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Originally posted by sidss1:
E.S. Dunbar - I think the reason why you never liked coffee previously was because you drank poor quality coffee, which was poorly prepared. If you start getting quality coffee beans, and then prepare those beans properly in a quality drip coffee machine, or prepare the beans in a French Press, you will be surprised at how good coffee tastes. Heck, good coffee does not even taste bitter.
Good coffee beans produce a drink that is not at all like gas station coffee or coffee from the office coffee machine

Spot on 100%. I like the 8 O'clock original beans. Measure them same as ground coffee. Now add another scoop or two in a grinder. Right in the filter of a drip machine like Mr. Coffee. Keep the bag of beans sealed or in a plastic or glass container so they dont dry out. Some bagged and ground coffee is so dry its like brewing saw dust. Discover unflavored Half & Half creamer. You can add a little sugar to your cup or a bit of honey. Some things like coffee, garlic and BBQ sauce are acquired flavors. Adult flavors if you will. Enjoy. Dont get too wired up on coffee before you go shooting. Ask me how I know.

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Originally posted by Elk Hunter:
I have been drinking coffee since I was 14. That would be 67 years. Started with coffee brewed up in a gallon tin can, over a campfire, elk hunting, out in the wilds of N. Idaho. Really got into it when I went into the army at age 17. Been drinking it ever since. Usually 2 large insulated mugs in the morning, another couple during the day. Even in the evening. No problem sleeping.

We drink Kirkland coffee from Costco.

That sounds good and I bet all of Gods creatures, for miles and, all the other elk hunters good smell the coffee.

It really depends on the way it is processed and prepared.

My nephew noted immediately upon arriving overseas for college that the coffee in Sweden tastes better than anything he had here in the US. They roast at lower temperatures, and then brew it differently. In his opinion, much better over there.

Those guys are hilarious. I think Evan Hafer is my spirit animal. BRCC is good stuff.

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Originally posted by smschulz:
Be careful Coffee is a gateway to Scotch.

You have nothing to worry about....it's just a harmless fad.
Ya know....just like guns....watches....scotch...etc.

Huh. Kind of a strange story. My brother says my sister-in-law would be “perfect, if she only drank coffee.” I don’t think any particular brand of coffee is going to change her mind, or her morning habit, away from Diet Dr Pepper.

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I think Evan Hafer is my spirit animal.

he's my favorite on the show too.

As for good coffee vs. bad, I don't know enough to know what's good or bad really. The stuff in the machine at work is bought in bulk from Aramark or something like that. I can't imagine that it's "good coffee," but I even like it.

I think my taste buds simply changed.

I love coffee. I'm not much of a cold coffee drinker though, just something about hot coffee (Black) that tastes so good. When it's 95+ degrees outside, I often get weird looks from people as I sip on my hot coffee.

Good coffee shouldn't be bitter. The two main causes are using too much water for the amount of grounds, and using the wrong grind size. Both cause overextraction, which pulls out the compounds that cause bitterness.

My grandfather taught me to drink coffee over sixty years ago. He put water and coffee in a pot and boiled it for awhile. You strained the grounds with your teeth.

I was a Chief Petty Officer in the Navy. My index finger has a permanent crook from holding a coffee cup.

My favorite coffee drink is a nine-shot espresso from Dutch Brothers. When I stop at Starbucks, I order a Venti bold with two add shots of espresso. The only thing I like in my coffee is lots of black.

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Originally posted by zoom6zoom:
Good coffee shouldn't be bitter. The two main causes are using too much water for the amount of grounds, and using the wrong grind size. Both cause overextraction, which pulls out the compounds that cause bitterness.

Add; Leaving it on a hot plate for hours, so the acids come out.

" good coffee does not even taste bitter. "

agree;

and for *my* taste, 'Coffee is NOT a confection'.

A proper coffee is not improved by adding other stuff.

A buddy has tried to share his vision of French Press Kona perfection. He is a true OCD type, insisting on not only timing but thermometer readout for his boiling water.

I suppose I could adapt, if that were all that was available, yet it leaves out components of other beans & methods I enjoy more.

Grandma introduced me with saucer-served coffee around 1949, but I could never stand sucking it through the cube of sugar between the teeth, as was her style.

Early office career circa 1968 communal pot coffee was wretched; instant/freeze dried/ whatever they did to it about ran me away from coffee; moving on I had 'cowboy coffee'; 'Gypsy coffee'; exotic coffee or all kinds (less the civet-flavored version). Big machines, little machines, campfire pot coffee, all serve well for my taste. Black of course. Even covfefe.

Some small town cafes serve way better than others with what seems to be same equipment.

The Mission as identified by a buddy so long ago in the pre-Nixon era: "I have suspended my Search for Truth and am looking for a Really Good cup of coffee".

This link has some interesting coffee information
https://www.specialty-coffee-a...orldsbestcoffee.html

I lub me some coffee every morning! When on the road I would stop at Mickey D's and get a cup of their volcano hot brew. Take the lid off, dump some ice cubes in and you have drinkable coffee.

Years later, I buy Starbucks Morning Joe dark roast at Walmart. I add a splash of cold, filtered water to each cup to cool it slightly and take away the bitterness. It works, it's my morning ritual

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Originally posted by SigSAC:
It really depends on the way it is processed and prepared.

My nephew noted immediately upon arriving overseas for college that the coffee in Sweden tastes better than anything he had here in the US. They roast at lower temperatures, and then brew it differently. In his opinion, much better over there.

Sweden's coffee is okay. Swiss coffee is pretty good, Taiwan and German coffee will make you not want to drink coffee. Belgium coffee is so-so, Australian coffee is pretty good, Italian coffee flat out rocks!

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Originally posted by Censored:

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Originally posted by SigSAC:
It really depends on the way it is processed and prepared.

My nephew noted immediately upon arriving overseas for college that the coffee in Sweden tastes better than anything he had here in the US. They roast at lower temperatures, and then brew it differently. In his opinion, much better over there.

Sweden's coffee is okay. Swiss coffee is pretty good, Taiwan and German coffee will make you not want to drink coffee. Belgium coffee is so-so, Australian coffee is pretty good, Italian coffee flat out rocks!

Agree on the Italian coffee. Molto delizioso!

I don't remember liking or disliking German or Belgium coffee.

Coffee in the UK could be used as an instrument of torture. Their awful instant coffee made me crave Starbucks which I normally consider overpriced, burnt crap.

Tastes change.

When I was a kid, and up through college I liked milk. I haven't had a glass of milk in 30-some years. Can't imagine drinking those nasty cow squeezings now.

I have like coffee ever since late high school. I almost always drink it black. Once in a while I will have a cappucino.

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My grandfather taught me to drink coffee over sixty years ago. He put water and coffee in a pot and boiled it for awhile. You strained the grounds with your teeth.

I learned that if you put the coffee in boiling water, stir a bit, let set for a bit, then sprinkle a little cold water in it, the grounds will settle to the bottom. Even saw our mess sgts doing that when we were in the field.

For the non-vets they made the coffee in 15? gallon pots! Usually one being consumed while a second one was being made. Of course, we were on 24 hours operations most of the time.

I hated it until I was about 30 then an every morning thing. I drink it room temperature though.

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Originally posted by smschulz:
Be careful Coffee is a gateway to Scotch.

Which leads to cigars.

I was over at my friends house the other day. His (grown) daughter declared that she had discovered that she likes coffee now.
Watching her prepare her cup, loaded up with that flavored coffeemate type crap and sugar, I opined that she really didn't like coffee, she liked creamer.