Coffee. What are you drinking and what would you recommend?

[Geek]

I love Seattle's Best. Dutch Bros. is pretty heavy too. 

I live just a couple hundred miles from Seattle, and I'm up there every once in a while. Make it a point to go downtown by the wharf where the first Starbucks is. There's a tobacconist right next to it, so that's usually the second place I hit up to get a nice dark cigar, and find a spot down by the water and kick back for a little while. Now that's relaxing.

During the week I get a latte at their chain stores on the way to my office.   

 

[alexh]

How do I take my coffee?  

By the quart.

People who say "oh, my indy coffee shop is SO much better than Starbucks" are generally pretentious hipster idiots.

I agree. Where I live in BC, Canada, there's probably close to 100 indy coffee shops within driving distance. Even after drinking coffee for my entire life, since I was a child even, I still find myself going to Tim Horton's or McDonalds. Starbucks tastes bitter, burnt and stale to me. Tim Horton's and McDonalds sell so much coffee that it's almost impossible not to get a fresh cup. Also, people who tell you to drink coffee black, and that milk/cream/sugar ruins it are the worst. If it's shitty coffee, and tastes burnt, I'll add cream so I can get through it. If it's fresh and good, I'll drink it black. Not a sugar fan, but not going to tell you that it's wrong. (I'm T1 diabetic)

At home, buying locally roasted beans and grinding/brewing myself using a French or Aeropress remains cheap and produces good-tasting coffee. I'd advise against buying any pre-ground coffee; The shelf life of coffee drops after being roasted, and also after being ground, from what I remember. The best coffee I've had, and unfortunately don't have anymore, was from Hawaii. Close second is local stuff.

 

[AThomasHowe]

Love iced coffee myself, very happy that we're finally getting some off the shelf ones in the UK the past year or two. Also a bit partial to coffee eLiquid in my electronic cigarette. I don't drink much hot coffee any more though, maybe the odd McDonalds/Greggs mocha. 

 

[HenriqueSousa - WebUp 24/7]

Love iced coffee myself, very happy that we're finally getting some off the shelf ones in the UK the past year or two. Also a bit partial to coffee eLiquid in my electronic cigarette. I don't drink much hot coffee any more though, maybe the odd McDonalds/Greggs mocha. 

I remember when I was working in the UK, that you could cold Star Bucks coffee at Sainsbury. For a supermarket drink it was pretty good.

But here in Portugal if you go to Star Bucks you can get an Ice Coffee from them, which is good in the summer. Maybe in the UK they don't sell it because it is a cold country.

 

[Alex U]

I have a Nespresso machine which is excellent albeit expensive to run.

I have a Nespresso UMilk which I find to be excellent   The coffee is awesome, and there are a range of capsules to choose from.  Capsules here are like $4 for a box of 10 when on special.

 

[AThomasHowe]

I remember when I was working in the UK, that you could cold Star Bucks coffee at Sainsbury. For a supermarket drink it was pretty good.

Nowadays they have a few different brand in evert Tescos I know of. Caffoionata, Starbucks, Galaxy (the chocolate), Caffe Latte and a few others. Pretty nice. ASDA has a few but most aren't as nice.

Lidls have their own brand ones too which aren't bad if you're walking past for 80p

 

[HenriqueSousa - WebUp 24/7]

Nowadays they have a few different brand in evert Tescos I know of. Caffoionata, Starbucks, Galaxy (the chocolate), Caffe Latte and a few others. Pretty nice. ASDA has a few but most aren't as nice.

Lidls have their own brand ones too which aren't bad if you're walking past for 80p

I really missed the fried chicken, that I eat every day when I was there after work.

Do you want to send me some by mail?

 

[switsys]

any brand sold by the million in the local grocery store is not a 'premium' brand to me.

So what is a 'premium' brand to you?

And if you must know, I only wrote that so @MannDude would feel better about himself, drinking that rat-poison

But REALLY, once it was considered to be a very good brand, but I'd expect y'all to be too young to remember that.

And to be fair, ANY Swedish brand is 'premium' when compared to the weak rubbish that the average North American drinks, and what comes out of those 'nespresso' pieces of sh!t machines. :lol:

 

[mikho]

So what is a 'premium' brand to you?


And if you must know, I only wrote that so @MannDude would feel better about himself, drinking that rat-poison


But REALLY, once it was considered to be a very good brand, but I'd expect y'all to be too young to remember that.


And to be fair, ANY Swedish brand is 'premium' when compared to the weak rubbish that the average North American drinks, and what comes out of those 'nespresso' pieces of sh!t machines. :lol:

You somany truths in that post that I get tears in my eyes.


Gevalia once was a premium brand, back in the day when we still only had coffee at "Konditorier", not the so-called coffee shops today.


I cry a little when I read people liking the mcDonalds coffee, using beans from the cheapest places on earth.


You asked what I consider premium coffee, most coffee brands made by hand pr in small batches. Find it more likely to have a richer smell and taste.


I do, however agree with you that most Swedish brands are premium compared to others.


The only brand I have trouble drinking is Löfbergs Lila, the only brand that you can leave on the heating sll day and it still tastes the same, eight to twelve hours later.

 

[MannDude]

I also learned that I put way too much coffee in the filter when I make it. I don't really 'measure' things when I cook or make stuff. I just sort of eye ball it. So I guess for months all my coffee has been about twice the regular strength. I'm usually pretty good about consistency when eyeballing measurements like this, but never really actually looked at the preparation guidelines or recommendations for any of the coffee I've been buying so I just dump some in and brew it.

I was visiting my Mom today as it was a holiday here in the US and she put on a pot of coffee. When I went and poured my first glass, you could see day light through the stream. She had the Foldgers out on the counter so I looked at the 'recommended' preparation and... well... I use a ton more than what is suggested at home for my fix...

I may pick up a bag of this: http://www.amazon.com/Death-Wish-Coffee-Strongest-Organic/dp/B006CQ1ZHI/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1409639181&sr=8-5 . or at least I can start cutting my normal coffee with this.

 

[MartinD]

Cutting coffee.


That's one I never thought I'd read!

 

[iClickAndHost]

Espresso! Italian style A small cup of rich flavored espresso cranks my motor in the morning. 

Illy is probably the best espresso you can buy. 

 

[MartinD]

Illy is probably the best espresso you can buy. 

I had this discussion with someone on IRC recently and you are entirely, 100%, categorically wrong. Italian != best coffee.

 

[Serveo]

Latte machiato during the day and a ristretto after dinner to top it

Love coffee the most in combination with our Dutch perpernoten (cookies)  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepernoot

 

[hostinghouston]

I have an Keurig coffee maker. I love the thing, especially as I have the My K-Cup for it which allows you to use your own coffee rather than the cups. Having said that, I like the cups too. Green Mountain is a good brand, I really like the Grove Square brand too of cappucions.

Douwe Eggberts is excellent. I first tried it at BJ's Brewhouse and went to Amazon to buy some.

 

[Dylan]

I cry a little when I read people liking the mcDonalds coffee, using beans from the cheapest places on earth.

McDonald's uses different coffee in different regions. In the northeast US, they use Newman's Own Organics, made by Green Mountain Coffee, which is a shockingly good [SIZE=13.63636302948px]Fair Trade [/SIZE]blend and not cheap at all.

In some (perhaps most) regions they definitely do use terrible coffee, but it's not quite so easy to generalize about it.

Being in the northeast US, my biggest problem is that sometimes they clearly leave the same coffee out for too long and it ends up horribly burnt. But when it's fresh, it's genuinely good and an absolute steal for a dollar.

 

[AThomasHowe]

McDonald's uses different coffee in different regions. In the northeast US, they use Newman's Own Organics, made by Green Mountain Coffee, which is a shockingly good [SIZE=13.63636302948px]Fair Trade [/SIZE]blend and not cheap at all.

In some (perhaps most) regions they definitely do use terrible coffee, but it's not quite so easy to generalize about it.

Being in the northeast US, my biggest problem is that sometimes they clearly leave the same coffee out for too long and it ends up horribly burnt. But when it's fresh, it's genuinely good and an absolute steal for a dollar.

In the UK their new-ish line of McCafé coffees are pretty good too if you just get black or white. Mocha etc is never stirred properly though.

 

[comma8]

The best coffee I've had comes from my favorite Lebanese restaurant. They make a fantastic "Turkish coffee". It's very strong.

For my daily coffee fix I use a French press with Trader Joe's dark beans.

They aren't the best beans, but for the price they are good.

I like Kivu brand beans. They are also cheap but good.

The best beans I've used are Stumptown.

My girlfriend recently bought an Italian press. It makes some deliciously strong coffee. If I had a bigger one it would be my primary choice for coffee, but I still use the French press for volume.

 

[QuadraNet_Adam]

We just got one of these bad boys



But outside of the office, I enjoy a cup of Starbucks or two.

 

[Dylan]

We just got one of these bad boys

Tip: if you like bolder coffee, try Green Mountain's Dark Magic K-Cups.