It’s ironic that the table you use to display your coffee and grinder on is a Craftsman. Whilst I too am somewhat of a craftsman, I limit that to wood but not my coffee. Yvonne, on the other hand, has a myriad of flavors and textures which she enjoys but I stay in the less adventurous category of 10 cups a day of the Columbian / Arabica hot and black stuff. Matter of fact, it doesn’t even have to be real hot. As long as there isn’t some sort of bug in it, it’s drinkable.
After much experimentation, I prefer my coffee coarsely ground. When you buy ground coffee, it's always ground fine, but I don't like it that way. When I grind my own coffee fine, it's not as good as when I grind it coarsely.
The Olde Brooklyn Coffee isn't among my favorites. Although it's way better than the stuff you get in a can, I have had plenty of coffees that I have liked better. Nevertheless, since I bought five pounds of it, I'll be drinking it. Sometimes, I'll mix it with one of the others, but it's not so bad by itself. I bought a small bag of Christopher Bean Coffee, Cinnamon Hazelnut Creme, and I really like it, as I do the Coffee Fool cinnamon coffee that I bought at the same time as the Olde Brooklyn stuff.
The worst part of having to drink half-caff is there isn't much variety to choose from. I wonder why more brands don't come out with their own version.
Uh-huh. When you drink half-caff, it's as if that is supposed to be a flavor in its own right. There isn't much variety in decaff either. I can't tell whether my coffee has caffeine or not, and would be willing to drink half-caff or decaffeinated except that I like some variety.
I do that. I usually mix my coffees anyhow. Of course, it dilutes the taste of whatever coffee I'm mixing it with but the result is still often good.
I fix one cup full strength coffee each morning and drink down half, then refill with hot water, repeat until four cups drank and enjoyed. I got use to the diluting and look forward to even the fourth cup. Better than decaf or half caf for my taste.
You can make your own. Half of flavored coffee and half decaff.. I have drank Flogers 50/50 for years. Sometime I add a tad of flavored coffee too that.
Kirkland dark roast from Costco usually My #1 is Community Dark Roast expensive here All coffee drank black
I still have some of the Olde Brooklyn coffee, since I bought a five-pound bag of it, and I still have a little of the Foolash Goulash and the Christopher Bean Cinnamon Hazelnut Creme, but I am nearly out of chicory, so I bought another pound of it, which should last me a year or so. While I was at it, I ordered a couple more bags of Christopher Bean coffee - the Pumpkin Spice and the Apple Cinnamon French Toast. It's getting cold and I drink a lot of coffee when it's cold.
I'm no coffee snob but I am a purist. Flavored coffee... ick. Just gimme the real stuff and make it strong.