Along with a discussion of distilled spirits, we should include a discussion of coffee. Let us, for the sake of setting the bar, eliminate Folger's, Maxwell House, Sanka, and percolators. Let's also eliminate Starbucks, AKA "FourBucks" (the cost of a cup), and "CharBucks" (relating to their "roast.")

Fresh roasted, fresh ground beans. These days I'm making it in a (French) Press Pot, or Moka pot. But the local roaster has a cafe (WiFi) and the baristas pull a good shot of espresso.

No, we can't find any Ethiopian Yirgacheffe. They tell me it's not currently being imported.

will this be for drinking before or after the effects of the spirits have wron off??

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Originally posted by butchloc:
will this be for drinking before or after the effects of the spirits have worn off??

Or you can "go Irish" and mix them together.

I drink Gevalia. It's mailed to me monthly and I grind the beans before brewing. There are many choices of blends and flavors but right now I am only using the signature blend bean.
Gevalia

Eliminate Folgers and Maxwell house! MY ASS!! I have drank enough coffee to float a battleship and all that fancy crap is just that....crap!

I make a expedition trip and get Special High Mountain Albertsons Gourmet Discount Intant Coffee Crystals from Isle 3, and add a precise amount of Knudsen Coffee Creations French Vanilla or Vanilla Nut Creamer from Isle 11, with natural and artificial flavers with partially hydrogenated soybean and/or cottonseed oil, corn syrup solids,sodium caseinate(a milk derivative), dipotassium phosphate, datem, mono and diglycerides, polysorbate 60, natural and artificial flavors, carrageenan, beta-carotene color.
Use a Microwave oven , High setting for 2:20 minutes, to heat a large cup of special water from the kitchen facet, add a large rounded teaspoon full of the coffee crystals, stir, then add the knudsen creamer to you special likeing, stir and drink.
UUMMM good ! Well worth the extra effort and travel far and wide to obtain this Exquisite coffee

After all, brother TR said that Maxwell House was "good to the last drop"!!!
The Blue Mountain ( I think that's it, blue something) from Jamacia is suppposed to be good.

Maxwell House in a press it great!

I forget which Asian country (Thailand?), but in one of them coffee beans that have traveled through the intestinal tract of a cat is all the rage! Now that's hardcore!

Brett

as RVL III mentioned...

it is Jamacian Blue Mountain, and it is, in my mind, the best readily available. Certainly to my likes, a much better coffee than Kona. JBM is twice the price though.

I agree with the Char Bucks, Starbucks I do not like. It taste bitter to me. I really like the Dunkin Donuts coffee beans and already ground. It is good in a coffee maker or press.

My wife ordered the Gevalia for awhile and I did not like it either. Seattle Best is nasty too.

Good to know where the audience is coming from.

Where does OXO "come from"? You have no location called out.

I am told Dunkin Donuts coffee is rated as among the best but I have never tried it. Oddly enough, a cup of McDonald's coffee is very good, too.

Ruta Maya organic medium roast, from Costco, home ground

There is nothing like good Cuban coffee prepared correctly.

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Originally posted by Brett Adam Barringer:
I forget which Asian country (Thailand?), but in one of them coffee beans that have traveled through the intestinal tract of a cat is all the rage! Now that's hardcore!

Brett

There's another one out there where the beans are separated from the shit of the birds that have eaten them and then processed.

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Originally posted by Cliff Lyle:
I am told Dunkin Donuts coffee is rated as among the best but I have never tried it. Oddly enough, a cup of McDonald's coffee is very good, too.

McDonald's decided they want to compete with Starbucks on the coffee scene. On the West Coast they're using "Seattle's Best." But it's still pre-ground and drip brewed, just like Dunkin' Donuts.

Sometime you should try fresh ground beans, individually brewed. It's like the difference between great Scotch and wine that comes in a cardboard box.

Of all the coffees I have ever tasted The ones I liked and enjoyed most consistantly were either of the two varieties from North Sumatra and (though no connection to the president a Kenyan variety.

I find it of interesting trivia that I prefer coffee from Indonesia and Kenya, but dislike coffee colored politicians from those places.

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I've been using coffeebeandirect.com for some time now. I usually buy 15# at a time, whole bean, and it lasts a few months. The costa rican tirrazu is on of our faves. The cost is <$6 a pound, and to me is all that. Period. Starbux is 80's and Peets is now. Spendy though. I like Caribou, it's the only specialty house around here in Newark that's worth visiting. As I've aged, I prefer the light roast. More caffeine and less bitter.

Does anyone use or has used in the past, the single serving machines? Some use pods, others use special filter cups.
What brands are the best and what is your level of satisfaction?

Sorry I do not drink coffee in any form, tastes nasty to me!

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Originally posted by Cliff Lyle:
Does anyone use or has used in the past, the single serving machines? Some use pods, others use special filter cups.
What brands are the best and what is your level of satisfaction?

Watch the beans go into the roaster green. Buy them when they come out of the roaster whole and hot. Grind them just before brewing. Roasted beans more than a week old are "old beans." "Pods" and "single serve" brewers are like wine in a box.

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Originally posted by ted thorn:
Eliminate Folgers and Maxwell house! MY ASS!! I have drank enough coffee to float a battleship and all that fancy crap is just that....crap!

Sometimes MJB also.

MJB, Folger's, Maxwell House is not coffee. It's stale sawdust.

Tried all of the expensive beans from the gormet shop and settled on 8 oclock 'French Roast ground to fine at home.
Never found a reason to change.

Jim

I have tried 8 o'clock coffee and enjoy it quite well. Like many, I grind my beans at home and belive it offers a much more flavorful cup of coffee.

I just buy Walmart's store-brand Colombian (coffee, that is) and brew it until it starts to walk across the kitchen.

for Christ's sake, just get a simple coffee maker



and don't screw around.

Tchibo, it is German I believe and some grocery stores in States carry that - like Wegmans.

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8 oclock 'French Roast ground to fine at home.

Toss it loose in a cup, add boiling water?

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Originally posted by someoldguy:
I just buy Walmart's store-brand Colombian (coffee, that is) and brew it until it starts to walk across the kitchen.

Works for me!!

Cliff I do use the single serving Keurig coffee system. Simply pop in a serving of your choice and you're on the way. I also use a local provider of mountain spring water for this device. I have found that the Green Mountain Lake and Lodge and the Caribou Sumatra Extra Bold are my favorites. You can get any kind of tea or coffee imaginable with this system. When you register the Keurig then they send you some complementary with your first order. Terrific!

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Posted 11 January 2010 21:1
Cliff I do use the single serving Keurig coffee system. Simply pop in a serving of your choice and you're on the way.

Probably shoots factory loaded ammo, too.

YUP...no grinding or dipping your own!!

Thanks for the information Kudu. I may give it a try. Are you aware of any way to use other coffees without the pods?

Cliff I'm not aware of any other way to use coffee in the Keurig except those pods that are designed for it. Keurig is on top on that market right now but I bet LOTS of competition is on the way. If you get a Keurig try the Mandarin spiced tea.

I am a old fart but the USGI issue coffee was damn good. I do not want to get into any tales of the "jack of the dust" or that a CPO has a coffee mug glued to his hand. I will say this that I have burned the hell out of my lips on a stainless canteen cup at 0230 hr more times than I can remember. A Camel unfiltered tasted mighty good with the coffee.

Jim bless you for your service. I cannot imagine how cold you must have been.

In Louisiana, especially South Louisiana, good coffee, like good food is a tradition. Off the shelf Community Dark Roast makes a really good cup of coffee. For an acquired taste there is coffee with chicory, a regional favorite, especially as cafe a'lait at the Cafe du Monde in New Orleans. When I was stationed at Ft Lewis in Tacoma, way back when Starbucks was still confined to the Pike's Place Market, Community would ship us a monthly care package. When properly brewd it makes a rich, smooth cupa' coffee and it doesn't taste over roasted like Starbucks. My 2 cents

Jerry Liles

It's all bullsh*t unless you use distilled water.
My coffee maker grinds the beans right into the filter and brews.
La-te-do-da...

If I use tap water it sucks. BTW, the tap water tastes great by itself but makes crap for coffee or tea.