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Coffee Connoisseur Among Us?

Adm_Hawthorne

Adm_Hawthorne

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I'm a coffee addict. I freely admit this. I can distinguish different tastes and textures of coffee as well as some wine fanatics can pull the slight essence of honeysuckle from their favorite wine selection.

But, I gotta say, I don't think I'd pay over 3 bucks for a cup of joe. In fact, I won't. I don't buy Starbucks for that reason.

Would any of the rest of you? Has anyone tried this?
 
I would if someone else were buying..

I consider myself a bit of a coffee snob along with the rest of the back room here at the office. We have our own coffee pot and take turns buying good coffee, spurning the mega vat of Folger's.

I subscribed to Gevalia for about a year and enjoyed a couple of their blends quite a bit. I quit after making a decision to try to buy locally produced products.

I will buy a $2.00 cup from my local coffee shop but avoid SB's if at all possible.

I like my coffee black and strong without any of the trendy flavors that so many brands come in. I don't think I can distinguish tastes and textures, but I know what I like and that's good enough.
 
I think my uncle is right. Starbucks should change it's name to "Fourbucks" because everything there costs four bucks! :lol:

All kidding aside, I find I quite like Intelligentsia beans for home brewing. If I'm out and about, I generally prefer Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf coffee. I'm not so much a connoisseur that I can differentiate between different beans and brews, but I do enjoy a good cup of coffee more than I probably should.
 
I'm kind of a low-level coffee snob. I shun the cheap stuff (and can only drink Timmy's coffee if it's a double-double), but normally I'm quite happy with a bright, flavourful medium roast, taken black. I find most chain coffee shops tend to over-roast their beans (both Second Cup and Starbucks are guilty of this), but really, I'm not terribly picky.

So, in short, no way I'd pay more than a few bucks for a cup of coffee. It would pretty much have to give me superpowers to get me to do that...
 
I prefer Seattle's Best to Starbucks. I think the Simpsons made a joke about that recently. :lol:

I like fancy coffee but nothing you can't buy at the supermarket.
 
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We had a Seattle's Best on my college campus, and for the last four or five years I worked there my regular morning routine involved making my way up to the student union building for a cup of kona and a blueberry bagel. Memories...

Peet's is good too though!

Ironically, I wasn't really a coffee snob until I moved to California. In fact, I'd never operated a coffee maker before then either; my parents were die-hard instant coffee (Nescafe) drinkers and that's what my basic estimation of coffee had been prior to 2006.
 
My parents would have killed each other and me if any of us got the instant coffee.

We get Yuban, and Maxwell House.

I have to admit, however, that I am not worthy of Janeway: I add...milk and sugar to my coffee.
 
Valeris said:
My parents would have killed each other and me if any of us got the instant coffee.

We get Yuban, and Maxwell House.

I have to admit, however, that I am not worthy of Janeway: I add...milk and sugar to my coffee.
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I drink my coffee black, which may be why I can taste the differences in various coffee blends. Besides, there's less calories in black coffee... :cool:
 
I would love to participate in this thread, but I really don't know what are you talking about. Surely that diluted sludge they sell around your place is not really coffee...

Now, let me explain: this is a coffee.

espresso.jpg


(hey, if you want a coffee snob, I can do a coffee snob ;))
 
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Adm_Hawthorne said:
Valeris said:
My parents would have killed each other and me if any of us got the instant coffee.

We get Yuban, and Maxwell House.

I have to admit, however, that I am not worthy of Janeway: I add...milk and sugar to my coffee.
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I drink my coffee black, which may be why I can taste the differences in various coffee blends. Besides, there's less calories in black coffee... :cool:
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I do a lot of walking in the morning, going to and from classes. Besides, I don't get very much sleep, so I overcompensate. :techman:
 
I LOVE my morning coffee. I don't think I'm a snob about it though. While I've been enjoying the can of illy I'm currently working on I'll occasionally pick up some Choc Full O'Nuts or some hazelnut - both are associated with some fond memories of men from my 20s. :)
 
I mostly drink iced lattes, either made at home or Starbucks. Occasionally I'll pop a K-cup into the Keurig machine I got my parents, some super-dark-roast thing, if I need more caffeine.

I won't spend $12 on a MEAL, never mind a cup of coffee that I probably won't taste the bergamot in anyway. Bergamot belongs in tea, dammit.
 
iguana_tonante said:
I would love to participate in this thread, but I really don't know what are you talking about. Surely that diluted sludge they sell around your place is not really coffee...

Now, let me explain: this is a coffee.

espresso.jpg


(hey, if you want a coffee snob, I can do a coffee snob ;))
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Espresso is to coffee what a stout is to beer. They're related, but not the same ;)
 
^^ Wow. You're missing out on a good Colombian roast as well as Jamaican blends and beans grown in Kenya.
 
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