Coffee

[Hair Trigger]

I wanted to get an idea of what brands and how much folks drink of this glorious invention:

So,

1) How much?
2) How do you make it?
3) Caff or DeCaf?
4) Brands?

Thanks!

My SIL is from Colombia and is a commercial pilot. He brings me coffee from Colombia when he makes a trip down that way and it is head and shoulders better than anything I've bought up here. When I buy locally I like the Cafe Bustello espresso grind; it works well in a drip coffee maker and has a robust flavor. I have one cup a day, usually. I fill my 20 oz beer mug when I first get up and use a dollop of heavy cream and it carries me well into the afternoon. I sometimes will have a cup in the evenings but it makes going to sleep more difficult.

I like Black Rifle coffee. I don’t think they even make decaf. Two cups in the morning a couple hours apart. Just a splash of sugar free French Vanilla creamer and no sugar. I make it in a kuerig, but I use a kuerig brand reusable, refillable K-cup.

Drinking decaf of anything is like shooting a gun with blanks. No effect downrange. I like coffee for its flavor but also want the caffeine kick.

 

[M29since14]

I’m a coffee opportunist. Whatever someone offers! Decaf gets the, “Thanks, I’m ok,” response. At home I use K-cups, which work well for me because the doc is constantly reminding me to limit the coffee drinking. I prefer small quantities, 5-6 ounces per fix, and black. I haven’t used one of those huge coffee mugs you see folks lugging around in at least thirty years. If it’s lousy coffee, I drink about half and leave the rest sitting around. No point in drinking baaaad coffee.

I won’t pay much for a cup of coffee. Of the fast food restaurants, Culver’s (by far) has the best coffee. Most restaurant coffee is terrible, and at $3-$4 a cup in my neck of the woods - forget it.

 

[fatcat3]

Maxwell House from an honest to god percolator that sits on the gas range. 2 in the AM and one, turn on the fire to reheat or re-percolate if I'm not paying attention, just before bed.

 

[tlawler]

My doctor said two cups but she didn’t say how big of a cup.

Keurig now. I miss my old percolator.

I probably wouldn’t buy a Keurig, but the kids got one for my wife a few Christmas’s ago. She never used it that much and it ended up in a storage box in the garage. In our new place, I rediscovered it. Works great if you’re the only one in the house drinking coffee. I bought a couple of reusable K-cups that I can fill with my poison of choice.

 

[Brownie0486]

I probably wouldn’t buy a Keurig, but the kids got one for my wife a few Christmas’s ago. She never used it that much and it ended up in a storage box in the garage. In our new place, I rediscovered it. Works great if you’re the only one in the house drinking coffee. I bought a couple of reusable K-cups that I can fill with my poison of choice.View attachment 870621

Gave up on that machine years ago when it stopped working after less than a year. Drip coffee maker's been running for years without any issues

 

[stu1ritter]

Graffeo's of San Francisco, house dark roast and then made with a Milita filter and a 5 minute soak, beans ground at 5.5 on a scale of 0-8. . Decaf taste about the same. Buying coffee from them since 1973. The house dark has been called rocket fuel by some!

Stu

 

[keithpip]

My wife and I drink two cups each in the morning every day. We’ve been trying different coffees lately even grinding our own beans. Right now we have Yuban but are about to change to Community Breakfast Blend. We perk it in a vintage GE electric percolator we got off EBay. We bought it because we had a similar percolator when we first married in 1982.

 

[Bro. Dave]

...wife and I drink about two cups each every morning. I set the coffee maker up each night as part of my "getting ready for bed" ritual. Eight O'Clock whole bean Columbian ground in a burr grinder and water put into the reservoir of the Mocha-Master drip maker. The Mocha Master utilizes an insulated carafe rather than a burner so the coffee doesn't continue to "cook" while the first cup is consumed. Which ever one of us gets up first flip the switch. She sometimes dilutes hers with a little hot water as I believe that it doesn't take as much water to make coffee as some people think.

 

[glenwolde]

2-3 cups in the AM. 12 cup Mr. Coffee drip and Folgers Columbian. I don't want to work at it.

On top of that we sometimes have kind of a homemade Frappuccino. If there's leftover coffee I freeze it in an ice cube tray. In the single-serve blender I put 1/2 a tray of coffee cubes. Add a couple of fingers of a refrigerated Coffee Mate creamer, flavor of your choice. Fill to the top of the ice with milk. Whole. Skim. Almond. Whatever. Then add a generous shot of chocolate syrup. Blend.

 

[CALREB]

Went to Black irish tea some years ago. stomach is better but I covet the the super strong french roast and or expresso roast the wife has every morning.

 

[Sucre]

At one time, Philadelphia was the coffee roasting center of the US. As recently as the '90's, you couldn't drive down I95 through Philly without being overwhelmed by the intoxicating aroma of roasting coffee beans. Ellis Coffee (1854) is one of the big companies, providing coffee and coffee service to almost every restaurant and diner in the tristate area. Melitta had it's headquarters and roasting operations just across the river in Cherry Hill, NJ. Still, today, there are many smaller roasters, including a pioneer in small-scale roasting, Old City Coffee. I was their first customer, back in 1985.

 

[ChoochGambino]

At one time, Philadelphia was the coffee roasting center of the US. As recently as the '90's, you couldn't drive down I95 through Philly without being overwhelmed by the intoxicating aroma of roasting coffee beans. Ellis Coffee (1854) is one of the big companies, providing coffee and coffee service to almost every restaurant and diner in the tristate area. Melitta had it's headquarters and roasting operations just across the river in Cherry Hill, NJ. Still, today, there are many smaller roasters, including a pioneer in small-scale roasting, Old City Coffee. I was their first customer, back in 1985.

I'm guessing that was a better smell than what's there now?

 

[Heinz]

I do an 8 cup pot a day.
1/3 cup dark roast caffeinated beans
2/3 cup dark roast San Francisco Bay Decaf beans (Swiss Water Process)
Fresh ground, Mr Coffee drip. When I want the best, I use a Chemex Pour over and 50/50 mix.

 

[URIT]

Four to Five 5-ounce cups, drip brewed black Eight O'clock medium roast 100% Colombian Peaks.

 

[tlawler]

Gave up on that machine years ago when it stopped working after less than a year. Drip coffee maker's been running for years without any issues

When this one dies, I won’t get another. But I do have to admit that for a single serving and being able to use your own grounds, it is convenient.

 

[TJohnD]

I drink CDM Coffee & Chicory from NOLA. We brew it in a Cuisinart drip machine that is set to bold.

Whatever isn't consumed after we get up for the day is placed into the thermos for consumption throughout the remainder of the day.

If I'm out and about, I'll carry the thermos along with me.

 

[ChoochGambino]

When this one dies, I won’t get another. But I do have to admit that for a single serving and being able to use your own grounds, it is convenient.

For quickies I use a knockoff single cup version that cost $25 on Amazon. Cant kill it.

 

[Heinz]

The premeasured cups always seem very weak to me.

 

[Mike LaNier]

I probably drink 16 to 20 ounces of Kauai Coffee every morning, more on weekends. The Kauai Coffee Company has some of the best coffee around, bar none, and ship it to us when we get low... Expensive? Well, yeah, but worth it!

 

[EPP]

I get 60# bags of Vietnamese highland beans, Roast then till just after the second crack when they get dark chocolate brown. Then I grind them fine and run through my espresso maker to get 4 shots. I then steam 8oz of 1/2 and 1/2 so it has a nice head of foam on it and add the espresso. I might brew another cup of straight coffee later using a French press. I even have a stove top pressure vessel espresso maker and butane stove that I travel with.

I'm also a home roaster; 1st tasted fresh roasted back in 2001, and realized how much better it was and how quickly coffee will go stale. Started roasting when time allowed some time later. I'm currently on my 4th roaster without having to splurge on an expensive one, currently using a glass drum roaster on my grill outside. And haven't had to resort to buying roasted coffee since retirement (10yrs.). Normally do two 8oz. roasts one after the other, about a week's worth. I also normally roast to the end of the 2nd crack.
My coffee of choice is Costa Rican from the Tarrazú area, I normally have two double espressos in the morning one in the afternoon and sometimes one after dinner. But I have five different brewers, a Moka espresso pot, a Aeropress, a stove top Italian Espresso from the '50's, a vacuum pot and finally a Gaggia Classic machine.
Buck is in charge of bean security.

 

[pawngal]

I'll be the odd one here, basically I really don't care much for coffee, especially hot coffee. .For a long time I'd add add a bunch of flavored creamer. One day I added some cold Coke to the black coffee and I've been doing that ever since. Cools it down and changes the flavor only a little. I use a Keurig dark roast kcups.

 

[Baxter6551]

Im the only coffee drinker in the house. I like the Black Rifle “Just Black” but my main is the Costco Colombian Beans which I grind. Just picked up a new coffee pot from JC Penney - a Ninja that was on a great sale. It can use pods or a grind basket for which you can get paper filter. It brews a much better cup of coffee than Keurig.

https://www.jcpenney.com/p/ninja-si...-coffee-maker/ppr5008411795?pTmplType=regular

 

[lihpster]

I probably drink 16 to 20 ounces of Kauai Coffee every morning, more on weekends. The Kauai Coffee Company has some of the best coffee around, bar none, and ship it to us when we get low... Expensive? Well, yeah, but worth it!

I also like Kauai coffee. Used to get their Garden Isle medium roast, but lately I have been buying the dark roast Ne Pali Coast blend. Slightly more flavor, if slightly less caffeine. I use the pods for day to day. For camping or special occasions, I use a pour over and some of Kauai's 100% Hawaiian whole beans. I can get the pods at my local grocery store or off Amazon. For the 100% stuff, I order direct from Kauai Coffee Company.