if i use my victorian hand crank grinder its as good as valentine's. i have an old stove top drink-o-later.

Specifically, Jamaican Blend.

not the cheapest stuff, but what comes in vacuum packed bricks. I drink it black and husband drinks it about half coffee, half half & half. Got to have my coffee in the morning, a cup in the afternoon is great if I'm not too busy, and when my Monday night group meets at a local coffee shop, I have a decaf latte.

but loved seeing "half half and half" there on the screen

...if it's not available in your area,
consider moving.

in Canada.

In store roasted. I’ve bought coffee that was roasted less than an hour before I walked in the door. Nothing in any grocery store is as fresh. Not even close.

That being said, Peet’s is pretty good.

Right now into IHOp

Boiled because that's the method used for many centuries on Greek Island where they live to 122. More brain chemicals in boiled coffee.

Of course boiled is frowned on in North America. They want to sell coffee makers and filters.

It could be it’s considered old fashioned today due to the wide assortment of various coffees.

Eight O Clock made at home is my go-to. If I feel like splurging I occasionally buy a bag of Peet’s Big Bang.

Spit! lol.

Community rules at our house!

Delivered to our home in Kansas via fedex. Excellent turnaround service.

Grind them every morning.

A real hippy coffee place. Open to the public on Saturday in the AM. The rest is an on line biz.

https://yeahmetoocoffee.com/

Some people say it is the best coffee in the world.

https://www.yelp.com/biz/yeah-me-too-coffee-clintonville Pix @ link.

From the heart of The People’s Democratic Republic of Clintonville.

And tea. Have done so for at least thirty years. I really love the taste of coffee, just can’t take the caffeine.
My preferred one is Kurig Donut Shop decaf. When I’m feeling ambitious and overspent, I get some Viennese Sumatra at my local coffee roasters.
For tea, I drink a lemon ginger herbal.

black coffee or double espresso from Death Wish Beans

I can't buy it here in Houston, so I have it sent from Minnesota.

Sent by the truckload?

Even my wife, who's more of a tea drinker, likes Caribou.

Caribou is yummy. For a little while, well after I moved from MN to TX, Caribou Coffee showed up in Einsteins’ Bagels here. But they made the drinks differently than in the real Caribou stores, like basic, cheap chocolate syrup versus the 3 different options of chocolate chips. All the drinks totally tasted different than they should. So no surprise, the Caribou setups disappeared. I only get real Caribou treats when visiting up north now. (But I mail order Caribou grounds for brewing at home.)

You don't see it much in supermarkets anymore, either.

... it's organic. Only one cup though, and no caffeinated sodas. I know people who drink caffeine all day. How do they do it without bouncing off the walls?

at least drinking them on the regular. Not good.

Leelanau Coffee Roasting Co, Lakers blend. Best I've ever used.

1 cup in the a.m. most days. Cold rainy Dat, maybe two.

EVER?

As to coffee, given I am up well before it gets hot, I usually drink black coffee. For some time I've been drinking:
New England Coffee Chocolate Cappuccino, Medium Roast, Ground Coffee. Honestly, I don't taste the purported chocolate cappuccino flavor--it just isn't bitter with a fairly nondescript flavor--and I make it as a pour-over.

has on the shelf. A good dose of half and half makes it taste better.

disappeared from the store where I shop. I have been buying Green Mountain Dark.

I have food intolerance sensitivities so I can't eat whatever I want all willy nilly.


I generally intermittently fast for roughly 18 to 19 hours on the daily, but not every day.


My name is Niagara and I'm a coffee fiend. ☕
I also have to pee like a racehorse. 🐎

are kindred spirits in that respect!

☕

My favorite roast from the tiny touristown roaster where I used to live.

Organic, fair trade... I get 5lbs of beans at a time, last me about 5 - 6 months and is a better deal than the five or six roasters' products from around here and only two of those offer fair trade coffee. I'll spend a little more to support fair trade and local small businesses.

We buy it at Costco.

"High quality coffee is sustainable only through a human-centric approach. It's a simple idea. And as we like to think of it, our secret recipe for the best cup of coffee in the world. We provide coffee drinkers with the opportunity to engage in a cycle that begins with, and returns to, our partners in coffee-growing regions. We’re fully engaged in that cycle, sourcing coffee directly from farmers through ownership of our importer Cooperative Coffees and circling back to the farmers and their communities via our sister nonprofit, On the Ground."

https://www.highergroundstrading.com/pages/purpose

Support those who support the same causes that we do.

Moka Java blend, medium dark roast. “Moka” to distinguish from “Mocha” I guess.

One cup in the morning wakes me up.

Runner up: Folger's Black Silk. I wouldn't want to imagine life without coffee!

And roast them myself… best coffee ever!

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Care to share recipe/tips for home roasting? I grind organic whole beans and do pour over a cup at a time. but haven’t gone further down the rabbit hole -- yet!

We bought a used air popcorn popper for $3.00, bought a couple of pounds of green organic coffee beans on Amazon and watched a video. After a few months, we bought a JAVASTARR air popper on sale in Amazon for about $60.00. I then started buying my coffee beans from Burman coffee roasters. We used the JAVASTARR for about a year, until the motor died. About 2-3 months ago we bought the SR-800 roaster and the extension tube.

It’s been a fun learning process. We log each roast with respect to fan, power and time. It usually takes 10 minutes to roast 8 oz.

Never knew you could use an air popper for coffee beans! Sounds like fun.

Then I was fond of Illy (I lived in Venezia). Now I'm fine/delighted with Costco French Roast (cost per pound similar to Peet's French Roast in the 70s!!!)

Yes, I like strong "burnt" coffee -- get over it.

the stronger, the better. I experiment with coffee from various countries.

Just Googled it and I see it's owned by The J.M. Smucker Company.

"Big food" moves in and takes over everything, it seems.

It's ubiquitous in Cuban communities.

Folger's or Chock Full o' Nuts.

I love it via pour over.

they must have!

I like lots of different brands, but dislike Starbucks.

Slightly different roast/flavor, both really good.


But I was thrilled when I figured this out!

After our first trip when I discovered this magical substance we stopped by a friend's place to drop off some orchid plants. I waited in the car, and my wife came back out to see if I wanted to join them for a cup of coffee. OK...went in, and as I raised the cup to my mouth and got the first bit of aroma I said, "Oh, Kona!". My wife looked at the friend and said, "I told you he'd know." They had also recently returned from trip to the Big Island.

Our freezer held a lot of sealed bags, but the price has gotten so out of hand (last time I checked, my favorite Ferrari Kona Peaberry was something like $70/12 oz.) that I haven't had any in.a few years.

authored by Michael Pollan has a chapter of around 79 pages on the effects of caffeine. I read it, I don't remember what he wrote, but I remember thinking "nothing you could say can tear me away from my" cuppa.

Light and sweet

Definitely my morning antidepressant and anti-inflammatory drug of choice. It also helps with digestion.

When I'm out of the house, it's Peet's.

There is one I WANT to try: Phase Connect.

had to switch to decaf years ago due to acid reflux, but still occasionally have full strength if need energy or for a treat

add some salt. i also use a lot of 1/2 + 1/2 or whipping cream + in winter i addtoffee/butterscotch. in summer hazelnut flavoring. cousin introduced me to cafe de leche. oh. i make this all the time.
oh. valentine is light roast. least bitter. costa rica my favotite.

I’ll try it if they have decaf.

My son has a very nice Guatemalan medium roast that's very popular.

Right now, it's Chock Full O' Nuts, but I also like Gevalia, Eight O Clock, and Maxwell House.

I like any of the brands that you listed, and the others, not listed. I like Caribou, "Lake Shore" blend but I also enjoy the Folgers, "Simply -Smooth".
I'm a coffee junkie. I have coffee since I was 3 years old. I have been making, pots of coffee since I was 4 years old. Growing up, my parents used a percolator to make it. That was in the 50's through the 70's. After that, we switched to drip coffee, in the mid- 1970's. That is all.

Full Kona, from Hawaii, but at $40/lb, only for special occasions!

that we're at close to 100 votes and nobody has voted for McDonald's.

Rotten Ronnie's is the #1 burger chain in the world (by volume, not quality) and yet they could never get coffee right.

I can tell a really good coffee from another, but I'm not that fussy.
My wife, though, only wants Dunkin, so that's what we buy.

Nothing super-cheap, just whatever. Sometimes Starbucks, sometimes DD, and this week IHOP brand.

In 1957 John Wilkins, who ran a coffee company in Washington, DC, found out the FCC required occasional ten-second gaps in television broadcasts...and that those short blocks of time could be sold to advertisers. He got his advertising agency to find someone who could make him a bunch of memorable ten-second spots; the advertising executive found an up-and-coming puppeteer named Jim Henson.

Henson had an interesting concept: two Muppets, one named Wilkins - who liked the coffee and who sounds and looks like a young Kermit the Frog - and Wontkins - who did not - would appear. Wilkins would invite Wontkins to have some Wilkins Coffee. Upon Wontkins' refusal an act of senseless violence would be perpetrated upon his fuzzy little body. This part took eight seconds, followed by a two-second beauty shot of a coffee container with some text overlaid on the frame. They eventually made about 150 of them. The spots were popular with little kids so Mr. Wilkins started selling Wilkins and Wontkins puppets, which were also very popular.

These spots were so popular John Wilkins wound up licensing them to companies outside the National Capitol Region to advertise other things - meaning he was probably making more money from renting out Jim Henson than he was selling coffee, and he was making a ton of money doing that. These spots led to great things for Mr. Henson, like Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, The Dark Crystal and The Labyrinth.

So...the entire Henson empire was founded on violent coffee ads.

Since you can't buy Wilkins Coffee at all anymore and you never could buy it outside Washington, DC, I've been buying whole-bean coffee from Trader Joe's. It's not the cheapest coffee and definitely not the finest coffee, but I like it fine.