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... and not a single mention of hatracks. Oops.

I'm gifting it to Bob.


I think he really wants it.

Back on track. I mostly drink Peet's. I can appreciate the differences in quality and freshness between coffees, but as long as it doesn't taste watery or overly bitter, I'll drink it. I prefer it dark. My wife and I cut back a bit so we put the coffee maker away. We now make our coffee two cups at a time with a small cone filter that sits right on top of the cups. I never measure, just eyeball the amount in the filter and pour recently boiled water over it.

We prefer light-medium roast. ~4T coffee for 2 mugs (ie ~24 oz water), ground in our burr grinder. We've (surprisingly) been really liking the 8 O'clock beans from the grocery store. Previously, we'd been buying Caribou beans. Their Columbian is really good.

Add a ton of sugar and a gallon of cream, and I'm happy.

After dinner one Christmas, years ago, my Grandma (who was in her late eighties at the time) watched me make a cup of coffee. I poured a generous amount of cream and copious amounts of sugar and Grandma remarked, "You're not making coffee, you're making syrup."

She drank her's black.

I just like a little Half & Half in my coffee. The worst is having other peoples coffee and they serve you milk with their coffee or when they say we don't have Half & Half, offer you whipping (35%) cream...uh, no thanks, I'll just drink it black instead.

I call it melted coffee ice cream.

Absolutely! Only half and half will do, although lately I've found the 5% cream is pretty good. The 5% seems to be available only in Canada; I haven't found it in New York.

It's very annoying if you ask for cream and you're handed milk, or worse, that awful skim stuff.

Lately I prefer the Ethiopian Yurgachef beans, which I grind as needed. Don't refrigerate the beans, which dries them out.

Sugar ruins coffee, although I admit I used it until I was in my 30s.

I use a Krupps drip coffee maker with a reusable mesh filter. As a backup, I keep a pack of the Starbucks Instant Columbian, which is amazingly good, the only instant coffee I've found that's drinkable. It's expensive, but worth it if you happen to run out of beans.

Cheers,
Alan

Espresso here. One quad shot with some milk every morning, or I go through withdrawals.

I usually get my beans from Paradise Roasters. The Espresso Nuevo is the one I generally buy. They roast it and ship it out within a day of ordering, and send it in a flat rate box. http://www.paradiseroasters.com/categories/Coffee/Espresso/

I am currently trying a few different beans from Stumptown Roasters. They are OK, but nothing to write home about.

If you guys have not tried using an Aropress, you really ought to. Way better than a french press, quick and cheap. http://www.amazon.com/Aerobie-AeroPress-...5691&sr=8-1

What??
No Kopi Luwak drinkers?