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Originally Posted By: rszappa1
Have you tried White Castle Coffee? Not bad at all...


I have not tried their coffee. I do like McDonald's coffee though.

There's a White Castle that I drive by a lot, but never stopped in. Used to slam 6-8 sliders at a time!
 
I like the Eight O'Clock or Kwik Trip coffee. I like the BUNN coffee maker it was well worth the $100.00 I paid for it. It makes a pot in about three minutes and I had it for 7 or 8 years and never had a problem with it.
 
I am trying Eight O'Clock now, not too bad. Price is right. Beans seems light.

Bean question: I like the looks of SB beans, dark and oily, rich looking. I tried a coffee place near us that roasts their own beans, and I thought it tasted terrible. Dried up old looking beans, not much flavor. Does SB do something different, like add oil? People call them Charbucks because of burnt flavor, but appearance wise they look great. Why? If they were really over roasted wouldn't they appear dry? I guess I'm asking if appearance counts?
 
[/quote]I just saw the Sam's Choice Arabica (red can) at Walmart today. It's only $2.12 a can.

I picked up Eight O' Clock 100% Columbian for the 1st time ever today for ~$4 something. Heard it's pretty good.[/quote]

Have used the Sam's Choice Arabica, but it was in the vacuum packed bricks. Got hard to find ones that the seal was not busted, so I switched to Eight O'Clock. I have drank 8 O'Clock products for over 35 years, and the product has remained very consistent over the years. The have a good website and its easy to earn branded mugs and free 12oz bags of coffee. They have a Bokar blend that is very good when you are in the mood for a different style of Columbian. Their pure Columbian is very good also. http://www.eightoclock.com
 
Originally Posted By: John K
I am trying Eight O'Clock now, not too bad. Price is right. Beans seems light.

Bean question: I like the looks of SB beans, dark and oily, rich looking. I tried a coffee place near us that roasts their own beans, and I thought it tasted terrible. Dried up old looking beans, not much flavor. Does SB do something different, like add oil? People call them Charbucks because of burnt flavor, but appearance wise they look great. Why? If they were really over roasted wouldn't they appear dry? I guess I'm asking if appearance counts?



I buy beans from the local coffee shop (roasted fresh everyday). When they're just roasted, they're dry and not oily looking at all. After a few weeks they start getting very oily looking. Doesn't seem to affect the taste at all. For whatever reason, the beans get oilier as they age. Not vice versa.
 
Ok, so I looked on Wikipedia. Coffee beans Coffee roasting

It says that the more roasting makes it oilier... They show 8 degrees of roasting;
light, cinnamon, medium, high, city, full city, Italian, and french. Wonder where they came up with the names, full city...

The pictures are interesting. So it seems that the degree of roasting also affects oily appearance. Interesting. I do like the darker roasting. Still confused about the coffee shop I tried that boasted of doing their own roasting, I was so looking forward to tasting it after reading about it, and it tasted terrible to me. Might have to try it again, different variety maybe. Still trying to teach an old dog new tricks.
 
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I love the coffee, that's for sure.

I'm drinking Trader Joe's Bay Blend right now. Very dark and oily beans, pretty earthy coffee.

Usually on a daily basis I'll drink whatever Colombian was on sale at either the grocery store or Costco.

For a treat I will pick up either Intelligentsia or Metropolis beans... these are both small local joints that roast their own.
 
Originally Posted By: jdeare
Intelligentsia


Yes! They have some amazing coffee, probably my favorite of all time. They do mail order if anyone is interested.

As for roasts, I prefer something like a full city. French or Italian is too much, ends up just tasting burnt.
 
Costco House Blend here. Freshly ground. I have REALLY taken a liking to this stuff. Even though Starbucks does the roasting for Costco it lacks the trademark vulcanized flavor of Starbucks.

I still think one of the very best cups of coffee I've EVER had was aboard Amtrak. Unbelievably good.
 
A few years ago some BITOGer wanted to open his own coffee shop in the LA area. I wonder if he ever went through with it, and if so, which name he chose for the place.
 
Originally Posted By: Crashbox
Costco House Blend here. Freshly ground. I have REALLY taken a liking to this stuff...


For the money, I don't think there is anything better.
 
We like ours dark and thick too, add some half and half and splenda©, and were good to go.
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In the first page, someone mentioned "Cafe Du Monde" cooffee, most of our local coffees are a coffee and chicory blend which dates back to, of all things, the civil war, when coffee was scare, the troops would mix the root of the chicory plant into the coffee to stretch it out, when the war was over, some liked the way it tasted that way and the recipe held as it is today.
I can drink it but it isn't my favorite, if you mix it strong like we do the chicory makes it bitter so we go more towards a French blend although we just discovered Dunkin Donuts©
and that is our current favorite when we can get it @ Sams Club in the large bag, we also are fond of Folgers Gourmet Supreme but I am wanting to try some 8 o'clock coffee too, my grandmother used to make that every morning in her stove top percolator and would dip her toast in it, Yummy, child hood memories.
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Sipping 8 cups of 100% Columbian Eight 'OClock Coffee as we speak.

It's quite good, only ~$4 for 12 oz. and has a coupon for $1 off your next purchase of it!
 
House Blend is not bad, but Costco's Sumatran is even better. 9 out of 10 times when I buy it, it is still warm from roasting; then it goes straight into my freezer to preserve those oil. Cuisinart Burr grinder (thaw a little bit of beans a time) and drip coffee maker. I hate burned coffee and I make enough to make a cup and empty the carafe. If I need more I make it fresh.
 
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Originally Posted By: tpitcher
Sipping 8 cups of 100% Columbian Eight 'OClock Coffee as we speak.

The cup I use for coffee and tea holds 500 ml (>1/2 quart). How big is your cup?
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Eight cups! No, I have a medium sized coffee cup and I make and drink 8 cups (measurement from the coffee maker) each morning before I go to work, sequentially.

Then at work, I usually have 3 more cups of coffee.

When I crash, I crash hard!
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If you had eight of my cups you probably wouldn't sleep for a month and do everything really fast.
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A few years ago I was working for an old couple who had a combined age of upward of 150 years. They were still working and drinking about gallon of coffee between 8 am and 5 pm. It was comical and scary!
 
My first hour at work is the "Power Hour", I get lots of data sorted through and do several pareto charts & pivot tables.
 
I'm spoiled I guess. We have a coffee shop in town that sells the bulk beans they use (either common or specialty), and they'll roast and grind them to your desires. Price: still cheaper than buying a Starbucks bag of beans from the grocery store!

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