[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Coffee (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 3/19/2008 7:21:46 PM EDT
| What is your favorite brand of coffee? Liquid or powder creamer preference? Also, do those metal coffee filters ever wear out, or are they a lifetime filter? |
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www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=659825 ...on a related note... |
Thick and black. Some of the best coffee I have ever had was with ME folks. Turkish coffee Use to make a pot of coffee with pre packaged commercial "coffee in fiilterbags". Put two of the bags in the filter apparatus (tight fit), and an extra bag in the pot to steep, as the brew flowed into the pot. Heaven. Best coffee stateside would be from a distributor in Manchester NH. Found it |
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I drink a lot of coffee. A lot. Black. Whoever invented decaf should have gotten a Nobel Prize. Or some kind of prize. A real big, important prize of some kind. That's what he should have gotten. A major award. Yep. It was probably Juan Valdez's cousin. I like to imagine that his name was Pedro, but that he didn't have a burro but rather a wagon of some sort, filled with, I don't know, scientific coffee equipment and such. With this and his trusty machete he'd roam through the jungles down in Bolivia or Guatemala or wherever, braving wild animals, spiders as big as your head, fer de lances, the occasional cannibalistic lost civilization and so on in order to find new and improved ways of bringing the gift of coffee, particularly decaf, to the white man in the northern hemisphere. I mean, that's the way I picture it in my head and, you know, imagination. Yeah, I think about stuff like that. I usually drink coffee while I'm thinking about it, too.* *O.k., so Bolivia and Guatemala are - barely - in the northern hemisphere, but that doesn't change the gist of what I imagine Pedro doing. Oh, and he gets a lot of senoritas during his adventures as well. There's little doubt of that. Senoritas who like coffee. |
I know who you're talking about but I can't remember the name offhand... The best coffee I've ever had was in Rio De Janeiro, Brasil. Absolutely a different beverage than what we get here in the states, even if you grind your own imported beans. A stunning drink if you're lucky enough to experience it. The second best coffee I've ever had was was Cuban coffee in Miami. Very-very close to Brasillian.... |
i'm in the Caribou Coffee camp. Starbucks overroasts their beans so they're burnt. And as a side note, for those who like more caffeine in their coffee, drink lighter roasts. The darker the roast, the less caffeine in it. |
Savagery!
Barbarism!
| In the past year, I've become a real fan of Yuban Organic coffee. Zero bitterness, very smooth, and sells here for around $3.90 a can. They try and promote the "green friendly" element of it, blah, blah... That aside, a very good cup of coffee that's surprisingly cheap. |
FTMFW!!!! |
Add Chicory. It's all I can stand to drink anymore. If coffee doesn't have chicory, I have to be really desperate to drink it. |
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Paper filters trump metal filters. Keep your coffee brewing equipment clean. At the minimum grind the beans fresh right before you make coffee. Coffee can be kept as a houseplant, but I have yet to get any beans. You can brew better coffee at home than you can purchase. It appears Echo_Hotel has consumed more than the LD50 for caffeine and lived to tell the tale. |
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Lucky enough to live here in Portland, and able to buy Stumptown coffee (the best) for home On the go, I try for Dutch Brothers, or as a last resort, the dreaded Starbucks. I normaly only drink two cups in the morning. A little cream, no sugar. I do make some French Market or Cafe du Monde NOLA style coffee at home if having a nice dinner or crave a real cafe au lait (not what they make here!!) with beignets, yumm!! Flyingrhino |
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Preground coffee is nasty to the highest order. It's a flavorless chemical cocktail that requires stuff like formaldehyde to "keep it fresh". No thanks. Buy your beans from a local roaster and grind them right before you brew. It doesn't take that much extra effort and a cheapo bean grinder is like $15. If a bean has been roasted and is older than 30 days, it's stale. Period. The oils that provide the rich flavors of a freshly roasted bean start to break down immediately when it's ground. Within a couple hours, ground coffee has lost as much as 1/2 of the flavor. Additionally, the average price difference of freshly roasted gourmet coffee over nasty coffee is generally less than 50 cents per pound. Well worth it if you enjoy good coffee. I owned a successful retail gourmet coffee shop. I sold it for lots of money because of my product. |
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during the week, I drink 8 o Clock, the brown bag, whole bean, ground fresh daily on the weekends when I have time, I drink anything from terrazo to jamaican blue mtn, or sumatra mandelhing, depends on what I feel like, fresh ground whole beans made in my french press. there's no better way to do it |
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Has anyone else thought about bypassing the coffee bean all together and just using caffeine straight? 100mg caffeine + orange juice sounds pretty appealing. |
I drink Thomas Coffee. It is hands down the best commercially available coffee I have ever found. Unfortunately I am pretty sure that it's only available in the St. Louis area, but if you can find it, try some-you'll like it.
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