Coffee: What's your brand and how do you make it

[NightWatcher]

We've a Keurig but I can't see spending that much for each cup, plus they don't k-cup my fav brand.

So instead, I use

to brew my fav



It's nice, cheap, and strong as hell (the way I make it)

How do you take yours?

[mnhtnbb]

1. Mr. Coffee. Boring, but reliable.

I mix my coffees: half of half decaf and a caffeinated flavor. Sometimes it has
chocolate, sometimes caramel, sometimes spice flavoring.

[SecularMotion]

2. I use the same method with a Melitta #4 filter

Boil water and pour over 5-6 scoops of freshly ground coffee bean. Usually, a light roast with vanilla, chocolate, or caramel flavor that I buy out of the bulk whole bean rack at the local supermarket. Then add soy milk, no sugar.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

3. Folgers Crystals. I boil some water, pour it in a cup, and put a spoonful in.

[mockmonkey]

7. Folgers Subliminal?

"Mount and Groan"

[Gidney N Cloyd]

9. Mrs Olson would be appalled at at you...

[mockmonkey]

12. Mr Olson says

"POP!"

[Agschmid]

4. Starbucks.

Iced venti with skim and sweetener...

Only on work days, no coffee otherwise.

[Squinch]

5. I am not high maintenance about anything but my coffee:

I use Lavazza Espresso grind, make it with cinnamon in a French drip pot, and take it with homemade almond milk. (The store bought stuff is nothing like the homemade stuff. Homemade tastes like 1/2 and 1/2 only better.)

It has to be in the stainless steel thermal cup so it stays hot until the last bit.

[pokerfan]

6. Sumatra Mandheling & French Press

A variety (more or less) of the Arabica bean...

Mandheling is named after the similarly spelled Mandailing people located in North Sumatra, Indonesia. The name is the result of a misunderstanding by the first foreign purchaser of the variety, and no coffee is actually produced in the "Mandailing region". Lintong on the other hand, is named after the Lintong district, also located in North Sumatra. This is not a specific cultivar, but rather a region with a specific processing style.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coffee_varieties#Arabica_varieties

And the French Press, which allows me to control both temperature and steeping time:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_press

Coffee is serious business here in Washington State.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

25. I first encountered Sumatra Mandheling in Japan, and because of the way

Japanese writes things phonetically, I thought it was "Mandarin," as in coffee grown in China.

it wasn't until several years after I returned to the States that I found out that it was actually "Mandheling."

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

28. That's my coffee at work ... same coffee, same one-cup press.

At home, I use a clock-driven Zojorushi, so the coffee is ready when I get up, and it stays warm in the thermal carafe.

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Gotta be careful not to take the wrong coffee to work. The drip grind doesn't work so well in the press.

[surrealAmerican]

8. That stuff used to be my fall-back brand.

I'd buy it when I couldn't get my usual. I drink Pete's now, generally the Ethiopian. It's good and strong.

[UTUSN]

10. Wow, sorry to butt into a gourmet thread, just instant - but it's FOLGERS does *that* count?!1 n/t

[LadyHawkAZ]

11. Caribou Coffee in a K-Cup

With mucho cream.

[Brother Buzz]

13. Graffeo dark roast ground for paper filter

That is when I can make a pilgrimage to the joint that introduced me to dark roasted coffee forty years ago.


A trip isn't complete without eating a few fresh pro-offered beans straight from the oven; crunchy jelly beans.

[politicat]

14. Dazbog Hermitage House or Czar's Blend, or Unseen Bean's Honduras FTO by Keurig or espresso.

They're both local roasters. We like medium to light roasts, and altitude means over-roasting is really, really easy. Those are the three consistent roasts we've found.

We use the refillable inserts for the Keurig.

[elleng]

15. Cuvee, decaf,

freshly ground, Melitta 'drip.'

[nolabear]

16. Usually Peet's, drip, darkest roast I can lay my hands on.

I drink the hell out of some coffee in the mornings.

[nomorenomore08]

17. Don Francisco brand. Just sugar, no cream.

[blogslut]

18. I've gone old school

My French Press broke so, for a while, I was boiling coffee in a saucepan. Then, after realizing I liked the taste of boiled coffee, I got me one of these:



As for my brand, I found a cheap one that's fairly decent:



I had my gourmet coffee phase decades ago. I'm over it. Now, I just want it as a friend once described: Punk Rock Slag from Hell.

[fishwax]

47. I've been using a saucepan as well

I've got a cappuccino maker, but it's missing a filter cup, so until I get around to getting that replaced, I've just been boiling it. And I rather like it, truth told.

[applegrove]

19. Been making mine like you do. Only with powdered milk. Tastes okay.

[Chan790]

20. I'm fancy.

I got a flannel-filter Pyrex glass pour-over brewer and I brew my coffee into left-over glass growler bottles. Store it in the fridge and drink it sweet and light over ice.

Or if I'm lazy, I buy it already brewed.

[Vashta Nerada]

21. Dunkin' Donuts.

Either French Vanilla or Pumpkin in the coffee maker.

[steve2470]

22. 8 O'Clock coffee beans, grind em up in whirlybird, 3 sugar teaspoons and half and half

I tried French press method, and although superior, I'm too lazy to do it all the time lol Thanks to all who helped me a few years ago.

Oh well, my coffee is just fine.

eta: my old thread in the Lounge asking for coffee advice

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x9789335

[bluesbassman]

23. Yuban Dark Roast in a thermal carafe drip machine.

It's on sale a lot at Safeway, $6.99, and I just make enough for a couple cups in the carafe so it doesn't get burned tasting. Not gourmet, but it's reasonably priced and drinkable.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

24. Peace Coffee (local fair trade organic brand from a company that delivers on bicycles and electric

cars) French roast, whole bean, freshly ground, made in a Mr. Coffee.

[Populist_Prole]

26. Coffee is just a wake-up potion to me, not a beverage, and so

Chock Full 'O Nuts brewed on the stong side in my Braun, demarara sugar and Coffeemate powder. It helps me.

[azurnoir]

27. Sumatra usually Cameron's or Java Delight

which ever is on sale and a regular Mr Coffee drip pot

[B Calm]

29. Great Value Columbian

and perc'd in a Bunn Coffee Pot

[Kaleva]

30. Family Dollar Country Roast made in an old Mr. Coffee

[HappyMe]

31. Sometimes I use Chock Full O Nuts,

or a store brand, or Folgers in a Mr Coffee.

I put in some milk and sometimes add sugar.

[progressivejazzredux]

32. Peet's is the only way to go.

Peet's Sumatra. I use a good old Mr. Coffee.

[zonkers]

33. I have done the Bustelo in a filter like you. Right now I do La Llave in a 6 cup coffee press.

It too is cheap. Maybe one day, I can pay 15 a can and get all exotic. Right now, I pay 5 dollars a can -- that's less than a pound. In any case, it is the brew that pleases the house and it is readily available. It is no fun changing up coffees and having to figure out the right mix. But if I do switch brands, I am trading up.

Sometimes I like a crappy cup of thin american coffee, especially when eating a a piece of pie. That's probably just from growing up in the golden age of diners.

It ooks like you might be from FL. I lived in Miami and fell under the spell of the cortoditito. sp.? Lots of good cofee options in S. FL.

[hobbit709]

34. Usually Jamaican, sometimes Ethiopian or Yemeni

I drink a lot of coffee so Mr. Coffee in the morning, by noon the pot's empty.

[LWolf]

35. I have one of those,

used it for years, but in the last year I've been cold-brewing my coffee with one of these:



My "favorite" brand is whatever is reasonably priced, organic, free-trade, and shade grown, or whatever I can get closest to that. Currently in my carafe is this:



Peruvian sunrise blend; medium roast.

[mucifer]

36. Trader Joe's cafe pajaro (fair trade) with a regular cuisanart coffeemaker

pretty reasonable cost

[DinahMoeHum]

37. Freshly roasted decaf (fair trade usually), in bulk, whole bean. . .

. . .so I can grind it when I'm ready to have some (Krups). . .paper filter. . .brewed in a 20-year-old Mr. Coffee drip machine.

And I like to mix it as half-caf (usually caramel or coconut)

[marmar]

38. I love the concept of a Keurig, being a single guy, but it's so expensive....

My favorite brand, Dallmayr Ethiopian Crown from Germany........It's a little taste of heaven.

[Trailrider1951]

39. I, too, love Bustelo coffee

but I fix mine in a little italian espresso maker:



that I bought at Goodwill for $2

[kcass1954]

43. Mr k burns his Bustelo every morning in one of those.

I do not like coffee - never have - but I love the smell of good coffee brewing. Not so much the crap that Mr k does to his coffee. He boils it to death and it stinks up the whole house.

[Trailrider1951]

46. Oops! Maybe he leaves it too long on the fire. If he does, the pot will overheat and scorch the

coffee. Since the water moves up from the bottom tank through the grounds to the upper reservoir when it boils, the only way to burn the coffee is to leave it long enough to boil the water dry and overheat the whole pot. Once this pot ceases its petite volcano noise, the coffee is done and should be removed from the heat immediately. Perhaps you have my pot confused with a regular percolater, as shown above. The percolater does boil the coffee, and the resulting liquid contains all of the bad coffee stuff and good coffee stuff (aromatics and volatiles) have long since departed the area. I agree that this is not the way to make coffee.

[JCMach1]

40. I roast my own... I can't drink the stale stuff

any more.

[tabbycat31]

41. Depends on the day

I float between two offices so which coffee I get depends on which office I am in

When I'm in office A

Trader Joe's in the office Mr. Coffee (Peaberry blend, yum).

When I am in office B

I stop at Sheetz on the way in (no office coffee maker.


Note, I'm between housing right now and no way to make it at home. At home (when I'm not on the road) it's Wawa (how I miss my Wawa).

[lastlib]

42. 40-weight............

just enough water to get it wet, and a fork to eat it with...

[trof]

44. We have a Keurig. Gift from daughter.

It's incredibly expensive per cup.
We usually use our bulk coffee maker.
Winn-Dixie house brand is fairly (comparatively) cheap and we like it.

[RebelOne]

45. I rarely drink coffee.

But when I do, I prefer Irish coffee. Who cares what the brand is, as long as the alcohol is in it.

[Avalux]

48. Dark Italian roast whole beans, grind and brew strong with french press.

I like to taste the coffee, so no sugar or cream.

[locks]

49. Cafe DuMonde from New Orleans

The best

[Bertha Venation]

50. Caribou Mahogany/Mr. Coffee

-- with a timer! So nice to wake up, stagger to the kitchen, and have a cup right away.

[Graybeard]

51. Martinson's Traditional

Actually I will buy whatever is on sale, be it Folger's, Maxwell House, store brand etc. But my default coffee has always been Martinson's.

I use a four cup coffee maker, #2 filter and brew up a nice size mug (I guess technically 2 cups) every morning.
.

[dr.strangelove]

52. Whatever is on sale, and I like it thick enough to stand a spoon up in

I like my coffee black and strong. No milk or sugar. I prefer it bitter and hot. Even in the summer when I like iced coffee, I refuse to drink coffee you can see though.

[shanti]

53. Kirkland (Costco) French roast

Whole bean, I grind my own. It's just consistently good and I've been buying it for about 15 years now. I use a regular drip machine to make it.

[geek tragedy]

54. Anything shade-grown. Normal 20 oz coffee pot. nt

[fizzgig]

55. usually folgers in a mr. coffee

when i splurge, it's whole bean french roast or sumatran.

[noamnety]

56. I'm surprised the keurig people here

aren't getting the reusable cups and filling them yourselves. That way you get the kcup magic (whatever that is, I don't have one so I don't know), and you still pay the normal per pound coffee price without the markup.

Me, I use a french press and usually anything cheap and whole bean that I can grind - either flavored or dark roast. I did get a stash of preground stuff though in spring when my phone kept paying me to buy coffee, so it was free or a dollar to get a bag every week. My freezer had a ridiculous amount of coffee in it when that was happening.