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Cup o' joe, and other coffee related matters

d'Kong76 Sep 04 2015 01:46 PM

Am I the only one who makes coffee ice cubes to put in their iced coffee?

Ceetar Sep 04 2015 02:06 PM Re: Cup o' joe, and other coffee related matters

d'Kong76 wrote: Am I the only one who makes coffee ice cubes to put in their iced coffee? not a big fan of iced coffee. Cold-brewed, fine, iced? eh. I'm trying to decide if I believe these keurig cups actually have caffeine in them.

seawolf17 Sep 04 2015 02:10 PM Re: Cup o' joe, and other coffee related matters

I drink iced coffee year-round if I can. Too lazy to make coffee cubes, though.

cooby Sep 04 2015 02:22 PM Re: Cup o' joe, and other coffee related matters

I usually drink my coffee black, though I do like it with cream. We hardly ever have fresh milk in the house though. As for flavors, I do like hazelnut on occasion (Wawa has really good hazelnut coffee) A mini mart near me used to have a delicious pumpkin spice every fall that I'd look forward to, but they don't serve Arcadia coffee anymore, and the new brand is awful. I also love mocha. oh, and cooby wrote: We need a coffee thread. By the way does anybody else have a sunbeam four cup coffee maker?

d'Kong76 Sep 04 2015 02:32 PM Re: Cup o' joe, and other coffee related matters

Ceetar wrote: not a big fan of iced coffee. Cold-brewed, fine, iced? eh. Elitist swine!

themetfairy Sep 04 2015 02:35 PM Re: Cup o' joe, and other coffee related matters

I'm a Starbucks Skinny Vanilla Latte girl (iced in warm weather, hot the rest of the time). Haters are gonna hate, but I'm not changing my tastes just to please you guys.

Rockin' Doc Sep 04 2015 05:28 PM Re: Cup o' joe, and other coffee related matters

I prefer my coffee with a little Stevia in the Raw or Truvia. Lacking that I will drink it black. I used to drink flavored coffees (french vanilla or hazelnut), but now I jus prefer a good rich coffee.

Ceetar Sep 04 2015 06:25 PM Re: Cup o' joe, and other coffee related matters

d'Kong76 wrote: Ceetar wrote: not a big fan of iced coffee. Cold-brewed, fine, iced? eh. Elitist swine! pretty much. I only drink the finest Hawaii coffee from Hawaii. (i used to be a member of the Kauai Coffee Club. 10oz bag a month, but cut it out for expense reasons when my wife got pregnant and stopped drinking it with me) Nowadays I get a bag of it from Amazon every month and have a couple regular bags of whatever in the cabinet.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Sep 05 2015 11:32 PM Re: Cup o' joe, and other coffee related matters

Cold-brew is SO much better than hot-brew-then-ice.

d'Kong76 Sep 06 2015 06:38 AM Re: Cup o' joe, and other coffee related matters

I'm having a dark roasted Guatemalan this morning that I bought yesterday. (she wasn't cheap, but she's good) buh dum ching!

soupcan Sep 08 2015 08:14 AM Re: Cup o' joe, and other coffee related matters

I have an espresso machine at home and its all I drink. I buy whole beans from Oren's and 90% of the time I get their 'Beowulf Blend Espresso' beans. So good. I drink so much fucking coffee. I will amend an earlier statement wherein I stated that I do not add anything to my coffee. If entertaining I'll make capuccino's and lattes on request. For myself however the only thing I ever add is one of these: or this: I think the Avion is a touch better but I won't fret over the Patron.

Ceetar Sep 08 2015 08:32 AM Re: Cup o' joe, and other coffee related matters

you add espresso liquor to espresso? bad-ass. Can you make me a cappuccino with the Mets logo in the foam please?

soupcan Sep 08 2015 08:46 AM Re: Cup o' joe, and other coffee related matters

Ceetar wrote: you add espresso liquor to espresso? bad-ass. It tastes great and the buzz mixed with the kick in the ass strangely works for me. Ceetar wrote: you make me a cappuccino with the Mets logo in the foam please? I cannot. I'll make you a coffee. You want artwork in it, keep moving.

sharpie Sep 08 2015 08:46 AM Re: Cup o' joe, and other coffee related matters

I don't add anything to my coffee except I will sometimes have a cappuccino if lingering over lunch. Also, put milk in my iced coffee, which I don't drink very often. Buy beans from Brooklyn Roasting Company or Stumptown. Grind 'em and make it in a French press.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 08 2015 10:21 AM Re: Cup o' joe, and other coffee related matters

We used to grind beans all the time but seems like roastier beans are invariably too oily for our grinder and it makes a huge mess. Our grinder also can't get a fine enough grind for out liking so it's a sometimes thing. So we grind in-store most often, maike it in a diLonghi drip machine. Never add ice or milk or sugar or nothing to mine. Wifey likes hers with milk and often, ice.

metsmarathon Sep 08 2015 01:37 PM Re: Cup o' joe, and other coffee related matters

so those keurig machines... are they the devil, the devils spawn, or merely the harbinger of hte apocalypse? i mean, they make shitty coffee (although in fairness it's light years better than the awful pot of office coffee), but allow you to drink a ton of it, foster the growth of all manner of bacteria and filth in their uncleanable inner workings, and are... uh, wait.. hold on... gotta go refill my cup... .. ok.. ok, i'm back. where was i... oh... yeah... those keurigs... they're filling our landfills with mountains of unrecycleable filter cups. they're just the worst thing ever, and i'm glad there's one in my office.

Ceetar Sep 08 2015 01:41 PM Re: Cup o' joe, and other coffee related matters

metsmarathon wrote: so those keurig machines... are they the devil, the devils spawn, or merely the harbinger of hte apocalypse? All of the above I think. I'm lazy, so they help in that regard. (though at work I'd gladly take the time to craft a cappuccino if we had one of those) But if you told me they were all secretly decaf I'd believe you. The new 2.0 machines have freaking DRM. EVIL. At least I can brew it on 'strong' which seems to make some of them mildly palatable.

cooby Sep 08 2015 02:00 PM Re: Cup o' joe, and other coffee related matters

metsmarathon wrote: so those keurig machines... are they the devil, the devils spawn, or merely the harbinger of hte apocalypse? i mean, they make shitty coffee (although in fairness it's light years better than the awful pot of office coffee), but allow you to drink a ton of it, foster the growth of all manner of bacteria and filth in their uncleanable inner workings, and are... uh, wait.. hold on... gotta go refill my cup... .. ok.. ok, i'm back. where was i... oh... yeah... those keurigs... they're filling our landfills with mountains of unrecycleable filter cups. they're just the worst thing ever, and i'm glad there's one in my office. You can't recycle them? What are they made of?

dgwphotography Sep 08 2015 02:05 PM Re: Cup o' joe, and other coffee related matters

metsmarathon wrote: they're filling our landfills with mountains of unrecycleable filter cups. I have an insert with a reusable filter basket that we put ground coffee into.

metsmarathon Sep 08 2015 02:14 PM Re: Cup o' joe, and other coffee related matters

i actually wonder if htey can be recycled in a mixed stream setup that many towns now have, where, presumably, they just unload the garbage trucks onto massive barges and send them over to china where malnourished children can sort them for fun and profit. but the k-cups have an integral filter within their dastardly plastic wrap, and are sealed with foil and full of coffee grinds, and there's no readily available way to separate them all out. they're similar to brita filters in that its not so much that hte individual constituents are not recycleable, but that when packaged all together, they can't readily (or economically) be separated. the reusable basket is the way to go, really. and i should pick one up for work. it does frustrate some of the convenience factor, though, i suppose. probably gives you more control into the strength of hte coffee, too, i presume. and, of course, you can use anywhich beans you choose, not just the ones that have paid for the proper merchandising.

metsmarathon Sep 08 2015 02:19 PM Re: Cup o' joe, and other coffee related matters

for my home coffee, we grind our own beans, which we purchase either from the local coffee roaster with the awesome flavors, or the small-batch roaster guy who comes to our farmers market. and then i slather it with half&half, because that's how i roll. when i get coffee out in the real world, i invariably order it with cream and sugar, as it tends to smooth out many of the bad coffees in hte world. especially at dunkin, where they make the best coffee in the word, and also the worst, depending on the sotre and the time of day. so when i roll through dunkin, i always ask for an extra large hazelnut coffee, extra cream, regular sugar. the other day they somehow misheard me - not at the drivethrough, but inside the friggin store - as having requested an extra large hazelnut coffee, extra cream, three splenda. i had about four sips and couldn't get the damned taste out my mouth all day.

Ceetar Sep 08 2015 03:00 PM Re: Cup o' joe, and other coffee related matters

metsmarathon wrote: the reusable basket is the way to go, really. and i should pick one up for work. it does frustrate some of the convenience factor, though, i suppose. probably gives you more control into the strength of hte coffee, too, i presume. and, of course, you can use anywhich beans you choose, not just the ones that have paid for the proper merchandising. I probably should too. I assume Keurig must have a supported one that won't make the machine cry. I should probably just bring my french press into work though.

cooby Sep 08 2015 03:05 PM Re: Cup o' joe, and other coffee related matters

Well this is timely; I'm leaving in a few minutes for a Master Gardener meeting at a coffee house downtown; I always get their house brew black and a roast beef on bagel sammy, yum!

Ceetar Sep 08 2015 03:13 PM Re: Cup o' joe, and other coffee related matters

bah. The My K-Cup® accessory, due to the nature of its design, cannot be made with Keurig 2.0 Brewing Technology™ and will therefore not operate with the new Keurig® 2.0 system.

sharpie Sep 08 2015 03:26 PM Re: Cup o' joe, and other coffee related matters

I've pretty much weaned myself off of the keurig coffee from work. I try to keep myself to two cups a day: one at home and one at the pretty good place across the street from work. On the weekends, two cups at home and maybe more at one of the many coffee houses nearby. At the apartment I stayed at in Paris they had a Nespresso machine and I gotta say that the coffee out of those cups was pretty good. Painfully expensive but good (there were 5 of us staying there all drinking multiple cups of that coffee and I had to replace them at the fancy Nespresso boutique near the opera house). What began this thread back when it was in the booze thread: keep that flavored coffee away from me, that includes you, hazelnut.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 08 2015 03:50 PM Re: Cup o' joe, and other coffee related matters

metsmarathon wrote: they're just the worst thing ever, and i'm glad there's one in my office. Perfect description. Our office is weaning itself off the kuerig. They've installed a gigantic thing that supposedly grinds beans and brews, but I've found the joe comes out a few degrees too hot and isn't all that much better than kuerig (Green Mountain Nantucket Blend for me). The keurig must be a huge productivity tool as its perfect maintenance coffee -- keeps workers alert and saves dozens of trips daily to the starbucks down the street.