Do you like the taste of coffee
Yes. Black.
Actually didn't start drinking coffee until I was 35. Don't recall the circumstances, but did decide up front that if I was going to drink coffee I was going to drink COFFEE, not some coffee-flavored warmed-over milkshake. Fortunately, my father was getting into roasting then, and was well-versed on how to make a
proper cup o joe.
I also started drinking beer around the same time. Basically got started in Munich, where beer is made
right (world's oldest food purity laws mandate only four ingredients to beer, and reject pasturization).
I mention the latter as they both suffer the same problem: in the USA, the common forms of coffee and beer, well, suck. In being homoginized for mass consumption by millions, the popular products have been reduced to their lowest common denominator. The actual good stuff can't be produced consistently in mass quantities; most corporations & customers value consistency over quality. Ergo, coffee is "French roasted" (i.e.: borderline charcoal) into a tasteless bitter goo, and beer is carbonated yeast waste, which the masses have been taught is "good".
Upshot is I've been exposed to good coffee and good beer, and like both for their appealingly non-sweet complex flavors. Folgers and Bud are perfect examples of why people think they don't like either drink (they shouldn't if they're drinking crud) and don't understand why people do. Let me make you a good cup of quality black coffee, and take you to a proper Bavarian bar, and maybe you'll change your mind.
