Pretty self explanatory. We found Counter Culture in Raleigh and haven't looked back.  I drink it hot, black, and bottomless.  I've had some from Cometeer if you're looking for a different option for a Kuerig. The stuff from Cometeer is remarkable.

Costco’ store brand. Decafe with a little reg mixed in. And a little sugar 

I like D & D Columbia - 

Offers me a little taste of the Mother Land every morning.

And that's the Dunkin Donuts part - not the Columbia 

for anyone who might be wondering.

 

Prefer it black however I have been known to 

deposit a jigger or two of Makers into that mug. 

You know, for those special occasions.

A-Jay

 

 

On the weekends my daughter will go to Starbucks and will get me a Pike Place but my weekday cup in the morning is Donut Shop.

Both are medium roast arabica bean. 

Straight no chaser for me.

There’s a coffee roaster local here to St. Louis called Kaldi’s Coffee. Amazing stuff.  No heartburn and never bitter like Starbucks usually is.  They have a lot of exotic roasts from Ethiopia, Columbia, and El Salvador as well as typical roasts. It’s not super cheap but is all we drink when we are home. 

For me, the strongest coffee taste with the lowest acid is Sumatra.  

There's a local coffee roaster, who also supplies local restaurants, or packaged Java Bean Joe's or Magnum Exotics.  

In Alaska, it's Koladi Bros coffee.  

 

I have many friends who buy green beans from Sweet Maria's and roast fresh at home.  

When I fish with my buddy Whit, he brings the coffee, and I make the breakfast tacos.  

After 27 years in the Navy, I will drink the cheapest, thickest, day-old, bottom of the pot sludge available.  Maxwell House or Folgers, usually...whichever is cheapest. 

Just now, Choporoz said:

After 27 years in the Navy, I will drink the cheapest, thickest, day-old, bottom of the pot sludge available.  Maxwell House or Folgers, usually...whichever is cheapest. 

I can relate to this - we called it Mid-Watch Mud

Nothing like the getting that last cup in the pot before going on watch at 4 am.

You know the one, it's been baking in there with the burner on high

for so many hours that it's more like a by product of coal tar than a cup a Joe.

But it's good.

Thank You for your Service

A-Jay

 

 

 

JFG. Bitter and hot, please add nothing

 

mid watch mud sounds nice haha

I drink the cheap coffee my wife buys from Aldi. I call it Columbian Dirt Tea. LoL

Pete's, usually Major Dickason, black.  I prefer a French press using fresh grounds, but also have a Bunn-o-Matic that makes a pot faster than I can grind the beans, so that gets used most in the morning.

 

We have some pretty good local roasters, but I'm gonna try Tony Hawk's son's place soon: https://steelmillcoffee.com/ for beans.

I prefer French Roast but will drink other flavors out of necessity.

 

Breakfast blends and folgers and dunkin donuts and the standard run of the mill flavors taste more like colored water to me now.

 

Black only.  There's no reason to ruin the coffee by adding cream, sugar, or other flavoring to it.

 

Growing up, there always seemed to be a pot of coffee brewing.  My Mother drinks it like a fish, all day long.  I first tried it at age 13 and thought it tasted like crap.  But after you keep drinking it, you learn to like it and simply consume it every morning like its second nature.

1 hour ago, Choporoz said:

After 27 years in the Navy, I will drink the cheapest, thickest, day-old, bottom of the pot sludge available

 

1 hour ago, A-Jay said:

I can relate to this - we called it Mid-Watch Mud

Nothing like the getting that last cup in the pot before going on watch at 4 am.

The period of time I worked over-night shift at SAC HQ, we called it 'Midnight Wakeup'...you almost have to spoon it out of the pot - but it kept us going.

 

Now - MJB French Roast or Folgers Black Silk - whichever one the store has on sale that week. Still go through a pot a day.

I'm the only one in my house that drinks coffee so I usually just do the Keurig thing.  I like Folgers, McDonalds, and DD coffee.

My neighbor's father's a wholesale coffee distributor, and so after my neighbor has board meetings, he usually brings me 5-10 lbs. of whatever is left over his dad gave him. I buy a bottle of his dad's favorite scotch every once in a while as a thanks.  The one I like best is called Morning Warrior.  Recently, his dad has been having some health issues, and I haven't been getting the coffee, so I've been buying the Black Rifle stuff by subscription.  I like the Just Black pretty well.  I'm a just coffee, nothing in it.  On the rare occasion I get coffee out, Dunkin' makes the my favorite.

Community Dark Roast with a little cane sugar

 

 

   I've been spoiled. In 1975, I went to the Expo 75 in Okinawa, Japan. The Brazilian pavilion had a coffee urn, and a man was giving out little shots of coffee to visitors. I have never tasted anything like that since, and like I said, it spoiled me for coffee.

   Of the stuff that I've had to drink since, Sumatra is tolerable. And yes; no cream, no sugar, no flavorings, etc. Good coffee and good whiskey are taken straight. What you do with bad coffee and bad whiskey is entirely up to you; anything goes. 

   I told you I was a cantankerous old SOB, didn't I?       jj

I’ve been getting auto deliveries of kcups from the black rifle coffee co for a while now.  A bit expensive, but I like giving these guys my money. 

I switch it up, usually dark though and always french press, organic and fair trade. I add half a teaspoon of pure maple syrup and a thimblefull of raw milk. Perfect. 

1 hour ago, Nelson Delaney said:

I’ve been getting auto deliveries of kcups from the black rifle coffee co for a while now.  A bit expensive, but I like giving these guys my money. 

 

Something bold, 1/2 tsp sugar and a splash of almond milk creamer.

 

I was drinking the BRCC K-cups for a while, but we switched to Tayst due to their compostable K-cups. I reached out to BRCC to see if they had any plans of offering something similar, but their response made it pretty clear they're not interested. I like supporting veteran-owned businesses, but I'm also worried about the millions of little plastic pods winding up in landfills.  

 

When we make a full pot, which is typically weekend mornings, it's Peet's "Major Dickenson Blend"

 

 

I've never really acquired the taste for coffee and ive tried alot. My girlfriend got a nespresso for Christmas and I had a cup the other day. It was ok with the creamer mixed in. Just ok. The only reason I would drink coffee is the caffeine boost but I have alot of energy naturally...I don't drink tea..maybe a couple sodas a week...almost never an energy drink.

 

5 minutes ago, Stasher1 said:

but I'm also worried about the millions of little plastic pods winding up in landfills.  

One reason I'll never go to K-Cups. Our recycling people tell us flat out - no K-Cups...even if they're labeled 'Recyclable'.

7 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

One reason I'll never go to K-Cups. Our recycling people tell us flat out - no K-Cups...even if they're labeled 'Recyclable'.

You can get a metal mesh filter cup and put regular coffee in it. We have a normal sized one for the regular coffee maker. Used grounds go in the compost or tossed out the back door into the garden, no trash generated.

 

3 minutes ago, Michigander said:

You can get a metal mesh filter cup and put regular coffee in it. We have a normal sized one for the regular coffee maker. Used grounds go in the compost or tossed out the back door into the garden, no trash generated.

 

That'd require buying a new coffee maker - my Proctor-Silex drip works just fine. I also get the unbleached filters - so filter and grounds go in the compost heap together.