Confessions of a Coffee Drinker (And Pipe Smoker)

[admin]

Raise your hand if you're a coffee lover! Raise both hands if you enjoy coffee with a pipe. I actually just read this one while smoking a pipe and drinking my coffee, and I can totally relate. Here's G.L. Pease's November submission.

Confessions of a Coffee Drinker

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Most think me a weirdo for liking Maxwell House... well... maybe for more reasons than just that, ha ha.
But, when my step son worked for a coffee house, he was dropping off all of these fancy Sumatran, Ecuadorian, and Ethiopian coffees. I gave them a chance. I did find that I preferred light roasts, but when he went on to college and I was back to buying my own coffees, I turned back to my old faithful, Good to the Last Drop.

I am way more particular about my tobaccos though.

Good Read!! I always love reading Greg's articles, and smoking his blends.

 

[dcon]

I have the same experience as Greg on this one.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Similar but not as fanatical. I prefer light to medium roast, French Press, grind my own hands. Not as particular with the rest of the process. One big cup per day,in the morning, with a bowl of light Virginia. Best hour of the day.

 

[WVOldFart]

I drink 8 O Clock brand coffee because it reminds me of when I was a kid and we went to town for the weekly grocery shopping. We would go to the A & P Store and the grinder was there to grind your own coffee. 8 O Clock was the brand and oh the smell that came from the grinder. Heavenly!! The smell of freshly ground coffee takes me back to those days. I like to smoke my pipe with a cup of coffee because it helps to give it that smokey, goodness taste I like.

 

[tbradsim1]

Grew up with drip coffee so strong a spoon would stand straight up in a small coffee cup. Went in the service watery crap! Got out and Communty Coffee or Mellow Joy was the blend in Acadiana. Black no sugar was the way I drank it still do Wife has turned me on to Starbucks, Pikes Place, 3 big cups in the morning, good cigar, all is right in the world.

 

[Frasermac]

What can I say except it’s my drink of choice with a pipe or cigar ️??

 

[Streeper541]

Few are the pleasures in life such as a warm cup of your favorite bean paired with a bowl of your favorite leaf. ?

 

[Streeper541]

Went in the service watery crap! Got out and Communty Coffee or Mellow Joy was the blend in Acadiana.

Mmmmmm.... we had Community & SeaPort in SE Texas.

The coffee on my first couple of ships was stout enough you could recycle it with the engine oil.

 

[Morrison Jeremiah]

I generally home roast my beans to a medium roast, because that seems to suit the Colombian coffee that I prefer, and gives a wide range of notes in the one cup. but I also buy Illy dark roast, partly for convenience and partly because I occasionally enjoy that somewhat burnt flavour, though I do think a dark roast does not have much complexity of flavour: rather one note.
I prefer the medium roast with a pipe.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Looks like a right decent cuppa cappuccino!

What I make in the morning.

The very dark and bitter extract mixes with the foamed whole milk to perfection (most mornings!)

What can I say except it’s my drink of choice with a pipe or cigar ️??View attachment 106609

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

Lol, I have the same coffee makers.

 

[mso489]

I won't do my whole tap dance on the subject, but I do love my stove-top percolator as my chosen way to make coffee, while I brew my wife her favorite French press brew. When I went on about the percolator in an early thread, one member asked, "Dad, is that you?"

 

[kcghost]

I fortunate when it comes to coffee. Generally speaking don't like the stuff. I can tolerate the normal grocery store blends provided I can put cream and sugar in it. I guess I should have been born in England where they seem to tolerate simple folk like me.

 

[Verdant]

Love me some coffee and coffee with a bowl. Take my coffee black from charred Starbucks beans to snooty third wave washed or natural Ethiopians and use, on a weekly basis, a traditional drip, chemex, aeropress, pour over, and clever dripper. So yeah... Love the coffee ritual here.

As for smoke pairings, @Morrison Jeremiah mentioned red wine and tobacco and I got to try it for the first time. Winning pairing for sure! We have a couple bottles of red a week. Usually a cab sauv dominant blend and a syrah.

 

[Cappy]

Every morning of my life.

 

[JOHN72]

I really like both things. I usually have about 4 or 5 mugs of black coffee, heavily loaded. First because I love coffee, and secondly because I have low blood pressure. I also like it a lot when it has brandy or whiskey in coffee.

 

[Morrison Jeremiah]

Love me some coffee and coffee with a bowl. Take my coffee black from charred Starbucks beans to snooty third wave washed or natural Ethiopians and use, on a weekly basis, a traditional drip, chemex, aeropress, pour over, and clever dripper. So yeah... Love the coffee ritual here.

As for smoke pairings, @Morrison Jeremiah mentioned red wine and tobacco and I got to try it for the first time. Winning pairing for sure! We have a couple bottles of red a week. Usually a cab sauv dominant blend and a syrah.

I didn't mention red wine.
I've been teetotal for 35 years ?

 

[Morrison Jeremiah]

I fortunate when it comes to coffee. Generally speaking don't like the stuff. I can tolerate the normal grocery store blends provided I can put cream and sugar in it. I guess I should have been born in England where they seem to tolerate simple folk like me.

We certainly would tolerate and welcome you, good fellow.
Come on over ?

 

[anotherbob]

Me I'am weird with coffee. I can tell the differences with better coffees but I really only care about palatability and caffeine. I like light roasts because they have more caffeine. If I was the same with pipes as I am with coffee I'd smoke whatever but buy inoffensive blends at a mid price point.