Favourite Coffee
 

I'm sure there are plenty of advid coffee drinks out there.. so what's your favourite?

i use to be a big fan of french vanilla but then got board of that. I've recently discovered Hazelnut flavoured coffee.. that's my new fav for now.

(btw, i don't drink coffee that often)

Something dark. Usually French Roast. I really dont care that much though, I drink it for the caffeine. Like this week, for example. Gotta love the midterms...

caramel macchiato, but the real kind, starbucks has botched it.

Anything that's not instant coffee.... unfortunately I can't be bothered with the effort of making proper coffee so I just drink instant unless someone else is making it :p

Ugh... flavored coffee.

I don't really concider myself to be a coffee aficionado, but sometimes I really wonder why people do such odd things to coffee. There are so many different varieties and flavors depending the cultivation and preparation of the beans. Why would anyone go and destroy that flavor with something else? For me, I like my coffee black and unflavored, usually brewed in a press-pot (cafetiere). I like the bold flavors of India and the snappy taste of Kenya. I like the smooth flavor Columbia and Kona. Simplicity at its best.

I like Irish coffee black. It really gives you a kick in the morning :). After that I like caramel coffee they serve in my building's cafeteria.

I don't drink coffee, much, if I do it's usually just a frappacino type crap that I can grab and go.

The only coffee I used to drink was from a local coffee stop called Caveman Coffee. I'd get a Tool, a White Zombie, or a Zombombie, or if I really needed to get going a Nuke (5 shots of caffeine). All of these had white coffee bean, and what not, and were all very tasty, and got my body moving. The original owner bailed, and the last time I went to the place I left depressed and have not gone back since (used to be the type of place you could go hangout, have coffee talk about mountain climbing or whatever, and feel good leaving).

For me, it's coffee-flavored coffee, preferably strong enough to eat though the cup if you don't drink it fast enough. I usually put something cold in it to cool it off just enough it doesn't burn me. As long as it isn't frozen solid, I'll drink it.

I used to just drink Vanilla or Raspberry lattes- but Starbucks just came out with a Toffee Nut latte that I just love.
Also I occassionally drink (moreso in the summer) a coffee frappuccino. I don't care for regular coffee too much.

:)

Thin Mint blast from this local Coffee company. All I know is it has Thin Mint cookies, mint flavoring, ice, milk, and expresso.

Costa Rican, smooth roast. We grind the beans.

Double mocca latte with 2 shots capicunno 95° F whipped craem and cherry on top

I'm not a coffee drinker, but I do have my own poison:

http://www.candydirect.com/images/web/38-AA_prod.jpg

In that case then, go for a light roast - more caffeine in the beans, not roasted out ;)

Anyways, I love coffee, for the taste and the caffeine.

when I was living/working in the US, I'd oft make a daily starbucks trip, and either get a Breakfast Blend or Soy mocha.

No starbucks where i am in Germany (and i couldn't afford it anyways) so now i drink the stuff i get from the supermarket - a mild lighter roast, fairly cheap, but drinkable.

:)

mmmm...caramel lattes are my favorite. When I make coffee at home, it's usually a medium roast, with sugar and amaretto-flavored cream. Every now and then I'll drink straight black coffee for the caffeine, and only if there's no sugar...I just don't like the bitter taste.

Illy make the best I've found in the shops. Italian. Stainless steel, cylindrical tin. Hot, black, no sugar.

As you said, Qazwsxedc, the HV varieties are becoming quite commonplace...but still enjoyable to me, for the most part. I think the world has generally gone "vanilla" crazy, though. With that in mind, my wife's new obsession is the "caramello" flavour sold by The Second Cup <br>
http://www.secondcup.com/images/newsplash_cup.jpg<br>

I find most of what Second Cup and Timothy's sell is decent-tasting. I like medium and dark roasts, myself, but usually opt for the HV or somesuch flavour, if given the choice.

Yum. Pass the coffee.

edit: just realised that you're either a brit, or canadian, Qazwsxedc. If the latter, where do you stand on Tim Hortons? (personally, I think it's hideous stuff)

Hazlenut from a convenience store - Wawa, Turkey Hill, Sheetz.

I roast my own when I can. My favorite green beens to buy are from Indonesia (Sumatra, Suluwesi, and such).

I like the breakfast blend kind when I'm going cheaper. I like hazelnut flavored when I make my own. From a coffee shop I love Almond Amaretto. I'm not picky when it comes to flavor. A friend of ours has a coffee grinder of his own and grinds his own (my parents used to do that too) and he gets a high quality brand. I can drink his coffee black and LOVE it. Usually though I end up adding milk/cream and sugar to coffee I get anywhere else or make at home. I can hardly stand instant coffee without lots of creamer and sugar. ick that's almost a sour bitter taste.

True, but my stomach gets all torn up if I drink full strength coffee, so I mix regular and decaf. Since I cant drink that much caffeine in one sitting anyways, Ill go for the better tasting stuff. :)

Umm, coffee. I go in spurts where I like flavored, and then back to regular. I like a dark roast myself. I used to get this flavored stuff called Mackinac Island Fudge (sp?), and that is great. Then I got this other black cherry flavor that was good. If I'm out, I might get a Hot Caramel.

Flavoured - bleh
I like my coffee black, no sugar thanks.

dark, strong and hot, no sugar, no flavors, just a little cream

Flavored coffees are good every once in awhile. I hate to sound classless but Starbucks coffee taste like it's burnt. McDonalds has the best tasting coffee. Almost tastes like they add some kind of artificial coffee flavor to it. It tastes like what coffee is supposed to taste like.

Don't drink coffee at all, as far as I know, I don't injest any caffiene at all.

But I do make fresh ground coffee for my wife every morning.

Exactly. I'm not sure where Americans go the idea that super dark roasts are high in caffeine. Maybe from the grind for espresso shots????

IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!

So my favorite: gotta be one of...two (make that three)!

1) Torrefazione - Venezia blend. Delicious light roast.
http://www.titalia.com/site/products...p?productID=51

2) Maui Peaberry. Complex and light. Yowee.

3) Kona. Not the mixed Kona that has those horrific Arabica beans in it. No, I mean the rea thing: 100% Kona from Hawaii. Nutty, complex, smooth, with earthy tones.

Anything with carmel is great, especially a caramel macchiato. :D
But my current favorite - white chocolate rasberry mocca, yummm. :)

Yuck! Coffee! :(

1. Hazelnut
2. Kona
3. Whatever else is available
Always black and strong.

At home I drink just a normal dark roast. Although it's roasted at my local coffee shop. Dark, Strong, Thick, and Gross.

My fav coffee drink to get at coffee shop now is 4 shots of esspresso poured over whip cream with Irish cream syrup stuff.

I like a strong mochachino.

Hot, strong, and black!

in europe - macchiato
in the states - cafe moccha

Strong and anything liquid for me.

Espresso Americano...
Or Sumatra blend.
Or anything blended with chickory.

white chocolate mocha!

Count me in with the "strong, hot and black" group. But, quite frankly, I find coffee-shop coffee extremely over-rated (and over-priced). Starbucks, IMHO, blows... and badly, at that. A bag of Eight-O'Clock and a well broken-in MR. Coffee beats 'em handily.

Regular coffee, black, two sugars. From Paris, a coffee shop I spend too much time at.

I generally buy whole bean at the store and mix a half pound of dark nicaraguan with half pound of chocolate, its fantastic stuff.

i just tried irish cream today.. still like Hazelnut. I think tomorrow i'll try the stores "private blend". wooooo.. exciting..

I've tried all the fancy blends at places like hudsons such as caramel etc that sound really nice but in the end i'm just disappointed. I'll stick with a boring old latte any day!

Gevalia French Vanilla. I could down a gallon of it in an hour. In fact, I did a couple of weeks ago.

Without doubt, Illy coffee is the best you can buy in "normal" shops. I defy you to try a well made Illy cappuccino, preferably made with real milk in an Italian or French coffee maker that provides a constant PSI, prepared by an experienced barista, and not like it.

After Illy, Schibello is very good.

I have pleasant memories of drinking beautiful strong coffee in a small cafe just next door to the Pantheon in Rome. Freshly brewed Italian coffee gazing at a building nearly 2,000 years old. Can't get better than that...

Or maybe you can. Another pleasant memory is a simple French expresso on the banks of the Seine. Warm croissant, ambiance, culture... <SIGH>

And, finally, a thick black, viscous "Turkish Coffee" in a ramshackle, hot and sweaty roadside cafe in Tel Aviv, overlooking the Levant...

You Americans don't know the meaning of good coffee...

:)

Flame away...


Mr Mephisto

PS - Did I say I heartedly recommend Illy? I make a HUGE cappuccino for myself every morning, and then buy a nice cup of Schibello when I get to work.

Is this a new thread?
Best coffee with a view would have to be that double-espresso on Thursday morning of last week as I contemplated some 9 inches of fresh, light, fluffy powder from my vantage point in the stratosphere above Meribel; my boots done up tight, skis lying just beside me and pointed downhill.
Then again, I did rather enjoy the crap, instant coffee in a plastic beaker brought to me on a tray with cake by a student dressed in a tiger suit in the middle (9:30 am) of second-year English last month.
Oh, and let's not forget all those creamy caffé latte's the nuns in San Benedetto del Tronto so kindly prepared for me to drink at 11am once the penny finally dropped that I wouldn't be down for breakfast by 8. Ah, yes. Happy days:D

My favorite cold coffee is a caramel frappuccino from starbucks, with the real caramel mixed in, not the syrup. As for hot, just some maxwell house or folgers with some cream and sugar.


"Orange Mocha Frappuccino!!!" - Zoolander

How about this one:

Recipe for a Turbo Coke

Take one shot of espresso and pour it over ice. Mix in a bottle of Coke (12 oz., ideally from the classic glass bottles 'cause they look cooler) and stir it a little bit.

Suprisingly, it's really pretty good. Got that one from the Bourgeoisie Pig in L.A.

The stuff in the office coffee pot in a styrofoam cup!