How do you like your coffee?
 

I like a medium roast, fresh brewed with cream and sugar. Later in the day if I have some leftover in the pot I will drink it black, cold with no cream and sugar.

One of life's mysteries to me.
Bought one of those Nespresso coffee pod machine thingys a year or two ago where there are a million different coffee pods to pick from.
Still trying to work out which I like best.
Even lined four test cups up on the bench one day which I tried and then graded on a bit of paper.
Lost the paper and now back where I started. :jester:
Any suggestions anyone - other than to drink tea instead?

Geoff (YM) :wave:
'They all taste the same to me'

One day, while still at work, I was in a strange town and took a recommendation for somewhere to get a snack - I was in uniform.
I walked up to the counter, looked at the staggering list of variations, hand on chin.
Lady behind counter waited a moment and said: "You want an Americano with milk" - This was not couched as a question.
I said: "I do?"
She said: "Yes." and then proceeded to tell me what foodstuffs I should have.
She was right, it was good.

But, as Geoff says, they mostly taste the same to me. It must be my age and a jaded pallet.

When I was very young and visiting my home town of South Shields every Easter and Summer holidays, I used to really like my Aunt Nell's percolated coffee with full cream milk and sugar. I have never been able to get coffee so nice since. Talking about it to Leratty, a member once on SN and he a coffee/tea importer, several bean types and blends were recommended. I bought a grinder and tried these types, and I started to develop a taste of the different ones but, while nice, they didn't match up to Aunt Nell's.
Then Mrs JJ and I happened upon a small café in an antique and collectors mall and their coffee was fabulous - well to me anyway. It was/is blended and called Tilley Green from a company would you believe, only half a mile from where we live. We now get only that.
One of the coffees recommended by Leratty is Blue Mountain from Jamaica and its good if expensive - not that 'Tilly' is cheap!


JJ.

Wonderful with a shot of Irish cream liqueur, Baileys, Carolans or even supermarket brands.

I read somewhere that the milk in Baileys crosses the border 5 times between udder and bottle. Stock up before Brexit causes mayhem and withdrawal symptoms. Coffee without Baileys is like Shaw without Savill.

I find myself pouring a cup before the pot is even done brewing. I might be addicted? If I put some Bailys irish cream or Kahlua in it this early in the morning, I would not get much done.

And if you put enough in you will get nothing done.

Thats for sure, today Sunday morning I was out of my berth @ 5:00 am I did not even have a job to do this morning. Yesterday I was up and adam @ 3:15 am but made a few cash bucks. It is currently 7:57 am I am on my 3rd cup. I never go to Starbucks that place is a ripoff. $4.00 US for a cup of coffee.

I like my coffee in a mug.

I hate Starbucks, I've never enjoyed any coffee from any of their outlets. It's either too bitter, too stewed, too hot, or just plain awful.

Me too, Roy. Them's and Costa's have a bitter taste to me. B&Q in Crew and Chester have great coffee though (lol) and good bacon baps (buns). Mrs JJ likes a sausage!! I've heard B&Q sell other stuff as well.......


JJ.

Without prejudice it is believed Mrs JJ is a very lucky lady!

Messrs Block and Quayle have decided that in future your diamond discount card will NOT get 10% off everything on Wednesdays, but it will still work in the garden department and.... The coffee shop.

All is well in the World...….:hippy:

All instant coffee has become dreadful. Brewing proper coffee is a no-no, the machine is my wife's, touch at your peril. Used to enjoy Earl Grey tea, then they changed it. Boiled water is fine.

I only use instant Coffee when I go camping with a tent. Realisticly that has been about 12 years ago, I have all the camping gear. Camping is fun. But the Coffee tastes like Sh...

Or the old gag:
"Waiter, this coffee taste like earth"
"This is possible sir, it was ground this morning"

For a reasonably instant there are a few instant/ground coffees available.
Kenco Millicano and Lavazza Prontissimo are both quite drinkable.

Thanks for that, I will try them.

Slightly off thread, when I was first diagnosed with Tinnitus, about 28 years ago, I was advised to only drink decaf coffee and tea and no alcohol. The no alcohol didn't bother me as I hardly drank any but I stuck to the awful decaf regime for a couple of years. After then, I thought "Don't let it beat you, Johnnie" and went back to ordinary and have not found the noises affected for the worse at all.


JJ.

Just read this thread about coffee, better late than never as the saying goes. Ref post#4, I drink a lot of coffee and have tried many different brands and blends but have to say the Jamaican Coffee is the top of my list for taste and aroma.

Milk and sugar? If so, why not drink them separately?

I've got one of those Aeropress contraptions and I have to say it makes a darn good brew.
It seems to work better with a fine ground coffee.
I use Lavazza D'oro in it.
Certainly sorts me out in the morning.
Roger.:big_tongue:

Bellarom Gold £2.39 for half Kilo from Lidl's. Brewed in a cafetiere. If it ends up too cold, nuke it in the microwave.
Sometimes I just love beinga Philistine........

I make a 9 mug batch by cafetiere from locally roast home ground beans. I then nuke it a mug at a time. Usually just two every morning. 1st when having the morning crap. 2nd with the prebath surfing and Emailing session (ie Now).

Nothing has changed for me since my post # 2 on 5 August 2018.
They still all taste more or less the same to me.

I remember on the old BP tankers, we had to supply the crew with a big pot of tea and one of coffee at smoko,
No instant coffee, we were supplied 7 lb tins of Twinning's ground coffee. with no instructions of how to make it or in what proportions, it was left to the chief cook, then to the 2nd steward and finally the galley boy.
Each had there own theories, some added a little salt, some added egg shells, I never saw anybody asking for a second cup.
So until MAXWELL HOUSE, was introduced, it was mainly tea at smokos.

OJ,

Salt, egg shells, no wonder no seconds required!!

Neville

Instant coffee- the biggest unwanted shoe-in ever. Making proper coffee is just as easy (I am very biased as something in my tasting kit gives the instant muck a nasty taste very unsimilar to proper coffee. Equally, I do keep the stuff as I have two regular guests whose taste is the reverse and don't like the real thing).

Aunt always added a pinch of salt. Never heard of the egg shell (weren't they just kept to psych-up the powdered egg scramble?). I make a batch for the week using a cafettiere nuking two mugs per morning as my ration. Grinding the beans on site from local blender/roaster.

Just away for my second mug.

Egg shells are part of the mix in 'camp-fire' coffee. As is salt, but I don't think you are supposed to use both.
When coffee is boiled with loose grounds, as opposed to percolating, it has a very bitter taste which the egg shells are supposed to reduce.
Something to do with the pH balance.

I don't think one is supposed to use boiling water and ground coffee. If one's coffee was even mildly acidic then it would react with the calcium carbonate of the shell and increase the pH. I wonder what the compound would be Calcium coffinate?

I would be surprised if it wasn't swamped by any but the 'softest' of hot water.

(Second mug now enjoyed and I am done with coffee for the day).

There is something wrong with that statement David. If an acid combines with an alkali to produce a salt, the resultant pH cannot possibly be lower than that of the acid involved. Otherwise Rennies and Bisodol wouldn't have a business.

You haven't got the pH thing the wrong way round have you Ron? CaCO3 and stomach acid HCL will combine to produce Co2 H2O and CaCl (I can't at the moment work out ratio of each molecule to make the arithmetic work). Less acidic/higher pH surely or have I got the hydrogen Ion thing wrong?

CaCl2 !

CaCO3 + 2 HCl = CaCl2 + H2O + CO2

14 years of compulsory education and this is what we're reduced to. Jennings and Derbyshire knew that when Billy Bunter over indulged. Cripes.

I read an article comparing methods of coffee brewing and the Aeropress came out top - and very popular with campers.
I use the 2nd best method, the Italian style stovetop "Mocha Pot". Has worked well on a picnic as well. Even more flavour than our filter machine at home.

We plan our stops on the motorway for the Costa coffee outlets and avoid Starbucks like the plague. We would have a coffee in Heathrow while waiting for our flight and tried the Starbucks - can't remember if there was a choice of outlets. What an awful bitter brew. Landed in New Zealand and found the coffee there was to die for. I wish I could find some like it here in UK. Failing that we use Sainsbury's own blend, No 3 roast. I have to limit the caffeine so after a couple of regulars have ended up with a 50-50 mix of Sainsbury's and Lavazza decaffs, smooth enough and actually has flavour.

Douwe Egbert pure gold medium roast every day at 10.30 suits me fine.

My mom’s coffee is one of the best flavors I have ever tasted elegantly

I think pH was an A level topic so without the compulsory bracket (anyway I am an eminent example of why an excellent education offered can easily fail to reach its intended destination). I might add that Eric Lousada would not have been impressed with your reading list. I did once report to him on some nappywrapped Five Make Dutch Ovens or some such I had chosen to read. I got my 'plus' but the look and expression of disappointment was enough for me to return to Agatha Christie, Forester and Baroness Orczy and never even look at the lower shelves ever again. A clever man, we didn't realise he was teaching us.