New Coffee - aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah...

Fast Forward said:
Mills Fleet Farm for Camerons here in Sota. and If I see it on sale Gevalia
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Gevalia is sooooooooooooo polite. I once scored a bunch of it on closeout at a grocery in Capitan, New Mexico. It was so bland/polite, that I spiked it with a more aggressive coffee.
 
Forced to go to the store today, but lo and behold.. my "five" is back in stock heheh.. The Sumatra is still good 'nuff for me tho, so it won't be thrown in the garbage. That folgers tho... :puke:
 
jbeckva said:
Forced to go to the store today, but lo and behold.. my "five" is back in stock heheh.. The Sumatra is still good 'nuff for me tho, so it won't be thrown in the garbage. That folgers tho... :puke:
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Weren't you in the Navy Jer? I am sure you got a lot of bad coffee there.
 
Gepetto said:
Weren't you in the Navy Jer? I am sure you got a lot of bad coffee there.
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Hoo man... you have no idea LOL. "Shop Coffee" was about the nastiest, but not much could be done about it. The pot was going 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Sometimes after it crisped up a little around the edges ya still said "screw it" and drank it anyway...

Although it was always funny when we told the "newby" to go find the Chief's cup and wash it (Chief started hiding his cup in his desk after a couple of those incidents.).

http://www.navyhistory.org/2013/11/dont-wash-that-coffee-mug/
 
The worst I recall was at Shoney's - but one time at one Shoney's the coffee was quite good. The manager said it was all in keeping the prep equipment clean.
 
jbeckva said:
Hoo man... you have no idea LOL. "Shop Coffee" was about the nastiest, but not much could be done about it. The pot was going 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Sometimes after it crisped up a little around the edges ya still said "screw it" and drank it anyway...

Although it was always funny when we told the "newby" to go find the Chief's cup and wash it (Chief started hiding his cup in his desk after a couple of those incidents.).

http://www.navyhistory.org/2013/11/dont-wash-that-coffee-mug/
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In the Army it wasn't ready until the spoon would stand up in it.
Drank a lot of mud back then.
 
I recall a couple of lines from that Frank Zappa song, "In France":

"They got coffee - eat right through the cup
and when you go caca, they make you stand up!"
 
I've been brewing Kicking Horse coffee from Canada, Three Sisters blend. Very nice! It comes in a can.
 
Thanks for kicking around names of some good coffees.....I'll be keeping my eye out for them. My only preference is that the coffee has no more than two words describing (French roast etc..). No foo-foo coffee for me. If you have to write on the cup what it is I don't want it.
 
Green Mountain has a Breakfast Blend that I swear by. I'm also not much into foo-foo formulations. :laughing8:
Give me a some aroma, smooth taste and certainly the caffeine kick ... and I'm good.
I judge a cup of joe by how it stands on it's own - straight up and hot.

That said, I'll drink whatever - depending on who is serving - but my go-to coffee type is breakfast blends and so-called "donut store" blends.
I guess that makes me a simpleton.
 
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Ever since getting this coffee machine I've been spoiled with the quality of coffee in my life.

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The Krups Orchestro 889!

It has a freakin' service history like a car and has to go to the shop regularly, but damn if it doesn't make just about any coffee taste great! You push a button, it grinds and brews one cup at a time. I don't even use the steamer, but that is a great added bonus. All jokes aside, this machine is to coffee what the Nak Dragon is to prerecorded tapes. Seriously...

The Aldi coffee mentioned before is AWESOME, by the way... but my favorite these days is Jamacian Blue Mountain blend from Costco. Absolutely great! If you have a Costco membership and love coffee, do yourself a favor and buy a bag of beans. You won't regret it.
 
Bought a five pound bag of Costa Rican coffee beans the other day - could not resist the low price per oz. Brewed up the first batch this morning, with the usual additives, and it's quite tasty! At 15 grams per batch, it should last a long time.
 
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