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THIS IS SO WHAT I NEED! F**K A DOUBLE ESPRESSO! COFFEE SHOP IN BROOKLYN OFFERS A 10 SHOT CUP!

A double espresso is for wimps at one Brooklyn coffee shop that's serving up a cuppa joe with a 10-shot jolt.
"It's 20 ounces of just thunder," said Tony Fisher, owner of The Pulp & The Bean in Crown Heights.

"One giant cup of jet fuel."

The 20-ounce drink, which went on sale Tuesday, is dubbed the Dieci, the Italian word for 10, but a sign outside brags it's "coffee porn in a cup."

At least one doctor says it may not be healthy; still, by afternoon, the shop had sold 16 cups to the curious - at $8 a pop.

"It's never been done before," Fisher said. "It just dawned on me that people really love espresso, so why not just give them a cup full of espresso?"

He drinks 10 cups a day of regular coffee yet couldn't quite make it through a full cup of his concoction in one sitting.

"I drank a third of it. I'm still spinning," he said.

"We're aiming for the on-the-go crowd - say a student who has an exam and really needs to wake up and get their act together."

Sean Anderson, 40, of Flushing, Queens, gave it his seal of approval. "It's really good," he said. "I could use it about now.

"Caffeine can't really jolt me. New Yorkers don't really get jolted by caffeine," he said.

Not everyone is ready to bottoms up, though.

"If I drank 10 shots of espresso, I'd be sick. I couldn't do it. Too much for me," said Dorene Hebron, 58, of Dyker Heights. "I drink only decaf."

Fisher ordered up a special roast for the new drink from Gillies Coffee in Park Slope, which put together a blend of beans from Honduras, Brazil and Indonesia.

"At first they thought it was completely crazy and nuts, but they went with it," he said.

Dr. Jacob Shani, the chief of cardiology at Maimonides Medical Center, who has studied thehealth effects of caffeine, said java lovers should proceed with caution.

"It will make the heart beat a little faster, and it will increase blood pressure," he said.

"If you're young and healthy you will get away with it, [but] it's not something I would recommend."

Fisher, 37, who lives in Bay Ridge, said he's pushing the envelope in the hope of bringing coffee cred to his home borough.

"Why is it that pushing the limits of coffee should only be confined to Seattle or Portland?" he said.

"I want the East Coast, and particularly Brooklyn, to be recognized as a coffee destination."

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