Any real coffee snobs here? People who have to grind it fresh every morning? Can’t settle for the swill that passes for coffee at those popular coffee places?
I get various coffees from them, but my favorite and regular brew is their Full Vengeance Dark Blend, cause I like my coffee like my women: strong and black:
I use the French press on occasion (as it’s by far the best tasting coffee method in my view) but use the regular coffee maker because it’s easier and regular intakes of un filtered coffee raises cholesterol in some people:
I enjoy a good cup of Joe myself. Through the week I use regular old Folgers because it’s quick and easy, but this is my weekend treat http://www.medagliadoro.com/products.htm. It’s great in a french press!
Yup, buy it and grind it. Currently using a Krups cone filter setup, because I have yet to find a press that will have java waiting to pour when I stagger into the kitchen at 6 AM. Kick myself for getting rid of my grand dads old percolator.
White Chocolate Mocha is the only thing even remotely palatable from Fivebucks.
I have one of those small 4-cup coffee makers. The whole pot goes into a tall, 30 oz Tupperware cup with about 1/4 inch less than a full 1/3 cup of sugar, and the Tupperware cup is filled the rest of the way up to the brim with regular 2% milk. I actually have this down to a science.
In the fall/winter, I put the coffee maker on a timer to have it ready and warm when I’m ready. In the spring/summer, I make it the night before and store in the refrigerator overnight.
After a 4 mile run in the heat and humidity, there’s nothing better than kicking back with a cold cup of coffee to enjoy the morning.
I’m sure I’ll be crucified for this…but after trying a lot of different coffee’s I now prefer Dunkin Doughnuts. I love DD’s for more than one reason now!
I will admit that I started off just drinking Gevalia or whatever I picked up at the store and now I enjoy grinding my own and taking the time to prepare a propper cup of coffee. I guess I owe my snobbery to my Dad.
Once a person has a taste and knowledge of good coffee, there’s no going back to the crap that passes for coffee sold at most places in the US. Real Kona coffee in a French press is coffee as good as it gets to my taste. I’m not really a big fan of things like expreso and such personally, as I like a full sized mug of coffee to drink, not those little cups. Had a full sized cup of Cuban coffee vs the little cups they come in, and found out the hard way why thy come in those little cups. :eek:
A hot shower and a fresh grind and brew coffee’s every morning and I can get through anything the world throws at me. I lived in SE Asia and Spain for several years as a younger man.
I learned early the value and rewards of a superior cup of very strong coffee.
Not particular to a brand, anything Costco has in multi pound weights and is organic.
Actually I think DD and BK both market a surprisingly good cup of coffee if Im on the road.
These guys happen to be local to me. Organic Sumatra French Roast, made in a French press, every morning. I also go through it fast enough that I can have them grind it for me. The only other coffee maker I’ve ever had that I liked as much was a vacuum coffee maker.
I believe so. I was lucky enough to know folks there or have my parents bring me some back when they visited. Trust but verify holds true, even for coffee.
Unless there’s a good roaster close to you you know of and gets good reviews, yes. Real Kona is big $$$$$, so my regular brew is listed above, or search their site for something else that jumps out at you.
I purchased a Rancilio Sylvia espresso machine with a Rocky burr grinder a couple of years back and get fresh beans from a local roaster. A cup of coffee in my house is a double shot Americano.
What passes for coffee these days tastes like, as my wife so eloquently put it, “hot water that somebody dipped a brown Crayon in.”
I have a french press I use on weekends. I don’t grind my own, but need to start.
Cleanup is too much of a pain in the ass during the week. I started out dumping it down the garbage disposal but it wound up in the dishwasher which earned me a big ration of shit at home.
