Sound Off: What's your favourite cup of coffee?

Our coffee at home is Super Store brand Presidents Choice dark west coast roast. black double sugar. If I need a fix outside of home it is Tim Hortons regular coffee or their Ice Cap. Coffee still goes good with a smoke.

Bob
 
Sparrow said:
Nescafe instant, the 8oz tins they sell in Italy and Greece, ice and a drop of cold water…….. in the peasant style for me
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I was visiting a friend in Serande Albania years ago. The first day there we went to a sidewalk café by the sea. "Order the Nescafe," he said.

"Ehhh, I'm not real keen on Nescafe. Instant just doesn't do it for me. Maybe a Coke," I resisted.
"Two Nescafes!" he motions to the waiter. What came out was something in a tall thin glass that was light brown, sweet & cold with foam on top... and a straw.

Everyday I was there, late afternoon, I went back to the same café by the sea, ordered Nescafe and watched the sunset.
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Illy espresso would be my favorite at any time. Unfortunately, I don't have a machine.
I drink Starbucks all day because that's what they provide free here at work.
Most recently, I tried an Ethiopian blend from Gevalia and I'm really loving that.
Other favorites are French Market coffee and Cafe du Monde, both made with chicory.
 
CVBLZ4 said:
I was visiting a friend in Serande Albania years ago...
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The last time I was in Saranda, it wasn't even legal for me to be there. I guess it's become quite cosmopolitan now?

My coffee day starts with a cafetiere of ground Ethiopian Sidamo, with some toast and Marmite. I will then have at least one Starbucks double shot, dry, skinny cappucino, during the day.

If I haven't had a coffee by late afternoon, I usually start to develop a mild headache. After lunch or dinner, I like a double espresso machiato.

Ernst
 
somecanuckchick said:
When I was in university, I drank my coffee black...
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I started out with creak and sugar, removed the sugar and then discovered black coffee. Haven't been able to go back ... doesn't seem like coffee with stuff added now.
 
What's your favourite Coffee Bean?

Italian Roast, maybe French Roast (arabica, of course)

Favourite Coffee Blend? Or Brand?

Peet's

Brewed/Percolated, or Instant? Both?

What's instant?

How do you take your Coffee?

Espresso, occasionally as a macchiato.

Black? Double Double?

Black, or macchiato. Sometimes double.

Where do you get your Coffee on the run?

Peet's

Typically I'm grind my beans and make an espresso at home with my cheapo Mr. Coffee espresso machine from Target. Does a decent job actually. Otherwise, Peet's. However the Wells Fargo Bank I work in (I do Mortgage) has a Starbucks within the branch so often for convenience I'll just grab something from there.
 
Dazedgonebye - if you like Cafe Du Monde, I think you would love a good Vietnamese coffee. When Vietnamese isn't available, Cafe Du Monde is the best substitute. At least for mine and many Vietnamese people's tastes, YMMV.

somecanuckchick - if you like iced coffee, that is how I got introduced to Vietnamese coffee years ago in Vietnam. You might want to try it. I always thought iced coffee was terrible until then. Again, we all have our own tastes, and YMMV.
 
It depends... It's basically anything with cafeine. Cart guy coffee in NYC is usually my favorite. Cream and sugar. Like my women. After that, the coffee here at work is decent. I think it's Juan Valdez. In a pinch, I'll get dunkin' donuts, but they are hit or miss. When I am driving late at night or I need to stay up for at least a couple more hours. Starbucks it is.. Usually coffee of the day.
 
Ah, coffee, the source of all my power.

My favorite has lately been home-brewed, freshly ground from beans purchased at Jones Coffee Roasters, a local shop in Pasadena. Brewed nice and strong. Usually a Vienna Roast (which I'm sipping right now), but a couple months ago I got an Ethiopian blend with a note of blueberry - dang, that was good.

Also, on the weekend mornings, a couple spoons of Illy in a moka pot. Very proletarian coffee, and quite a Zen process.

...but I'll second ibcrewin's notion, above, in that my favorite cup of all time was back in NYC, poured by a nice woman in a cart on 86th street between Lexington and Park. Cream and sugar, although I now avoid cream - and only $0.50. She used to have it ready each morning as she saw me exit the subway station. Boy, sometimes I miss NYC.


Cheers,
--joe.
 
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dazedgonebye said:
Illy espresso would be my favorite at any time. Unfortunately, I don't have a machine.
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Finally, someone mentions a coffee I've heard of. We drink Illy, basically because my partner doesn't like a bitter aftertaste, and Illy seems the least bitter. On that basis, if anyone wants to recommend something with no bitter aftertaste.... that you can get in the UK....
 
This is my favourite early morning survival package. I like my coffee black, strong and with a sugar cube.
 

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Being part czech (dad's side of the family), I am partial to coffee, aka kava, from the old country. my cousins usually send me this stuff... which is comparable to turkish coffee... and is quite potent. a little espresso-size cup, and I am wired for sound!

🙂 Nancy
 
In general I prefer colombian or ethiopian arabica coffee made by a good barist.
At home I like to use my own machine and commercial coffees especially tchibo exclusive.
But the most important thing to visit a good coffee shop talking and meeting with friends, writing something or reading there etc, so it is more a social habit than drinking something with coffein.
Budapest has a very long history of coffee drinking and coffee shops. Originally the Turkish began to drink coffee here (maybe the first time in Europe) in the XVII century but the Hungarian preffered wine, so just the Turkish people drinked...The first real coffee shops began from the end of the XVIII century.

To sum it up I'm just a coffee addict! 🙂
 
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