Author Topic: Coffee drinkers: have you always liked coffee, or was it an acquired taste? (Read 21098 times)

Balog · « **Reply #50 on:** September 17, 2008, 09:50:08 AM »

I started not liking it at all, then progressed to "it's great with lot's of cream and suger" to my present state. Good coffee I take black, crappy stuff I still adulterate. I find hot cocoa powder is a good additive to sub-optimal brew.

Manedwolf · « **Reply #51 on:** September 17, 2008, 09:57:01 AM »

It could be an acquired taste, I guess, at that.

Yerba Mate is, for sure. I drink that the traditional way, leaves stuffed into a gourd or mug, hot water poured over them, drink through a metal filter straw.

coppertales · « **Reply #52 on:** September 17, 2008, 10:02:16 AM »

I drink two large cups of black coffee when I first get up, WARNING, DO NOT GET BETWEEN ME AND THE COFFEE MAKER WHEN I FIRST GET UP. Then, I drink gunpowder green tea the rest of the day. I can have a cup of strong black coffee then go right to sleep. Try Cuban coffee sometime....chris3

Manedwolf · « **Reply #53 on:** September 17, 2008, 10:03:46 AM »

I used to get cafe Cubano from a cart vendor on the way to any 8am classes at UM.

That's coffee x100000000.

ArfinGreebly · « **Reply #54 on:** September 17, 2008, 10:29:37 AM »

Coffee? Yuck! Bitter. Nasty.

Shift work, USAF, radio site. Coffee was all there was. Plenty of sugar and powdered ~~plaque~~ cream. Stayed awake. Tasted nasty, though.

Left the USAF. Went overseas as a volunteer. More shift work. More coffee. Learned to tolerate the stuff.

Sweden, 1974, first decent coffee I'd ever had. Boiled in a pan. Smooth, not bitter.

Denmark, 1976, having dinner at the in-laws, there was an after-dinner gathering and coffee was served. I told the lady serving, "cream & sugar." Several minutes later, she was doing the rounds with a large silver tray full of coffee cups. There were only two "white" cups, so I took the one closest to me. Excellent! Outstanding! Just as I was about to ask our hostess what kind of coffee this was (Gevalia, as it turned out), someone on the other side of the room demanded to know why there was sugar in his coffee.

I'd never actually realized I didn't like sugar in my coffee until that night. I no longer take any kind of sweetener in my coffee -- can't stand it.

My late sister introduced me to Jamaican Blue Mountain. Wish I could afford to drink that.

I drink coffee now with plenty of cream or half & half.

Starbucks sucks.

I have had truly excellent, fabulous, to-die-for coffee maybe half a dozen times in my life.

Perhaps this is what Hell is. You've had a taste of heaven, so you'll know what you're missing, then subjected to an unending supply of bitterness that only smells like that Heaven stuff.

I will have to try roasting my own. I know for a fact that heavenly coffee exists, if only in an alternate dimension whose phase coincides with ours every few decades.

Meanwhile, I sip the bitterness, remembering the sweet, rich smoothness, and longing for the reappearance of the Coffee Angel.

*Sigh*

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #55 on:** September 17, 2008, 12:01:33 PM »

I note that herbal tea, chamomile, green tea, or just about anything other than regular-old Lipton tastes like dirty water. That said, Barnes&Noble sells a good tea, African Autumn. Their cafes are Starbuck's, but I'm not sure if the tea is Starbuck's, or not.

41magsnub · « **Reply #56 on:** September 17, 2008, 12:05:43 PM »

Quote from: JamisJockey on September 17, 2008, 05:40:34 AM

Quote from: AZRedhawk44 on September 17, 2008, 05:28:19 AM

I gotta second the recommendation for Dunkin Donuts coffee. They do darn good with a cup o' Joe.

Also honorable mentions:
Krispy Kreme
Einstein Brothers Bagels

Yes yes, agreed!

Also, Burger King's coffee is decent.

Burger King's coffee is still bad, it is just better than you expect from a fast food joint so it is sort of a bonus.

Headless Thompson Gunner · « **Reply #57 on:** September 17, 2008, 05:56:00 PM »

Is there any way to get into coffee roasting without dropping more than $100 on a roaster machine?

K Frame · « **Reply #58 on:** September 17, 2008, 07:14:49 PM »

Quote from: Headless Thompson Gunner on September 17, 2008, 04:56:00 PM

Is there any way to get into coffee roasting without dropping more than $100 on a roaster machine?

Yep. A good heavy cast iron pan, a fan, and a tight mesh cooling rack.

De Selby · « **Reply #59 on:** September 17, 2008, 07:42:01 PM »

Absolute best cup I ever had was at every cafe in Ho Chi Minh City....the Vietnamese are incapable of a brew that isn't fantastic.

I don't have any idea what beans they were using or where they come from, I just know that Vietnam is a coffee lover's paradise.

Fjolnirsson · « **Reply #60 on:** September 17, 2008, 08:55:16 PM »

Quote from: Mike Irwin on September 17, 2008, 06:14:49 PM

Quote from: Headless Thompson Gunner on September 17, 2008, 04:56:00 PM

Is there any way to get into coffee roasting without dropping more than $100 on a roaster machine?

Yep. A good heavy cast iron pan, a fan, and a tight mesh cooling rack.

What he said.

Though, the Fresh Roast is a very good starting machine, and runs $80 with free shipping. Comes with 8 half pound packets of coffee, too let you try different flavors.
But a lot of people use the cast iron pan method, too. Might try a popcorn popper, too. That's essentially what the Fresh Roast is.

LadySmith · « **Reply #61 on:** September 17, 2008, 11:53:04 PM »

For me, coffee was a (quickly) acquired taste.
Started when I first began working the graveyard shift. My supervisor at the time noticed I was wilting and asked if I was having a hard time adjusting. Told her I was. She said, "Here, try these" and put two pills down on my desk. I asked her what they were. She said, "Speed." I told her no thanks, I'd try coffee.

seeker_two · « **Reply #62 on:** September 18, 2008, 01:10:33 AM »