What coffee are you drinking?

[Major Nikon]

At work I'm drinking a medium roast Ethiopian hand ground in my Hario ceramic mill, brewed in an Aeropress.

At home I'm drinking an espresso blend ground in an electric mill and prepared with my home espresso machine.

[panader0]

1. This man prefers Maxwell House.

[Kali]

2. folgers classic roast in the cheapest drip machine that still had a timer...

often microwaved to reheat. I have NO class or taste when it comes to coffee.

[pinboy3niner]

6. Folgers Classic here, too

But I nuke the water and grounds together, then pour it through one of those cup-top filter cones.

AND I like McDonalds coffee. Senior coffee, including tax, is around 90 cents and refills are free. Woo-hoo!

[Kali]

8. I can even drink instant.

I just seem to have no taste for it. I NEED a cup in the morning, but I drown it in sugar and fake powdered creamer. Good coffee tastes like crap to me so why waste the money if I don't like it?

now beer? that is a different snobbery!

[Skittles]

66. I swear it beats most of the foofoo "pressed" coffee

I've tasted a variety and very often go back to just plain Folgers or Community

[hobbit709]

3. Mavis Bank Blue Mountain.

I alternate between Jamaica Blue Mountain, Ethiopian, and Yemeni coffees

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. I rotate between what I roast every week or so.

I get my green beans from Sweet Maria - current favorites are various Ethiopian (both regular and natural process - such a huge difference), Kenyan and Guatamalan (Huehuetenango esp) coffees, roasted to whatever level is suggested by the vendor. Been home roasting since 2007 and my wife and I are now utterly spoiled! Pretty easy - I use a Whirly Pop on a coleman stove on my front porch. Roast three types, 10 oz of each, which lasts us 1-2 weeks. Amazing to still be using the same roaster for 8 years - not a bad 20 dollar investment! I think I've got around 40 lbs of green beans stocked - 2 lb bags of lots of different ones.

We are French Press users. Travel with our coffee beans, grinder and plunge pot (evokes some interesting looks when we are sitting at a Hampton Inn making all of those good coffee smells!)

[Major Nikon]

5. I home roasted for many years

I went through several different roasting methods including the hot air corn popper. The best solution I found was a homemade stainless steel roasting drum hooked to a motorized rotisserie on my gas grill. Sweet Marias is a great retailer and I still use them often.

[NRaleighLiberal]

7. I suspect I will try other methods over time - amazing quality, isn't it?

Certainly broke me away from "charbucks" - when you realize that they roast all of the regional characteristics out of their beans!

[Major Nikon]

9. The darker the roast is the less of the bean varietal you will taste

For whatever reason, lots of people like dark roasts and it's easier to achieve a consistent product year after year.

With lighter roasts I can taste a difference even within a few days difference from the roasting date. Consumers that go to a chain coffee house are going to expect a consistent product, so I can understand why Starbucks uses a dark roast, but it isn't that hard to greatly improve on the quality.

[Enthusiast]

25. We also fresh roast. We use the SR300 Fresh Roast roaster.

Seems like we must replace the SR300 every few years. Sounds like I need to get a Whirly Pop.

We buy green beans from Burmans, Sweet Maria and The Coffee Bean Corral. Right now I have one from Tanzania and one from Guatemala roasted and five or six unroasted varieties in partial 5 lb bags.

We hand grind the beans every morning. It gets to be a chore. We also use the French Press.

Our coffee is good!

[Populist_Prole]

10. Chock Full o' Nuts New York Roast

Brewed strong on my Braun drip coffeemaker, a little bit of demerara sugar, and a cubic yard of Coffeemate powder to make it light brown.

I'm not a coffee fan or connoisseur: It's not a beverage per se'. I drink coffee only in the morning as both a wake-up drink, and to.....well...."stimulate" the plumbing in my lower abdomen to "liberate" me.

[Tipperary]

11. Peets

and the strongest blend.

[surrealAmerican]

24. same here

I usually end up with whatever they have on sale that's good and dark. I think the current batch I have is their Sumatran; I'll probably end up with the "holiday" blend next time.

[Tipperary]

36. I love the Sumatra.

Also love Major Dickinson's blend. Not sure I got the name right on that one, but it is good.

[Iggo]

12. Dark Magic.

Bold, not bitter.

[IcyPeas]

13. Mocha Java

I buy beans from The Coffee Roaster:
http://www.thecoffeeroaster.net/index.html

I grind them in a Bosch coffee grinder:
http://www.amazon.com/Bosch-MKM-6003-UC-Grinder/dp/B00005REEM/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top?ie=UTF8

and I make it in a Clever Coffee Dripper:
https://prima-coffee.com/equipment/abid/clever

deeelicious!

[Paper Roses]

14. Maxwell House "Lite". My Doc says no more caffeine but:

I cheat. Must have something with at least a little oomph, This 'lite' is half the caffeine.
Seems to do the job for me but I sure miss the high test.

BTW, Why does this one never go on sale? Other Max. House is on special every few weeks. Never the 'Lite'.

[blogslut]

21. Have you a coffee alternative?

I like Pero



It's made from barley. It's instant and I mix it with sugar and milk. I have taken to drinking it at night where I used to drink coffee all waking hours of the day.

[Paper Roses]

29. Thanks for the tip. I'll look for it! n/t

[beam me up scottie]

32. You can buy one can of regular and the other decaf and mix your own.

I did this for my mom when she was trying to cut back (this was before they had lite).

[KamaAina]

15. Whatever they put in the pot at work.

I think it's Colombian.

[Sanity Claws]

16. Do you drink Chardonnay at night?

Maybe we can share arugula recipes.

Light but meaningless snark that I couldn't pass up.

[Phentex]

38. LOL!

Love your sense of humor!

[PennyK]

17. Starbucks all the way

I buy their Verona, which has an almost-cocoa taste.

[Major Nikon]

18. Coffees grown at high altitudes tend to have more well defined chocolate notes

[Art_from_Ark]

44. "Mountain-grown is the richest kind..."

[Tom_Foolery]

19. Any cheap store brand. n/t

[Avalux]

20. At home I drink Jet Fuel.

An amazingly rich dark roast from the Independence Coffee Co. (local).

At work - bullshit Folgers concentrate. Blech.

[blogslut]

22. Grocery coffee made in a stove-top percolator.

I like my punk-rock slag from hell.

[Enthusiast]

23. That is beautiful!

I drink mine from a large Ohio State, Pink Floyd or Grateful Dead mug.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

26. We drink the Colombian from Costco.

I grind it in their grinders in the store, and then store it in our freezer at home.

We keep what we're currently using in the refrigerator for the daily use.

We LOVE Colombian!

[tammywammy]

60. You shouldn't store coffee in the refrigerator or freezer

It'll form condensation every time you take it out and water is an enemy to coffee before brewing. Storing in the fridge, it'll absorb scents from other food in there. You should store it in an opaque air tight container just on the counter or pantry.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

61. We keep it in a very air-tight jar with a solid rubber gasket, and it has never absorbed anything.

It has always worked extremely well for us.

[Cheese Sandwich]

27. This stuff from ALDI's

[aidbo]

28. Right now..

..this stuff

Out of one of these.

[Codeine]

30. Nescafé Instant.

What can I say, I'm a simple man of simple tastes.

[elias49]

46. That's what my parents always drank when I was a kid

55 years ago. My brother, sister and I took turns making coffee for them. They'd be in the 'parlor' watching television.
1 sugar for my father
1 and a half for my mother.

Wow. Thanks for sparking That synapse!

[Codeine]

54. I know exactly what you're talking about.

My grandfather always drank Sanka out of these little white mugs -- seeing either those classic old mugs or a container of Sanka is like an instant time machine.

[Mary A. Osborne]

31. coffee！

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You seem to pretty love coffee, could you tell me the benefit of coffee?

[PennyK]

41. Did you mean...

...the PERKS of coffee?

[beam me up scottie]

33. Pablo’s Pride Guatemalan beans.

Very inexpensive ($14 for 2lbs), ground at home in a Capresso burr grinder and brewed in a Bonavita automatic drip.

I have expensive taste so this is the best compromise I can afford.

[hopemountain]

64. $7 per lb for guatemalan beans

is a very good price and not expensive considering store beans where i live are $9.50 per lb.

[beam me up scottie]

65. Dark roasted in small batches and you can get them from Amazon.

I was paying $10.50/lb for Guatemalan beans at a local roasters but they went out of business.

I love the smell of fresh ground beans, I don't believe in heaven but if it exists it must smell like that.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

34. Beer, dammit

Black Label. Its past my bedtime! But I do drink a lot of Tim Horten's during the day and like it.

[pinboy3niner]

35. I put Red Bull in my coffee this morning...

[2naSalit]

47. Wow!

That reminds me of an experience I had long ago which had nothing to do with red Bull or coffee!

[Paladin]

37. Alfred's Blend, Anderson's Coffee, Austin, TX.

Awfully hard to go back to canned commercial coffee after you've had a cup of Anderson's.

[Major Nikon]

39. I like using Texas roasters

Anderson's is excellent. So is Dodd and Cuvee.

[hopemountain]

40. medium roast colombiano

under $7 a lb.
seattle #3 or don francisco or local roasted when it is on sale. cuisinart brewer, manual ceramic grinder.

no more french or dark roast - .

[shanti]

42. San Francisco Bay Coffee Company

Whole Bean French Roast from Costco. It's the only kind of coffee I buy. Grind it in an older Braun coffee grinder, and an old 4 cup drip Krups coffeemaker. Sweetened liberally with liquid Coffee-Mate Vanilla creamer, and just one cup a day in the AM. Obviously not a coffee connoisseur!

[OrwellwasRight]

43. Safeway Fair Trade Organic Guatemalan.

[BlueJazz]

45. Damn, you got style.

[2naSalit]

48. I drink only

the medium roasts that my local roaster... they're in the nearest town of 1200, they use nothing but fair trade beans, teas and fine chocolates. I grind it at home in a Kitcheaid grinder that I got at a yard sale and brew it in my porcelain Melita cone-drip device and drink it from a "bistro mug I received from the heads of the Nez Perce Tribal Council as a swag-gift years ago. Every cup is perfect and I drink it as my one luxury of the day so that no matter what happens after, I can handle it because I have already had the best thing of the day.

[Recursion]

50. Blue Tokai

Not sure if they're exporting, but in India they offer a really nice subscription model for Keralan and Tamil beans. Good for hot and cold brew.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

51. Sumatra Mandheling, from a press

Black, it's a great way to kick-start the day.

[IGoToDU]

52. ah, coffee.

Major Nikon I envy your amazing sounding brew!!!!! Around these parts it's Starbucks Via instant packs with fresh eggnog (ti the season).

[mucifer]

53. Trader Joe's cafe pajaro (fair trade)

[TuxedoKat]

55. Eight O'Clock Coffee

Regular. A good everyday coffee.

[meow2u3]

56. I got through drinking Wegman's lite caffeine

Half-caff made in a French press? Freakin' delicious!

[JCMach1]

57. I roast my own!

[Lizzie Poppet]

58. Caffe' Umbria "Bizzarri" (a medium-dark roast)

Made in my Kitchen Aid Siphon after grinding the beans in my Capresso 560 burr grinder...

Hail, fellow coffee geek!

[astral]

59. Lavanta from amazon

I buy 5-lb bags of beans, and buy 1/3 of it ground and use that first, so 15 lbs at as time. Light roast, they roast to order. Love this company, havent been using them very long. Blackety-black for me, and usually mice and strong.

[Wolf Frankula]

62. Winco Sumatra Mandheling

I grind it myself.

Wolf

[DFW]

63. Constant Comment

You may have a hard time finding that in your list of coffee varieties.

I'm a tea drinker, myself