How do you geeks like your coffee?

Now I don't know about you guys, but I love my coffee.

I started drinking coffee when I was nine, and since then I've worked at two different coffee shops as a barista, and nowadays I drink a pot (or two...) a day.

But what I'm curious about, is how do you like it? Maybe it's that kick of your favorite bean that gets you going, or the creaminess of steamed milk to relax you into your day... but if any of you are like me, that caffeine is what keeps us powered through the day.

So here's my daily coffee routine:
- I grind 12 cups worth of San Francisco Bay French Roast.
- Put the coffee in the filter using a ratio of one tablespoon per cup
- Throw eight cups of water into the chamber
- Brew
- Pour into my thermos
- Bring to my desk and enjoy. :3

I'll do my best to try everything you guys list here (I like trying different things), but I can't make any promises with budget constraints and all that.

Oh, and I might pass on tasting any instant coffee... In my experience, if you've tasted one, you've tasted them all.

I look forward to hearing for you!

 

Yep, I love my coffee too. Fortunate enough to have a pretty amazing coffee machine available to me as part of my business! Flat white every morning for me. Nice and strong and sugary! I'm from the UK and love my Jamaican coffee.. Been fortunate enough to try Balinese too, amazing stuff but seriously expensive.

 

A while back there was a lively discussion on here about coffee and coffee makers. There are some people here who are very serious about this stuff! Some have very fancy makers and such.
I love a good cup of coffee but I don't have an expensive coffee maker nor do I grind my own beans. I like my coffee fresh brewed, very hot, with a little cream and sugar. Occasionally I like a flavored coffee.

 

With cream, sugar, and the delicious tears of my enemies.

 

I used to drink at least two pots of thick, black coffee a day. I cut back. Well, that's an understatement. I now drink coffee maybe a few times a year, and I've hardly substituted other types of caffeine for it. The bonus to doing that is when I need a cup of coffee, it actually works to keep me awake!

How I take it depends on the quality of the coffee. I don't much make it at home any more since there's no point, so I am at the mercy of whatever is being served at work. Which means I typically add at least three sugars and ideally whatever they're passing off as creamer, because with enough sugar you can choke anything down (the business model for Starbucks, near as I can tell).

 

I brew cheap coffee at home before work and then gas station coffee on the way to work. That second cup I sip from all day and I never reheat it. Since I work outdoors that second cup gets a bit chilly in the Winter....like sometimes an ice slushy chilly. But I drink it. Some people are inexplicably horrified by that for some reason.

 

I have a Saeco coffee machine and get 1kg bags of freshly roasted beans from a local roaster. The roaster does many styles and different blends and my favourite is one called Suuweet. This blend won him the silver trophy against 300 competitors at the National Coffee Roasting Competition several years ago.In the last 5 years he has won 18 trophies in major competitions and also in several different categories so he makes a quality product which I can pick up direct from the factory door at a special cash price

I usually have my coffee either as a flat white or a latte and usually have three short shots and the rest hot milk in a large mug. My wife prefers cappuccino and has a bit more milk and only two shots. :cool :yum

 

My grandmother once told me that good coffee should be like a good man.

Strong, rich, smooth, and keeps you up all night.

 

Or like a good woman.

Sweet, rich, smooth, and keeps you up all night. :drool

 

Majorgeeks official old fart likes his coffee a little on the strong side.
non dairy creamer and Splenda.

 

More importantly for me is the mug, I like a BIG mug so I am not running back for more. I currently use a beer stein with my family crest.
BTW, I have working hands, size 14 - 14.5 ring, when Wifey picked up our wedding rings the guy asked "that's a huge ring, you marrying a gorilla?". She said "No and he will be in to talk to you." Coffee cups often have small handles.

 

I have maybe one or two cups a week, depending on what job sites I go to and what kinds of coffee they have there

I rarely drink my own coffee, but when I do, it's late at night on the weekend, and it's this mixed with some of this.

 

I like a cup or 2 but I mainly drink water and plenty of it. Been told to drink at least 8 pints a day.

But if I do have my coffee I like it black with 2 sugars.

 

Black, with some Hershey's syrup.

Bet most of you haven't tried that before...

 

Nope, but I will now. I do quite regularly put a packet of instant hot cocoa in a cup of coffee. That's pretty tasty.

 

Not used chocolate syrup but I have added 1 package of instant hot chocolate to a cup of coffee and I liked it.

 

I have . . . it's good.

 

No, and I have no plans to since Hershey's syrup would make the coffee way too sweet. Yuck.

I do occasionally put a piece of dark chocolate in my (hot) coffee and stir until it's fully melted. That is very good. :yum

 

Did you mean Sumatran kopi luwak? Beans pooped by civets.

 

I prefer Columbian Supreme with half and half and a sugar substitute called Sweet One. I drink 4 — 6 mugs of it per day (absolutely need 2 mugs of it in the morning).

When I was working, I used to have iced mocha in the afternoon and there was a coffee roastery in the mall across from where I worked. I tried Tanzanian Teaberry from the roastery once and went into palpitations — I never had it again.

 

They have elephants in Peru? :confused

 

Well that just stinks!LOL

 

It is chocolate syrup. We put it on ice cream and make chocolate sundae, put it in milk and make chocolate milk, or heat it and pour it over chocolate cake and make a warm mess that taste wonderful with ice cream and whipped topping.

 

It also comes in a squeeze bottle with additional flavors — Strawberry and Caramel — primarily for icecream.

 

Hersy's syrup is just undercooked fudge. That's one way of making it at home, matter of fact.

 

Make yourself a Chocolate Milk Shake when you find it.:yum

 

Starbucks calls an extra Caramel Frappacino a "Felony Caramel Frap."

 

I personally like the old fashion milk shake that is just milk, syrup, and ice cream mixed together. McD'd is just OK but that whipped topping they put on it is nasty stuff, if you leave it in the cup it never even melts. I think that tells you it is not meant for human consumption. LOL

 

Probably not real milk, that's for sure uke

 

Yeah but, diabetes wouldn't be caused by just having one caramel frappacino/day. Mine was caused by constantly eating things like doughnuts, pastries, almond rings, etc. If only I knew then what I know now, especially about how diabetes ravages you — skin, eyes, kidneys, legs...

 

I use one of the very fine mesh cup tea filter/strainers, that fit into the cup, after first boiling a cinnamon stick (microwave when in a hurry) in the water for a few minutes. Any decent coffee goes in the filter, into the cup, with the hot cinnamon water and voila, cinnamon coffee. No sweetener is better than cinnamon to me. Occasionally I add unsweetened baking cocoa powder for cinnamon chocolate coffee. Instant fresh. When going to a drum circle, I'll put some sticks in a percolator and double percolate the coffee, mix in the cocoa and re-use a liter bottle for portability; hot in winter; cold in summer. Also makes a good hand warmer/cooler.
Good to meet you all.

 

This sounds delicious! :yum

Thanks for the detailed description, I'm definitely going to give this one a try! I love cinnamon.

 

With chocolate.

Lots, and lots of :*** chocolate...

:-D

 

I like my coffee any way that you make it. Black. With cream and sugar. Just cream. Just sugar. I like it all!

 

I used to take tons of cream and sugar, but for the last 2 weeks or so I've taken it black. Very nice!