looked. Abstrads.
Didn't the duty due on the amount alcohol in wine change in the last budget?
I think it did. But I still don't know why they didn't go the whole hog and label it Spiced Grape Beer.
Nick
So what do they do with the co2 and the caf after its removed?? Brian
Waitrose had som last week, first time for a couple of months. No problem though, as Aldidl were well stocked and cheaper.
I agree that obviously needs to be topped up. Ideally with vodka I suppose. But most hand sanitiser (there's a lot of it about right now for some reason) seems to be largely ethyl alcohol so could be used if you were desperate as the spices in the mulling would surely disguise the flavour. Just make sure that there isn't any methyl alcohol in it as well as that isn't good for you.
Ah, thanks. I've rather given up on on-line shopping (given that it was impossible to get a delivery slot during the period last year when we all thought that it was dangerous to venture outside) so didn't think of checking.
IPA as in isopropanol or rubbing alcohol isn't much good for you internally either and a many gels have a fair proportion of that in too.
The ones with surfactants and antiseptics in might even be quite dangerous. I doubt if they ever considered people might drink them!
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