Coffee

Discussion in 'Food & Drinks' started by Bill Boggs, Aug 23, 2016.

  1. Bobby Cole

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    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.
     
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  2. Ken Anderson

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    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.

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    Course seems to give best flavor and aroma.
     
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  4. Ken Anderson

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    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.

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    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.
     
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  6. Ken Anderson

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    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.
     
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  7. Beth Gallagher

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    Could you simply mix regular and decaf in a 1:1 ratio? Or even go a little heavier on the decaf?
     
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  8. Ken Anderson

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    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.
     
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    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.
     
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    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.
     
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    Kirkland dark roast from Costco usually
    My #1 is Community Dark Roast expensive here

    All coffee drank black
     
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  13. Bill Boggs

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    Thanks. Going to have to try that.
     
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  14. Ken Anderson

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    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.

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  15. Beth Gallagher

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    I'm no coffee snob but I am a purist. Flavored coffee... ick. Just gimme the real stuff and make it strong.
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