I started with the full recipe, with the butter and the coconut oil. Then tried it with the vanilla and chocolate powders, and cinnamon. I also tried adding the cocoa butter on some days. I used Truvia as a sweetener.

Then, my partner wanted to try it too. So, he went for the full mix, and then also just for the coffee with half and half (gasp!). With just the half and half, no sweetener

I’m 50 and he’s 53. We use a Vitamix. We each have 2-3 cups a morning.

So far here are my(our) results:

On its own, plain black, the Upgraded Bulletproof coffee we ordered is great tasting. I will continue to buy it. With just half and half it is also really tasty. No bitterness, no/low acid taste. Totally worth the money.

As for the recipe with all the added butter and oil, and/or with the powders, the coffee concoction definitely needs sweetener. I’m still trying to find/adjust the correct amounts of all the additives for taste. I think I added too much of the chocolate, didn’t like the cinnamon at all, and I can’t bring myself to add more than 3 tablespoons of the butter (for two cups).

After gamely trying what I prepared for him in the mornings, my partner prefers his coffee the old fashioned way, plain with half and half. I have to say, I prefer that taste as well, but, I will continue with the recipe provided with the butter. Why?

Well, my skin is SO much happier. All my life I’ve had extremely dry, and often itchy, skin. In the week and a half that I’ve been consuming the different variations of the coffee plus butter, my skin feels transformed. Can’t speak to the memory enhancement though.

I also tried Nuvigil for a week. I do suffer from excessive sleepiness, particularly in the car or at a desk, but this stuff didn’t help me. Didn’t help with concentration either. It did completely erase all appetite, which was very strange for me because I’m a hearty eater. I have stopped taking it because I don’t like the way it made me feel: it was like I was physically anxious, but not emotionally anxious, if that makes any sense at all.

BUT… how much of the actual coffee am I supposed to put into the coffee maker? I did take the beans and get them ground up, but I just have a standard 4 cup paper filter style coffee maker.

This morning I tried 1 tbsp coffee grinds, 4 cups water, 1 tsp mct, 2 tbsp butter and I thought it tasted pretty ‘weak’, but again I’m definitely not a coffee snob.

After lunch I tried 1 more tbsp coffee grinds, just 2 cups of water, 1 tsp mct, 2 tbsp butter and then blended in some ice in a ninja along with 1 tbsp choc powder (but want to try some choc whey powder – would that be ok?).

It was definitely stronger, but what is the typical coffee grind to water ratio?