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		brianpgordon on Dec 10, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Keurig 2.0 DRM Bypass Primarily because caffeine is extremely bitter and adding too much will ruin it. I tried to put like 500mg of caffeine powder in my cereal once and it was utterly disgusting. I got about 4 spoonfuls in before I couldn't take it anymore.

nyolfen on Dec 10, 2014 [–]

why wouldn't you just take caffeine pills man

brianpgordon on Dec 10, 2014 | [–]

It's much, much cheaper if you buy the powder. But yeah, I ended up buying gel capsules and making my own pills.

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