Scotch Coffee... Which is inevitably Scotch minus the coffee!

Grande Sugar-Free Vanilla Soy Latte

BlackCreekBearTRP1 wrote:Coffee...!!!
I hate the taste and the aroma of that swill

Exactly

My favorite at the coffee shops is what I call a "Hammerhead"... I ask for the biggest black coffee (French or Italian roast, if available) they have and have them add a double shot of espresso to it. That'll get your heart started in the morning!

At home I just brew a pot of Costco's French Roast and make it nice and strong. Since my sister in law gave me that huge cappuccino mug I only drink 3 cups a day now (I don't care of the pot says '12' - it's 3!). Sometimes use a French Press. Trader Joe's Italian roast is excellent - very black, but not as much acid as most French roasts.

Kona coffee by drip, mellow and rich, something about that Hawaiian volcanic soil that makes the best stuff on earth. Only coffee I can drink without milk or sugar.

Yet another coffee hater here. You guys can have it all. Even flavored it still tastes horrible to me (and yes, I have tried it with chocolate). Blegh!

Le Presse

Tea - it's the new coffee

I'm in the coffee hating crowd. I get my caffeine from either tea or coke.

Joe.

Maxwell House instant.

No coffee. Tea or hot chocolate.

Tea

pooflady wrote:A percolator.

Also my preferred, however I usually go with drip since it's much faster.

French press

mrsly69 wrote:YOU don't know coffee. One of the worst brands. I have had worse, but it gets ranked near the bottom in every poll. Good roasted coffee can only be purchased at a local farmers market or coffee house. Once you buy fresh roasted coffee, AND DONE RIGHT, you will never buy coffee at a supermarket again. Price is a bit higher, but I have a local coffee house that brews weekly and it sells for $10 -$30 per pound. Based on bean and market.

PS: Dunkin Donuts is CRAP folks. It is those bean lovers in the Northeast that think it is the best thing since sliced bread. Another name brand that is barely better than FOLGERS. A great supermarket brand are Tully's and Peet's. Starbucks to me is the baseline. If on sale for $7 a 12 ounce bag, BUY IT. But Folgers, Dunkin Donuts, Chock full of nuts,are CRAP! Maybe on sale for $3 a bag and you need lots of cream to cover its burned taste. YUCK!

Yes!!!! Thank you for being one of the few that like true coffee.
Please people, by no means does month or many month old roasted coffee pre-ground compare to fresh roasted coffee. Keurieeeg, come on, you have to do better. Convenience they have, but if you like convenience over taste than McDonalds has coffee.

Support the local coffee shops, there are plenty out there that make good coffee. They will have more expensive beans. But if they care about what they do, they will never be more then a few weeks roasted.

I prefer the "Poor (Wo)Man's Mocha".

l use my bodum tea kettle to boil water, then add:

1 packet of Starbucks Italian Roast VIA (Extra Bold) coffee
1 packet sugar-free hot cocoa mix
2 Mini Moo half-n-half creamers
1 packet of truvia

I use a 20 ounce thermos from Starbucks, which l bought over the holidays (the hammered gold one; it keeps my drinks hot for 12+ hours!).

For a Peppermint Mocha, I add less than an eigth of a teaspoon of Peppermint Oil, which you can buy at the grocery store for <$2 a bottle.

Enjoy!

Also, for tea drinkers, Harney & Sons (harney.com) has been my go to place for insane, mind-blowing tea for 2 years now. Incredible tea across all types, from specialty international teas to the most delicate Jasmine Green Teas to really unique blends and organic teas. They also have tea implements and gifts.

As much as l love coffee, I've also grown to enjoy and appreciate tea.

well as you can guess by the username, im mormon... sooooo hot chocolate? thats the closest i got

I hate coffee so I picked espresso. When I need that quick caffeine boost, its a small amount that I can finish in one gulp and quickly clean out with another taste

French Press = Bomb-diggity

Crappuchino?

Starbucks tastes like they roasted it with a blowtorch. Thus the nickname "Charbucks". We know coffee here in the Pacific Northwest and Starbucks (Fivebucks) is horrible.

mrsly69 wrote:YOU don't know coffee. One of the worst brands. I have had worse, but it gets ranked near the bottom in every poll. Good roasted coffee can only be purchased at a local farmers market or coffee house. Once you buy fresh roasted coffee, AND DONE RIGHT, you will never buy coffee at a supermarket again. Price is a bit higher, but I have a local coffee house that brews weekly and it sells for $10 -$30 per pound. Based on bean and market.

PS: Dunkin Donuts is CRAP folks. It is those bean lovers in the Northeast that think it is the best thing since sliced bread. Another name brand that is barely better than FOLGERS. A great supermarket brand are Tully's and Peet's. Starbucks to me is the baseline. If on sale for $7 a 12 ounce bag, BUY IT. But Folgers, Dunkin Donuts, Chock full of nuts,are CRAP! Maybe on sale for $3 a bag and you need lots of cream to cover its burned taste. YUCK!

Espresso Macchiato. It's just enough foam to cut a little bite off the espresso without losing the flavor. If I can't get that, than a Chemex or pour over of some sort.

Black tea - hot with cream or cold with lemon....NO sugar. And then, if you are really really lucky, you take those 3-5 sips where the temp, flavor, and feel is perfection.....tea nirvana!

3 shots Espresso
1 Cappuccino
1 Mocha
all in one Big Cup
I call it a CRACKA-CCINO
It will wake ya up or kill ya

Dang Double Post

French Press, at home. Ordered, just plain black.

Electric Percolator-Folgers coffee-half-n-half cream.

AEROPRESS!

Latte. And by latte, I don't mean that weak dilute hot milk with a splash of coffee for flavor carp they sell at that mermaid place. I'm talking a 3:1 latte with real strong dark espresso. By the mermaid place's sizes, a "large" should have 5 ounces of espresso in it. But they put 2. And that, my friends, is an abomination.

lonelypond wrote:Revelation. And add me to the people waiting for the tea poll.

Second that!

French press, vacuum pot, or the Aeropress for a quick shot. Sometimes the "where" is as important as the "what"...I will take my coffee in Florence however it is made.

Just give me a cup of good old fashion Black coffee made with a percolator. Thanks the best!

Whole bean Mystic Monk Coffee (Pumpkin Spice and Jingle Bell Java)!

https://www.mysticmonkcoffee.com/store/all-coffees2-c6.php

retmileo wrote:Maxwell House instant.

Ohmygosh!Ohmygosh!Ohmygosh!!!! is that really coffee?

Blackwidow
6 double shots of espresso topped with 8 oz coffee served black.

Coffee is defined as water at 212 or close to it, steeped over the grounds.

The rest of that junque is foo-foo coffee wanna be's. Want candy, eat candy, want a cream shake, eat a cream shake. Keep that garbage out of my coffee.

I have a La Pavoni lever action machine that I use on weekends or when I have time for it. In the morning I depend on my Capresso pump machine to get me a decent shot fast.

When I run out of ground espresso (can't seem to grind it right for the Capresso for some odd reason) I do use a SMALL French press or a moka pot, or a simple filter cone or Aeropress.

I also have a rare Beko Turkish coffee maker with 110V (most are 220v) for times when I want something exotic.

Since I don't smoke a pipe (not for years), this seems to make up for the blending of tobacco and pipes that took away too much cash over the years (and preserved my voice, which I use to make money!) I still hanker for a tin of bell's Three Nuns tobacco from Scotland.

We have hard well water, so drip makers conk out pretty quickly.

Mishvmd wrote:Black tea - hot with cream or cold with lemon....NO sugar. And then, if you are really really lucky, you take those 3-5 sips where the temp, flavor, and feel is perfection.....tea nirvana!

I do like Red Rose Tea, even though I have tried fancier ones.