Cool - good thinking. Not sure I'd recommend people do the quick release trick, you forget to tighten it again and you could have a nasty accident (I won't go into details of how a friend's face was re-arranged by forgetting this). That's a cool habit to have been doing for 30 years, I'm afraid I'd forget. The brake trick I like & I'd use if I rode more in a city.

Moral of the story - don't drink coffee!