[nmrm]

3 cups of espresso would be a fantastic amount of coffee. You'd actually have a medical condition of you drank that much espresso every day:

~64 mg caffeine / ounce in espresso

64 mg/ounce * 8 ounces * 3 = 1536 mg

From wikipedia: "Consumption of 1000–1500 mg per day is associated with a condition known as caffeinism."

[SEMW]

I imagine when most people say 'a cup of espresso' they're thinking of a demitasse of the stuff, not using '1 cup' in the unit-of-volume sense (which'd be an ~octuple espresso)

[jschulenklopper]

"Three cups of espresso" means "three times 25-30 ml fluid (1 ounce)", not "three large 8 ounce-cups that you fill with espresso-strength coffee". So, three espressi remains below 200 mg caffiene.

[jksmith]

Cut with a top shelf rum to counteract this condition. Mt Gay Black Barrel, Goslings, or Zaya to suggest a few.