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When I drink coffee, I like to taste it. That's why I buy the gourmet expensive stuff. My ex-wife, she bought the coffee.
+1, if you're filtering your coffee at all that is.
Last time I didn't have coffee was a three day stretch a couple weeks ago. I spent most of that time trying to massage headaches out of my skull.
and that Jenkees beat gets
When I drink coffee, I like to taste it. That's why I buy the gourmet expensive stuff. My ex-wife, she bought the coffee.
I don't have a traditional roaster. What I do have you can own too for around 20-30 bucks on Amazon. All you need is a air popcorn popper. Then you need green beans as well, but you can get those several places. The place I get mine is called (as I stated earlier) Sweet Marias. (www.sweetmarias.com). That site also has instructions on roasting to help you until you get comfortable. Trust me, you will burn the first few batches most likely, but even fresh roasted slightly burned beans are awesome.
Not only is it better tasting coffee, but it's also cheaper. Most varieties will run you between 5-6 bucks a pound. You can find it cheaper at other places which I have tried but the product was not nearly as good.
Dang, I think I'm starting to sound like a commercial.
Just get yourself an air popcorn popper, a metal colander (which you use to cool the beans), and find a source for green beans and you are set. Fresh roasted coffee, not roasted coffee in a bag.
huh. that's interesting. thanks.
Seems like a lot of work. Dunkin Donuts is usually closed when I want coffee, but Whataburger is pleasingly consistent. I don't drink much more than a cup of of regular because I get heart palpitations.
$tarbuck$ sux. I go to a little place down the street or McDonalds when I feel the 'must have outside coffee' urge.
yeahh, I love it, my day cannot begin without my morning coffee, i need coffee to get awake, to be focused, otherwise, without coffee im a big zombie in the morning.
A good espresso, cappuccino, nice cold Frappe for in the summers or just an ordinary coffee with a spoon of sugar.
Ignorance is a form of snobbery, but by all means, keep choking down that Folgers full of nasty canephora beans, and leave the tasty arabica ones for us "snobs".
funny to hear the bandwagon line of "starbucks sucks". I bet you tried one cup of their coffee, thought it was too strong (or bitter as many amateurs say). weaklings.
EXTRA BOLD: ITTALIAN ROAST, SUMATRA, KOMODO DRAGON for the win.
this is good also. Has a natural chocolate hint to it.
http://www.starbucks.com/coffee/p100..._sanani&num=01
Moral of the story: don't go have coffee with CC.
I don't hate Starbucks coffee, just their prices. I buy a 2.5 lb. bag of Costco Costa Rican French Roast coffee beans, and a bag of Hawaiian Turbinado sugar. I make 4 shots of Espresso and warm 1 cup of HEB Mootopia 2% milk and use 1 tsp of my sugar, and combine it all into an old school Starbucks Venti carafe of a size they don't even MAKE anymore.
I have never had a cup of coffee in my life, but a lot of my favorite stout beers with dark roasted malts have flavors compared to it. Is it really at all similar?
That's the one I've got now and it's my absolute favorite. Chocolate, but not sweet. Sucks that it's seasonal, though. I usually get the Sumatra when this one isn't available.
Grande' 2 honey non-fat latte'
I tried the iced coffee from mcds but I felt weird afterwards. It's like, I got nauseous for 30 mins, felt like throwing up, my heart is racing and I cant focus my eyes. Im not saying its the coffee from mcds but do any of you get that kind of feeling after drinking coffee specially if its a strong one?
Tea.
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I don't immediately think "beer" every time I have a cup of joe, but they do share that unique roast flavor. It's a vague connection, but the best way I could explain it is to say that they both taste like water that's been steeped in carcinogenic material. The difference is that in beer, you can also taste the fermented graininess of whatever malt was roasted, whereas coffee beans don't taste fermented or grainy at all and have more of an inherit acidic quality to them.
Plus, they both linger on your palette; even if you attribute that effect in beer to how hoppy it is, the roast flavor of the malts tends to stick around too. Along those same lines, they're both described in terms of "body" which I guess would imply that they both have a deep and subtle weight to them that suggests a litany of other tastes that may (or may not) compliment one another.
+1 I'm fine with their blends, if not with paying what they charge for them.
I have however gotten ty lattes from Starbucks, but that's more a statement on bad baristas than it is on bad coffee.
Whatever my husband makes. Right now it's Entemann's (sp?) cinnamon coffee cake (or something like that). Then I throw in some powdered cappuccino mix, an ounce of DaVinci sugar free caramel syrup & toss it all in a drink mixer for about 15 seconds. Yummy..."Breakfast of Champions"
That sounds really, really good. Where do you get the Entemann's???Whatever my husband makes. Right now it's Entemann's (sp?) cinnamon coffee cake (or something like that). Then I throw in some powdered cappuccino mix, an ounce of DaVinci sugar free caramel syrup & toss it all in a drink mixer for about 15 seconds. Yummy..."Breakfast of Champions"
i don't have any caffeine before noon. after that it's one cup of tea.
I've been off of caffeine for 6 months now and I don't miss it one bit. I went through a grueling two week withdrawal, but I haven't had a headache since then. I had headaches all the time when I wouldn't get my 2 cups of coffee.
caffeine withdrawl is a . not fun
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