Coffee fiend?

[NutmegCT]

OK - fess up. What "off the shelf" coffee and brew technique do you guys use?

Not the "$25 for 10 oz plus $19 shipping" - but the beans you buy at a store. Not the $1500 atomic powered Italian brewer, but the device(s) you buy at Kohl's or Walmart.

I've been a coffee addict since high school days, and am now alternating among Dunkin, Peets, and Starbuck Breakfast Blend, beans only. French press. My local roaster/supplier just closed down and moved to Hawaii.

(I also use a Flair for espresso - cheapskate that I am ...)

What say ye all?

 

[PAUL161]

We drink coffee straight, no milk, no sugar!
Best, "Good To The Last Drop"! Maxwell House. I can't count how many years we've been drinking it, because that's what my folks drank when I was a kid.
Worst, Starbucks coffee! The reason they put all the junk in it is to kill the taste.
That's the worst coffee I've ever drank! Tried it in three different places and threw them all in the trash! Never again.

 

[NutmegCT]

Thanks Paul. Have to confess, I'm so far into coffee, I often just chew the roasted beans.

Used to buy Community Coffee when I lived in east Texas, but not to be found here in Connecticut.

 

[Mickey Richaud]

Luzianne, CDM, Community, French Market, Union coffee and chicory - whichever we can get. Favorite used to be Union, but harder to get these days unless from an online source. Don't grind beans any more.

 

[waltesefalcon]

I buy Community Coffee or Dunkin Donuts beans. The roast depends in my mood at the time if purchase. I also like good old fashioned Cain's blue or red label ground coffee. On work days, like today, I use a Bunn speed brew, on the weekends I use a French press.

 

[GregW]

I buy my coffee by the pound from a local coffee shop for a lot of years. A.J. the owner has been roasting since '95. Melitta grinder used every day from that time as well. Brewed in a chemex pot for the last 10 years or so.

 

[PAUL161]

Dunkins is my coffee on the road! Don't remember ever getting a bad cup of Dunkin's, of course, I could have been too tired to notice!

 

[DrEntropy]

Any brand wot's on sale. Mitsy is th' usual hunter-gatherer, a coupon maven. And BOGO should've been her online nomer.

Black& Decker machine (has a timer, set for four AM). Went thru two "Mr. Coffee" units in less than a year, disgusted so switched.

Unadulterated! NO milk/cream/sugar/flavoring. UGH!

Usually when we're both at th' hovel all day a second pot gets made.

I keep a stash of Black Rifle "Better than Black" for myself, for when I want a REAL cuppa.

 

[NutmegCT]

Great ideas here, some to do some experimentin' with. When I was a kid, my parents said:

1. coffee isn't worth drinking if you can fill the cup and still see the bottom, and
2. coffee is only strong enough if you can stand the spoon straight up in the cup, and the spoon won't fall over.

 

[2002S2000]

Good description of proper color I've heard: "stump water"! I use Starbucks French Roast (whole bean) in 2.5 lb. bag from Costco when "on sale" @ $12 +/-. If I run out before next sale, I use Whole Foods 365 whole bean (French roast I believe). Preparation is 1 cup "pour over" with ceramic or plastic or stainless device, depending on which is clean and handy. I do add half and half. Great topic at this hour!

 

[JPSmit]

I've been a coffee addict since high school days, and now Starbuck Breakfast Blend, beans only. French press.

What say ye all?

Pretty much exactly that - Costco beans (preferably French roast if in stock). French Press

also Nespresso during the day and a Moka espresso pot when I am feeling European.

Creme/ milk in the coffee.

'Outside' (remember that?) Starbucks or McDonalds coffee and occasionally Tim Hortons (ain't what it used to be)

 

[DNK]

Caffe Umbria. 5lbs a month shipped to me

 

[LarryK]

Community Coffee, Columbian in a $20 Black & Decker dripper. Add extra coffee, works for us.

 

[mikephillips]

Never developed a taste for coffee, used to joke I was the only IT tech support guy in the company that didn't help drain the several pots a day made. I, am a tea drinker...

 

[LarryK]

My wife is a tea drinker, until about 5 yrs ago. Then one morning she decided to try coffee, with foamed milk, because you can't just pop in anywhere for a proper cup of tea. Two cups in the morning and makes her green tea in the eveing.

 

[Sherlock]

The only coffee "device" I use is an Aeropress, it's not a machine but various pieces of plastic that make great coffee!

As for beans, I grind them in a vintage 1960's Braun coffee grinder, for my daily I use McDonald's beans, and a combination of various local beans that I purchase, used more for special occasions during the week (like weekends for example)

Aeropress link - > AeroPress Official Store <

 

[DavidApp]

A Capresso bur grinder and a Cuisinart drip machine.

We have been getting Island Roasters coffee from New Smyrna beach Florida for several years. Better than star bucks.
The first pot is Folgers and the evening pot is the Island Roasters pot.

I do occasionally make Cuban coffee in my expresso pot.

David

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[DNK]

.... Better than star bucks...


David

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[waltesefalcon]

I forgot to mention that I drink my coffee black. I guess that I assumed that the BCF crew would all be manly men like meself. Then I saw that someone here drinks Starbucks and that illusion was shattered (they probably drive MGs too).

 

[DNK]

I forgot to mention that I drink my coffee black. I guess that I assumed that the BCF crew would all be manly men like meself. Then I saw that someone here drinks Starbucks and that illusion was shattered (they probably drive MGs too).