Changed Up My Coffee Drinking

[bubblehead33]

I'm like a lot of you, used to use loads of cream and sugar but since i bought a Keurig machine i've been experimenting with just black. Love it now! Sometimes use a touch of sugar but mostly just black. It does go very well with a pipe too. I'm heading into town later on, will have to restock my supplies.

 

[bentmike]

The usual is Starbucks house blend black with 2 level teaspoons of Florida Crystals. I like the unrefined cane sugar. It adds a caramely-molasses like flavor to the brew that I like.
Lately I've been drinking a blend called Intense French by Cameron's. The stuff is awesome and blows away Starbucks French roast.
Occasionally I will go straight black with no sugar but that's only after I've had a cup two already. Never cream or milk. Like some of the other posters I think milk masks all the subtle flavors of the bean.

 

[jah76]

I've been working on getting my methods down for the perfect cup of Turkish coffee now for a few weeks. It's a relaxing weekend ritual. I get my pipe and my tobacco picked out. (lately Marlin Flake) I get my Ibrik and start my coffee (no sugar, no spices), then after I pour my cup I let it settle and cool a bit while I pack and light my pipe. By the time I've settled into my pipe the coffee is able to be sipped and it's "Dad's quiet time" in the office.

 

[acaciavet]

I am a Truck Drivers son.I grew up on Black Coffee and good Home Cookin.Miss ya Dad

 

[flyguy]

Starbucks roasts some of their blends into oblivion and I do not enjoy the burnt result.

I attended a coffee roasting seminar at a factory in Sandpoint, Idaho a few years back. They referred to Starbucks as "Charbucks". I don't care for dark roasted coffee for every day drinking. The only exceptions being in a latte or with a good flake tobacco.

 

[jbbaldwin]

My friend says he likes his coffee "black, like my soul."

 

[uberam3rica]

I don't care for dark roasted coffee for every day drinking

I do. I like dark roasts, but am not a fan of Starbucks.

 

[jwp159]

Coffee and a bowl of P.A. is a well balanced breakfast, in my book.
+1

 

[cigrmaster]

My favorite coffee now is the Mayorga 100% Organic Mi Cubano whole beans. It is a dark roast but not quite as dark as Starbucks French Roast( which I also drink). I also love Cafe Du Monde coffee with chicory. I use Splenda and cream in my coffee. The only coffee I drink black is espresso, and I like that best with a little lemon peel.

 

[tbradsim1]

We can"t get our old blends anymore, Community, Mellow Joy, Seaport, so I mix Starbucks Pikes place, and their Expresso blend 50/50 and that is what we drink, I take mine black, wife puts about a half lb of sugar and creamer and calls herself drinking coffee. LOL The old cajun

 

[matchstickman]

Black coffee here too. I used to love the taste of milk and sugar in my coffee but it gave me really awful stomach aches. I switched to black so it would be easier on my stomach and I came to find out it tastes pretty good. I like a lot of the "breakfast" blends by people like Starbucks or even Folgers is good too.

 

[nobail]

I'm just cutting back on my coffee consumption, down to one large cup on the way to work. But I have to have extra cream to make it into a food item.
No decaf for me, I just don't get that. What is the point.

 

[nobail]

I'm just cutting back on my coffee consumption, down to one large cup on the way to work. But I have to have extra cream to make it into a food item.
No decaf for me, I just don't get that. What is the point.

 

[uberam3rica]

wife puts about a half lb of sugar and creamer and calls herself drinking coffee

I know people like that. We had someone come into Mcdonalds and ask for like 10 sugars and a lot of cream in their coffee. I didn't put much sugar or cream in my coffee before. I don't get putting a ton of sugar and cream in. It's like "Would you like some coffee with your cream and sugar?"

No decaf for me, I just don't get that. What is the point.

I agree. It's like non-alcoholic beer

 

[hobie1dog]

Bruggels has a blend called "French Toast" this time of year made by Green Mountain Coffee that is my favorite.

 

[sparroa]

It is hard to find good coffee where I live and I can't easily avail of mail order options.
The local coffee shop I frequent just changed my preferred dark roast and it royally pisses me off.

 

[rayje589]

So I guess I'll be the one to say I drink my coffee black just to avoid the extra calories cream adds... Though probably put enough sugar in it to make up for it.

 

[yadan]

I used to drink Jacobs instant with milk and lots of sugar.

After my diabetes was revealed, I switched to expresso and cappuccino with saccharine.

Goes great with a pipe! ::

 

[dervis]

Black 99% of the time. Wife has a big container of sugar with vanilla beans in it. I cant lie that stuff is good on occasion.

 

[undermidnight]

Yup, I drink mine black. It is always frustrating to go into a coffee shop and stand behind a line of teenagers and 20 somethings asking for a Non-fat, Sugar-Free, whipped cream, and chocolate drizzle Latte. It takes them 5 minutes to make each one.
"Look, can I just get a black coffee to go?" :mrgreen:
Jason
Oh yea.. I smoked a bowl of Penzance this past week and was drinking black coffee.. OMG what a wonderful combo. Black House was also complimented by a black coffee.