Coffee Survey (Thought it fitting since this was the Coffee Lounge)

Dark roast, freshly ground, very strong, black, no sugar.

No Dunkin Doughnuts or Starbucks, please.

Lew

I drink this brand I can only get on the web, it’s called Prebica; I have only found it served by several restaurants. It is an excellent dark roast coffee. I do drink Starbucks, but only when someone else is buying it and has a gun to my head.

-- "You get what you inspect, not what you expect"

Yuban original. Ground coffee beans and water. If you add anything else, its a soda pop.

-- Bill - If I knew GRANDKIDS were so much fun I would have had them first.

I’m with lew! but i add ice in the summer…..

skeez

-- hey honey! watch this!

Never have been a coffee drinker. Love how it smells, can’t stand the taste.

-- Check out my new website! http://www.blakeweberwoodworking.com

Black with sugar. Surgar makes it taste better.

-- Brian, Lebanon PA, If you aren’t having fun doing it, find something else to do.

maxwell house at home, Folgers at work with a little sugar and creamer. can drink it black on occasion.

-- Jim in Cushing Oklahoma

Fresh ground Starbucks dark and bold, brewed at home in the morning. Starbucks on the way to work. Starbucks between 1 and 2, and then I brew another pot of Starbucks late afternoon. They may be closing some stores around the country but probably not any within a 60 mile radius of my house. Black, strong, hot and frequent.

-- My favorite piece is my last one, my best piece is my next one.

Tim Hortons is the fave up here in Canada.
I’m looking at a proper brewer and some decent coffee now as I only drink a bit and it has to be good or its really bad.
I have almost completely switched to a brand of Green Tea from China.
No additives ( cream or sugar and delicious once your tastbuds are trained.)
A votre son Gout!

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

I’ll drink all kinds, but my favorite is a Guatemala Antigua, medium roast. I love to mess around with roasting my own. I have a little small-batch roaster and buy the green beans over the net. It’s amazing how one can “adjust” the same coffee beans to a multitude of flavors by changing the roasting time by just a few minutes in either direction. Then, of course, the grind makes a difference too.

There are 100’s of kinds of coffee beans available, and you can roast coffee beans with any hot-air corn popper…so give it a try. You won’t believe how un-exciting the canned coffee tastes after you’ve spoiled yourself with this little side hobby!

-- woodinit Prov. 3:5&6

Folgers Black Silk. Black, no sugar. Drink a whole pot through out the day.

-- Tim -- http://tmuli.com

Over here in Malaysia I enjoy Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts coffee. Of course, I’m not picky. I’ll brew and drink just about anything – instant, decaf, whatever.

-- Eric at http://adventuresinwoodworking.com

12 shots of wimpy espresso (i.e. decaf) over ice . . . black . . . yummy.

-- Even if to be nothing more than a bad example, everything serves a purpose.

Its a Tim’s double double for me eh!. Other than that it is the hot black stuff they serve here in the canteen…I think its coffee ;-)

-- ...it's rennovation time!!!

Kenya AA with Tanzania Peaberry and Ethiopian Harrar as second and third choices (beans – ground just before brewing); Yuban as the “Crap, we’re out of coffee!” pantry backup. Then there are two vacuum sealed cans of Café du Monde Chicory Coffee in the basement in case of tornados or ”Nuke-U-Lar” attack. I’ll take mine with enough whitening agent to yield a saddle brown cup of Joe, or black’s good too. If involved in a forced march, would be willing to chew grounds.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Thomas Premium Blend from St.Louis (they sell it locally where I am) and Cafe Du Monde’s coffee and chickory. I do like mine diluted with the white stuff and some sugar, tho… I’m with Doug- I’d chew the grounds if I had to. I don’t do Starbucks anymore, too expensive. I’d rather buy a tool…

-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17) †

tripple shot venti caramel machiato with extra caramel. a shit load of half and half with a half a gallon of shugar. it does wonders in the morning and should not be drunk within 8 hours of bedtime.
i hate the taste of caffiene but love the effects. i do like chi tea…..

-- i can do all things through christ who strengthens me

I’m with Blake. I love the smell when walking down the asile in a store, but I hate the taste.
But I love the smell of cigarette smoke.

I think that coffee, like alcohol is an acquired taste. Neither one I wish to acquire.

-- It's better to have people think you're stupid rather than open your mouth and remove all doubt.

The darker the better, with no added pollutants.

no coffee for me, i do like the coffee frappes that they have at dunkin donuts though. i think they’re coffee coolates or something like that.

LavAzza.( http://www.espressozone.com )Found it when I was in Chicago last summer. Italian roast. Love it strong, with Splenda and whipping cream. I doctor it because my wife loves it so strong the spoon stands up in it. Former floor nurse working the graveyard shift.

-- Makin' Sawdust!!!

ZINGERMANNS, hands down best coffee ever. made by the great folks of ann arbor michigan.

-- Roper - Master of sawdust-

At work it’s Maxwell House cuz it’s FREE. At home, it’s Cuban Coffee made from Cafe’ Bustelo (100% Arabico). Only one problem with it. Drink two 10 ounce cups on Saturday morning (not those woossy little sippers) and you might be able to go to sleep late Sunday evening. I cheat when I make my Cuban Coffee by adding the sugar to the water. It’s almost Ebony dark and Very Sweet! SLURP.

-- I love the smell of sawdust in the morning....

After 22 years in the Navy, I drink any brand that is strong and black. Temp range from boiling to ice cold.

-- Growing older but not up!

Nescaffe Gold is good enough for me lol

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When I get up to the North Shore of Lake Superior (the Norwegian Riveria) I try to pick up a package of Arko coffee. Good stuff.

Kenyan AA – I’ve been to the coffee plantations in Kenya.

-- Randy, Rustic Artisan, a family tradition. (No PM's - auto-deleted.) - "I am a seeker, not a follower."

Sierra Nevada

-- MARK IN BOB, So. CAL

im english so its got to be a nice english cup of tea im affraid lol

andy

-- cut it saw it scrap it

Mmmmmm, Coffee….let’s see, I used to drink Peete’s fresh ground whole bean in either French Roast or Italian Roast, but at about 15 bucks a lb, I soon had to ditch that habit. Being a bicyclist, I had delusions of being like Lance. I guess he can afford it and I can’t. These days, when I can catch Stabucks at Wally World on sale I sometimes buy that. But mostly, it’s been 8 O’clock Coffee in regular and French Roast, whole bean of course.

-- Carl Rast, Pelion, SC

A Vitoria long black expresso. One a day keeps the cobwebs away. Beats Starbucks 10:1.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

I don’t know for sure mski but if you are talking about the Sierra Nevada I think you are we brew every drop of it about 3 miles from where I am sitting.

Cheers!

-- Scott - Chico California http://chicowoodnut.home.comcast.net

YEA YEA Chicowoodnut, go ahead rub it in, It’s about 350 miles from where I’m sitting.
I have a brew setup, very much fun, trouble is you got gallons and gallons of brew sitting around.
I think that’s where the saying came from, ( there’s trouble brewing!!!!)

-- MARK IN BOB, So. CAL

I-I-I-I l-l-l-l-l-like m-m-m-my c-c-c-coffee l-l-l-like I l-l-l-like m-m-m-m-my women. S-s-s-s-strong, s-s-s-s-sweet, hot and w-w-w-with a n-n-nice t-t-t-tan!

-- Bob Vila would be so proud of you!

Costco, fresh right out of the roaster, the Costco here roasts it right there in the store. It’s still warm as your paying for it. They have a good selection of blends. It’s too hard to pick just one.
I went from about 10 pots/day down to just one per day.

-- Ed - Milan, IN

I don’t drink coffee. Dr. Pepper only. “The sweet nectar of life!”

-- Randy, Tupelo, MS ~ May I become more like the Master Carpenter every day.

Coffee…yuk!

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

I only drink Gevalia. Ok, I admit, I’m something of a coffee snob. http://www.gevalia.com/

-- Festool4

OK when I run out of Sierra Nevada (it comes alredy brewed) I recently got what they call a coffee press for fathers day, I use it out on the road.
If you want the best tasting coffee get one of these gagets, $5.99, I used the cheap Kroger brand coffee from the grocery, tasted better than $Starbigbucks$, there is even a little tan foam on top, but the taste is Nonpareil, I think it has to do with the temperature and grounds soaking in the water.

-- MARK IN BOB, So. CAL

I buy fresh roasted beans in bulk at Specialty Java. No affiliation just a satisfied customer. I prefer medium and dark roasts.

-- Paul D, Atlanta GA

L-L-L-Lumber J-Ja-Jocks!

(My wife thinks I drink too much coffee as it is now!)

-- Bob Vila would be so proud of you!

My favorite is Tanzanian Peaberry. I know…doesn’t much sound like a type of coffee…more like something you get at a fruit smoothie place. My second favorite is Free coffee. Like what we have here at work :).

-- -Mohkev

I’m not a Tim Hortons fan.
Do not like Starbucks.
I actually really enjoy the coffee from Irving.

I do my best to buy fair trade and organic and will go out of my way to purchase it. Irving actually have an organic coffee for the same prices as their reqular stuff – http://www.irvingoil.com/pr_retail/rsr.asp

I’m also quite fond of the stuff that these guys make – http://www.justuscoffee.com

And I love this tea as well – http://www.presidentschoice.ca/FoodAndRecipes/Organics/ProductDetails.aspx/id/10723/name/PCOrganicsTeaSingleEstateGreen/catid/105

-- The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them

Gevalia

-- WOOD/DON (...one has the right to ones opinion but not the right to ones own facts...)

Folger’s Columbian.
LOML says I’m a food snob. I tell her I’m not so much a snob, I just know what I like.
I certainly don’t ‘look down’ on others for their personal choice. I drink what I like.
No ‘flavors’, no cream, no sugar. Hot, black, and strong! Fill ‘er up~

-- CaptnA - "When someone hurts you, write it in the sand so the winds of forgiveness will scatter the memory... "

Fulgers dark roast, little cream , little sugar . And HOT.

-- Ageingwood - artsplae1@msn.com No time , retired

I too like to go the fair trade and organic route. there’s a local roaster that I like. I spent the past couple years looking for “my brand” Don’t like Starbucks at home, ok when I’m out though, and a lot of the supermarket options are merely passable. I used to drink a TON of coffee in college, a semester in France helped me cut back the sugar from “a little coffee with your sugar” to “regular”. Now that coffee is only a sometimes thing, I don’t mind paying a little more for a really good bag of beans.

I’ll order espresso at a restaurant, and let company make the coffee at home – I’m told I make it strong. Normally, I’ll take it black with sugar (and/or stevia if I can get it) Iced as a mocha with sugar and cream, but not often. In the wintertime, with a splash of Bailey’s! (it’s good in cocoa too).

after college I loved Green Mountain, especially their Irish Coffee, not available as decaf though – except through Gevalia, which is quite good.
Once for a test, my parents switched to half-caff, and I had a headache for a week and didn’t know why.
eventually i switched to decaf, – and felt better because of it. Now that I don’t need the caffEEn to function, and since I don’t have it everyday, I’ll drink regular or a good quality decaf coffee.

There’s a roaster near me that has a blend I like South American/African. Except for Kona, I don’t care for most of the polynesian coffees – Alton Brown described the world of coffee best musically. Latin America – Pop, Africa – Jazz, Polynesia – Funk.

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

I spend around $80 a month on Sumatra, Komoda Dragon and this time of the year Gazebo. It’s the only non Asian/Pacific coffee I will drink…IMHO they are the only beans that you can make stong, without being bitter….just me though…

Tried roasting some 30 years ago and worked up a good roast….no time now….. Coffee is one of my spurges in life….

Make mine milked and sugared. Blond and sweet…....

-- Jimmy

I get funky types when I travel and bring them home. I am finishing up some Guatemalan and next will be a pack from Brazil. As long as it is well roasted and dark.. I can dig it.

-- making sawdust....

Whole bean only. Jamacian Blue Mountain and Hawaii Kona alot of the time. Other Dark Roast from the local store. I forget it’s name. Old Town or something like that. I always have my milk and or cream and at times use the Starbucks Mocha powder. I go thru a full pot a day which takes me through a gallon, gallon and a half a week.
Grind, burr that coffee up. ummm so good.

-- Jerry, Set in the foothills of the Smokey's

Mmmm coffeeeee…. HOT and UNADULTERATED!!!!

Seattle’s Best – Henry’s Blend is my first choice for my morning cup(s), when I’m at home. Unfortunately, they’re now owned by $tarbuck’$. :(

My second choice would be ‘cowboy’ coffee, i.e. boiled in a speckled enamel pot, on a Coleman stove. This usually means that I’m camping/fishing, and the scenery more than makes up for any deficiency in taste. :)

-- There is nothing in the world more dangerous, than a woodworker who knows how to read a micrometer...