Coffee - how do you brew?

[FusedGrooves]

I like Irish Breakfast . . . .TEA!!!!

Any tea that has Orange Pekoe is fine by me. I used to drink ALOT of coffee but after sometime it started making me feel slightly ill.

When I was drinking coffee it was instant, 1 teaspoon and mix with milk before adding hot water.....

[Monkus]

lol@sumi !!

[deeaa*]

I've had dozens of coffee makers but the latest one is the best.

http://www.moccamaster.com/int/

It's insanely fast and makes superb tasting coffee. Seriously, I mean like 2 cups in just a minute. I just put it on and it's done before I have even produced the ham and eggs and a pan. (I drink a couple of big cups every morning before my bacon & eggs.)

At work I also drink some coffee almost every hour, either made with a big philips maker or a small 'duo' two-cup quick machine; neither are very good but provide the caffeine all the same. At lunch and sometime other I drink the stuff in the restaurant, or sometimes in the hotel reception in our school, if cafeteria is closed.

Can't survive without coffee. I don't need breakfast or anything necessarily, but unless I get at least a pint of strong coffee when I wake up...well I don't really wake up at all :-)

[oldguy]

3:30 A.M. workdays= Bunn+Folgers+water.....plus my wife makes it and brings it to me while I look at this place on the 'puter.

[poodlesrule]

I like Irish Breakfast . . . .TEA!!!!
I used to drink ALOT of coffee but after sometime it started making me feel slightly ill.
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+1 on tea.

At home we start with not-too-strong tea first thing in the morning.

Coffee comes later, with breakfast.
I am proud to say I manged to get my wife to adopt it. Much gentler on the system.

[deeaa*]

+1 on tea.

At home we start with not-too-strong tea first thing in the morning.

Coffee comes later, with breakfast.
I am proud to say I manged to get my wife to adopt it. Much gentler on the system.

That's something interesting, IMO, how stomachs work in that respect.

My wife is a tea-drinker and sometimes gets troubles in her stomach for too much coffee. Me, I'm the opposite - one cup of tea can give me terrible pains, especially green tea. Regular cheap Lipton etc. bag teas I can manage when mild, with plenty sugar, but any english/stronger or green tea, man that carves up my stomach.

But I can drink even black strong coffee by the bucket, never sugar either.

Maybe there's a connection to that she can also drink white wines and champagnes no problem, I can't down even one glass without getting an ill feeling and a hangover....

[sunvalleylaw]

Just filled the french press with a half caf mix of Starbucks Sumatra (my all time favorite flavor) mixed with Tully's houseblend decaf. Yikes, I hope it doesn't explode due to that mix!!!

[otaypanky***]

For years when I was single I would hand grind whole beans in an antique coffee mill and brew it up in an old Mirro Matic percolator that was probably from the 1940's. It made great coffee.
Nowadays we use a Bunn Thermofresh. It's a drip machine with an insulated carafe. Makes very good coffee and stays hot. It's probably about 7 years old or more and going strong

[otaypanky***]

Just filled the french press with a half caf mix of Starbucks Sumatra (my all time favorite flavor) mixed with Tully's houseblend decaf. Yikes, I hope it doesn't explode due to that mix!!!

wear Depends today

[SuperSwede]

We have a Moccamaster at home, I must agree with Deaa that its superb. We have horrible horrible coffee at work, but I guess that true for most police stations around the world

[FrankenFretter***]

Robert's got the good skinny on how to brew. I concur. I love coffee, even though it's one of the things I can't have too much of with the kidney stones. Tea is actually worse for me, though. No idea why.

French press is my favorite, but it's drip coffee most of the time, just for the convenience factor. I have one of those coffee makers you can program to brew at whatever time works for you. I prepare my coffee the night before, which isn't the best way to enjoy the freshest coffee, but at five in the morning I want as few things to tax my brain as possible. I had a burr grinder for a while, but it turned out to be an utter POS, so I'm back to the Mr. Coffee blade grinder.

I buy my coffee at Costco, where it's roasted on site. They have about six or seven different varieties of bean, so we switch it up pretty regularly.

I like my coffee fairly strong with white chocolate and half and half. I know, it's pretty bastardized, but it tastes so damn good that way.

[deeaa*]

By the way, that's something we Finns hold the world record on...most coffee consumed per capita. I suppose it's partly because during the time Finland was a part of Sweden, coffee drinking was forbidden by law, and when it ended, it became the very thing to do at any social situation - have some coffee. You can't imagine going somewhere and not be offered coffee right away. It's just something you do every few hours, where ever you are, road trip, whatever, you have your coffee.

I don't, however, ever drink coffee after 6 or 7 in the evening. But some people have the last cup just before bedtime.

[FrankenFretter***]

I don't, however, ever drink coffee after 6 or 7 in the evening. But some people have the last cup just before bedtime.

My fiancee can drink a cup right before bed, and drop off right to sleep. I don't understand that. I also stop drinking coffee at least four hours before I want to go to sleep. I have enough trouble sleeping without the added factor of caffeine.

[Rockermann]

...I suppose it's partly because during the time Finland was a part of Sweden, coffee drinking was forbidden by law...

What?? Why was that? Too many crimes because folks were all fired up on caffeine?

[sumitomo]

My fiancee can drink a cup right before bed, and drop off right to sleep. I don't understand that. I also stop drinking coffee at least four hours before I want to go to sleep. I have enough trouble sleeping without the added factor of caffeine.

I'm telling ya FrankenFretter Ganga Tea and you'll sleep like a baby,probably help those kidney stones also!!!! Sumi

[DeanEVO_Dude]

I do Foldgers Classic Roast only, in my second Black & Decker coffe maker. I use an old Coolaid scoop, 3 scoops, rounded with 12 cups of water, medium-strong, much better than Starbucks crap. Very pickey about my coffee, I also like Folgers Special... that all... none of that "flavored" crap or that burnt (French Roast) crap. Of course, I ruin it with cream and sugar, "coffee-regular" as the New Yorkers would say.

The first maker was bought around the time my last daughter was born (19 years ago), and for the last 10 years of its life, made at least 1 pot per day (sometimes 2 or 3!), 7 days per week... Saddly, it died 6 months ago... sniff! So, went out, priced coffee makers, then got another Black & Decker. If I get 10 years outta it, I will be very happy.

[DeanEVO_Dude]

My fiancee can drink a cup right before bed, and drop off right to sleep...

I am the same way...

head + pillow +/- coffee =

[deeaa*]

What?? Why was that? Too many crimes because folks were all fired up on caffeine?

Well since you asked I looked it up...

It was seen as bad and unhealthy habit, and demanded a lot of foreign import, leeching currency overseas. Moreover, it was seen as so bitter and bad it also caused a rise in sugar consumption, also imported goods, and thus problems with importing and currency escaping.

They had it heavily taxed since 1747 but made it illegal in 1756, and the same concerned several other foreign luxury items. Gotta remember it was times of extreme protectionism and such, far cry from modern free markets.

However there was plenty of smuggling and drinking of coffee, and the ban was lifted a few times for a short period, and then forbidden again, until 1802 there was a final release of coffee drinking, as even house arrests and searches didn't stop people from using it.

[Bloozcat]

Just filled the french press with a half caf mix of Starbucks Sumatra (my all time favorite flavor) mixed with Tully's houseblend decaf. Yikes, I hope it doesn't explode due to that mix!!!

Tully's....you're fortunate to be able to get that where you are. Great coffee. It's one of our first stops whenever we're in Seattle.

I make my Starbucks French Roast dark and rich, but it's never as good and rich as Tully's. My wife can't drink the coffee I make for myself and I drink it black. I had read that the darker roasts have less caffeine. Or, to put it differently, a dark roast measured by volume as with a coffee scoop, has less caffeine than a dark roast measured by weight. Since I use a scooper with my French Roast, the caffeine level is lower. If I have 2-cups of regular old Chock Full-O-Nuts coffee I get more of a caffeine buzz than from 4-cups of the Starbucks French Roast. Seems counter-intuitive, but true. I don't know how they make that Chock Full-O-Nuts, but it's like rocket fuel....