Have any of you guys tried Caribou Coffee? They're only in the midwest and southern atlantic states. Their Obsidian and Caribou blends are excellent.
Horrible cup of coffee rant
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Well I like a lot of different coffees includeing Foldgers. Now Maxwell House is a complete waste of a coffee bean though. I like to take a can of Tim Hortons Coffee and blend it with a Can of Foldgers Dark roast. Borders,Coffee Beanery,Starbucks,Dunkin Donuts,Tim Hortons all make a very drinkable cup of coffee.I like this Hawain Coffee It starts with a "K" sound. My wife has family in Hawaii and they send it to use. I can not think of the name though right now.
I would never drink coffee that has been through any animals digestive system!!! That is simply too discusting for me. I also will not do roting cheese full of magots either.
I would never drink coffee that has been through any animals digestive system!!! That is simply too discusting for me. I also will not do roting cheese full of magots either.
Kona.
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Kona is tasty. So is Jamaican Blue Mountain, but it's not cheap.
I like African coffes from Kenya, Ethiopia, and Tanzania.
Costa Rica has some nice ones too.
I like African coffes from Kenya, Ethiopia, and Tanzania.
Costa Rica has some nice ones too.
I had Blue Mtn coffee whilst in Negril a few yrs ago, I was not impressed. On a recent road trip to Toronto, I had not a single cup of decent coffee. It was uniformly weak. Thanks for the shot in the dark info. I'm off to the kitchen,to brew up a pot of Folger's dark in my Mr Coffee.
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Did you stop by at Rick's?
Had a cup at McDonalds this morning. Pretty hard to beat if they do it right. We have a McDonalds that seems to follow the corporate rules and things are consistent.
I really got to like the 'granjas' in Spain, with a 'cafe con leche (espresso drink with with about 2/3rds milk) in the morning, 'cortado' (espresso with about 1/3 milk) later in the day, and 'solo' at night. After 20 years one of the guys still remembers my wife and I. But, when I would compliment the people on their coffee they would say thanks, and state that the Italians made the best coffee.
In the US it's just too expensive and time consuming for me to do the Starbucks thing on a regular basis, so I just do a latte once in awhile from Starbucks, or around here in the Pacific NW from a number of different places.
In the US it's just too expensive and time consuming for me to do the Starbucks thing on a regular basis, so I just do a latte once in awhile from Starbucks, or around here in the Pacific NW from a number of different places.
Coffee can certainly be horrible at restaurants. I never get coffee at restaurants.
My sister worked at Starbucks for a while and got a free pound of beans every week, so I've tried a lot of their varieties. The Verona bold is very good. The seasonal peaberry beans are my favorite but not available very often. I'd be surprised if a coffee drinker couldn't find something from Starbucks that they'd like; they have so many varieties. I've been drinking some Kicking Horse dark roasts lately too, and they're good.
Tim Horton's coffee isn't great, IMHO, but it's good road-trip coffee because it is consistent and cheap and I prefer the taste over McDonald's. Miscellaneous gas station coffee is usually terrible.
The only truly horrible coffee I've made myself (at an oil rig, where I didn't have my own beans!) was Maxwell House. I opened the package myself, so it wasn't a freshness issue. It made Folgers seem like the coffee of gods. I don't find Folgers to be offensive in any way.
I've been drinking a lot of iced coffee this summer.
My sister worked at Starbucks for a while and got a free pound of beans every week, so I've tried a lot of their varieties. The Verona bold is very good. The seasonal peaberry beans are my favorite but not available very often. I'd be surprised if a coffee drinker couldn't find something from Starbucks that they'd like; they have so many varieties. I've been drinking some Kicking Horse dark roasts lately too, and they're good.
Tim Horton's coffee isn't great, IMHO, but it's good road-trip coffee because it is consistent and cheap and I prefer the taste over McDonald's. Miscellaneous gas station coffee is usually terrible.
The only truly horrible coffee I've made myself (at an oil rig, where I didn't have my own beans!) was Maxwell House. I opened the package myself, so it wasn't a freshness issue. It made Folgers seem like the coffee of gods. I don't find Folgers to be offensive in any way.
I've been drinking a lot of iced coffee this summer.
Al, does McDonalds serve Newman's Own Green Mountain Organic? This is what they have done in New England. Finally a fast food coffee that is actually drinkable.
I have to water-down Starbucks when I get it.
I just don't know. It used to be Maxwell House. But I have noticed that the coffee has improved in the last few months.
I used to own a DD up north. We would grind the beans fresh, and dump any pot more than 18 minutes old. A pot took 3 1/4 ozs. A "regular" included cream and sugar. I wa in a friends DD in Orlando. They ground at 2 1/2 ozs because most locals took it black.
anyone else drink Peet's? I like the major dickenson blend myself. I don't add anything to coffee, I like the coffee flavor, not the milk and sugar.
The worst cup of coffee I have had in a civilized place was at a Bob Evan's resturant I thinkit was Sanka but it tasted like Skunk musk. The worst cup of coffee in history of coffee has to be at this little resturant in Harbor Beach Michigan. I will have to ask the wife the name of the place as I do not recall. It was not even drinkable even with cream and liberal amounts of sugar!!! I almost spit it out across the room.Granted I was not expecting the same level of sophistication I was used to in Germany but I expected it to at least taste like coffee. I have had various automotive fluids in my mouth that tasted better and more like coffee. So if you are going away from civilization into remote area's and like coffee be prepared to take your own supplies and a 12 volt automotive coffee maker! I have had coffee made in a perkulator over a camp fire that tasted better!!!
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