jbow
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I love coffee...
I spent most of my life just occasionally drinking a cup. I remember the first time I had a couple of cups of coffee. I was 19 and met a potential employer at IIRC... a Waffle House. He and I and another guy. I had two cups of coffee and felt like I was going to go off like a rocket...
Until maybe 10 years ago I always drank my coffee black with sugar but over time my wife, who drinks hers with a lot of half and half but no sugar got me to drinking it with half and half too... I still add the sugar though.
I have come to really love it and nw drink between 16 and 32 oz every morning into early PM. We always make dark roast... it is GOOD! We go through over a gallon of half and half in a week, lol.
Sip..
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Re: I love coffee...
2013/09/02 15:56:27
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lol your avatar changed in between the time I was reading and writing mine. :-)
I am in my 40s and didn't start drinking coffee until November 2012. I very quickly became a coffee snob. I only drink my own coffee. I can't stand the coffee at work.
I use a Porlex mini burr grinder and an Aeropress to brew.
I drink one cup a day and found that even the excellent locally roasted coffee went bad before I could finish a 12oz bag. So about 2 months ago, I started roasting my own using a hot air popcorn popper (look it up before you try it at home. You need a certain kind of popper). I have been buying single origin green beans and roasting about 85g every 5 days or so.
Not only is it inexpensive (the first hobby that actually saved me money) it is fun!
What beans are your favorite?
I am just curious, anyone else home roasting?
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Re: I love coffee...
2013/09/02 17:00:55
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I never caught the coffee bug. I don't know why.
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Re: I love coffee...
2013/09/02 17:16:59
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Although I do like french vanilla coffee sometimes, I tend not to put anything in mine (except liquor when it's really cold outside  ).
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Re: I love coffee...
2013/09/02 20:29:58
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I used to grind it but I found some coffees I like that are already ground. I like Chock Full O Nuts New York Blend, Jefforys House blend, Knnya AA (when I can find it) and Red Diamond. I like most dark roast coffees.
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Re: I love coffee...
2013/09/02 20:32:43
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What sort of heart medication do you take to offset 32oz of coffee?
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Re: I love coffee...
2013/09/02 20:36:17
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What sort of heart medication do you take to offset 32oz of coffee?
64oz coffeee. DOH!!!
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Re: I love coffee...
2013/09/02 20:38:41
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Take 3 doughnuts and call me in the early after noon?
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Re: I love coffee...
2013/09/02 20:41:39
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None... I also take fioricet x2, that is another 80mg of caffiene. Had a green tea after dinner last night. It doesn't seem to affect me, I never get jittery. My bloodwork is good cholesterol is good. I've been taking a beta blocker for 20 years because of an irregular heartbeat. I had a fast heartbeat before I ever started to drink coffee.. it is usually in the 70s now. I have two stents, no heart attack, caught it before. Still on the same 50mg of attenolol as before.
I wish it was a "pick me up", I need it.
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Re: I love coffee...
2013/09/03 01:02:09
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I think it's best to pour some Red Bull, Mountain Dew, some Ritalin and a couple of 5-hour Energy's into your 32 oz. coffee. Adds flavor.
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Re: I love coffee...
2013/09/03 08:53:57
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A friend of mine in high school worked weekend nights at a tiny, underpowered radio station as a DJ. Many college radio stations transmit a more powerful signal. Anyway, I would sometimes go to the station and keep him company for the last couple of hours of his shift. After he shut down the gear (the station went off the air at midnight), we would go to a nearby Perkins (24 hour diner) and hang out. We'd order coffee and drink a couple of pots. We almost never ordered anything else because we were broke. That's how I started drinking coffee. I never liked watering it down with sugar, cream or other non-essential flavors. I'm not a coffee snob, though. I'll drink different dark and medium roast coffees. I can't stand flavored coffees (hazelnut, bamboo/ginsing/kelp, ketchup, etc.). That being said, I read recently about a coffee flavor that I would try. Maple Becan Coffee. http://www.baconfreak.com/boss-hog-maple-bacon-coffee-coffee.html
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Re: I love coffee...
2013/09/03 09:07:59
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lol your avatar changed in between the time I was reading and writing mine. :-)
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I was gonna state that ... his avatar looked like the ugliest cup of coffee I have ever seen! Might help in the music department, though! 
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Re: I love coffee...
2013/09/03 09:17:52
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I used to be a tea drinker (brewed with loose leaf tea/boiled water etc...) with half & half + sugar and now drink coffee with the same condements. My wife prefers coffee and it was too much of a hassel to make both in the morning.......so, if you can't fight em.........make coffee? :) I used to buy the finely ground coffee (dark roast) and now have been buying the beans.........but, itlooks like I might be heading towards a popcorn popper soon. Nothing like a good cup of Java in the AM. I always seem to hum this song when coffee is the subject matter........quite fitting too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP6IUqrFHjw
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Re: I love coffee...
2013/09/03 13:46:28
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I generally like a splash of half and half..... and stevia for sweetener. I stopped using the flavored creamers when I saw they did not contain cream, just chemicals and trans fat.
A good cup of coffee will stand on it's own and not need creamer or sweetener to make it drinkable. I had some the other night at a friends house after dinner...... black.... and it was good.
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Re: I love coffee...
2013/09/03 14:39:22
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I guess I am a coffee addict. I haven't went to intravenous injections yet but I'm close. I love the stuff. I have a really big cup in the morning, sometimes another at around 9am and then I might have yet another in the evening so I can work longer. Usually the result is I stay up longer but nothing extra happens. I almost love the smell of coffee as much as drinking it, especially the dark organic coffees. I sometimes grind my own...didn't know you could actually roast your own.
A little half and half in there and I'm good to go.
Probably the best cup of coffee I had recently was at a friends house who is in the restaurant business. He had tried several of those Keurigs and decided he didn't like them so he went to a larger contraption made by Bosch. I was so excited about that cup of coffee I went home and researched the machine he had thinking I might get one. Only one small problem. That coffee machine was 3000 dollars...he must have picked one up for less being in the biz. I guess I'll pass on the Bosch for now.
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Re: I love coffee...
2013/09/03 15:08:56
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My friends and daughter have the Keurigs gizmo..... I simply have a small coffee maker and tend to make it on the strong side of things. I'd love to have some of that civit coffee.... the kind that is eaten by an animal of some sort and then some poor fool has to go pick the beans out of the poop..... I hear it's the best in the world...expensive ....... but ..... hey, I'm game.... I've eaten worse in my time. I had a grinder to do fresh coffee, but that was commandeered by my daughter in Lynchburg when she got married.....
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Re: I love coffee...
2013/09/03 15:26:13
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After reading this thread, I now need to go downstairs and brew me a fresh pot...
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Re: I love coffee...
2013/09/03 15:37:15
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After reading this thread, I now need to go downstairs and brew me a fresh pot...
I'm thinking the same thing..... nothing like the aroma of brewing a fresh pot......
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Re: I love coffee...
2013/09/03 16:52:31
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The smell of fresh coffee in the morning....mmmmm.
Another smell I used to love was my Grandfathers pipe tobacco. I have never been a smoker, much less a pipe smoker, but I used to just love the smell of the freshly opened pouch. Funny, as an early driver in my 20's, I once got the idea of buying the pouch of tobacco and slightly opening the package, leaving it in the car as a freshener. Weird, I know, but the car smelled so good.
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Re: I love coffee...
2013/09/03 17:00:12
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Back in the day, gasoline used to smell great too. Now, with all the additives and what not, it doesn't...
An ex-tenant gave me two unmarked packages of restaurant coffee (which I later learned was Boyd's) which tasted pretty darn good. Now, going back to my old standby of Folger's French Vanilla, I have the desire to switch to stronger unflavored choices.
EVERYTHING I've tried at Walmart that's labeled "Great Value" (their store brand) has been equal to and, often, better than what I used to buy so I think I might give their coffee a try. Unfortunately, I like coffee so it can get expensive!
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Re: I love coffee...
2013/09/04 09:47:52
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maximumpower
lol your avatar changed in between the time I was reading and writing mine. :-)
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I was gonna state that ... his avatar looked like the ugliest cup of coffee I have ever seen! Might help in the music department, though!
Yeah... It seeed like a good idea at the time. The current one is questionable too... but haloween is coming up. J
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Re: I love coffee...
2013/09/04 10:15:54
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The smell of fresh coffee in the morning....mmmmm.
Another smell I used to love was my Grandfathers pipe tobacco. I have never been a smoker, much less a pipe smoker, but I used to just love the smell of the freshly opened pouch. Funny, as an early driver in my 20's, I once got the idea of buying the pouch of tobacco and slightly opening the package, leaving it in the car as a freshener. Weird, I know, but the car smelled so good.
Ah... aromas... I've heard it said that if you want to make enemies, cook becan and brew coffee and don't offer it to anyone. Pipe tobacco... my dad smoked a pipe when I was growing up. Yeah it seems nice in the air but is REALLY SUQ when you have to share the same bathroom sink to brush your teeth... it is like using a used ashtray to brush your teeth in. He quit smoking in the 60s/70s... whenever it was that "They" decided that it is bad for you. My sister is ten years older than me and I remember her getting a carton of Winston cigarettes for her 18th birthday. J
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Re: I love coffee...
2013/09/04 15:34:15
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Everytime I'm in Guatemala Coffee is the only thing I drink (Besides the alcohols that are there) but fresh grown coffee makes all other coffees taste bad. Hate coming back to the states because I always miss the coffee taste.
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Re: I love coffee...
2013/09/04 17:47:15
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I generally like a splash of half and half..... and stevia for sweetener. I stopped using the flavored creamers when I saw they did not contain cream, just chemicals and trans fat.
A good cup of coffee will stand on it's own and not need creamer or sweetener to make it drinkable. I had some the other night at a friends house after dinner...... black.... and it was good.
The best coffee I have ever had is my home roasted, fresh ground coffee. Still, I cannot drink it black! lol Guitarhacker
My friends and daughter have the Keurigs gizmo..... I simply have a small coffee maker and tend to make it on the strong side of things.
I'd love to have some of that civit coffee.... the kind that is eaten by an animal of some sort and then some poor fool has to go pick the beans out of the poop..... I hear it's the best in the world...expensive ....... but ..... hey, I'm game.... I've eaten worse in my time.
I had a grinder to do fresh coffee, but that was commandeered by my daughter in Lynchburg when she got married.....
I heard a story about civet coffee. I don't know if it is true... The civet only eats the fruit at the peak of ripeness or at the point of ripeness that makes it taste the best. Since civet coffee has become more popular (due to the Bucket List, I guess), the civets are not wild and are fed the fruit by human picked fruit. If that is true, then the civet coffee is not as good as it could be. I don't know if it is true or not. To be honest, I don't have a problem trying it (for what it is), I just don't like paying that much for coffee. If you do try it, let us know what you think.
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Re: I love coffee...
2013/09/04 18:21:20
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I willingly developed an addiction to coffee while I was in college, as I needed to create some kind of routine, something that I'd be looking forward to and that would motivate me to get out of bed in the morning. And it's been part of my daily life ever since.
I've abused it often and drank way too much at times. These days I'm back to what I consider reasonable - 5 or 6 mugs a day. Milk only, no sugar. When we're traveling like recently, my coffee machine is one of the things I miss the most. It can be hard to find a coffee that you really like and/or to have to go out to buy your morning cup.
Actually, one of the very first thing I did when we arrived Monday night was to make coffee. Eventually, I'd like my own espresso machine - the real thing I mean.
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Re: I love coffee...
2013/09/04 21:00:13
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I created several addictions when I was in college. What once were vices are now habits or what I once abused, I now use.
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Re: I love coffee...
2013/09/04 21:12:17
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I love my morning coffee, funny, I only started really drinking it about 3 years ago. I was a Diet Coke guy. My wife saw a report on how bad diet drinks were for a person one evening, got all concerned and asked me if I would quit drinking so many of them. I said sure, I guess so. Went out the next day and bought a coffee marker, came home plugged it in and fired up my first cup of, self made coffee. She looked at me when I first set it up on the counter and I said, "What...I agreed to give up caffeinated diet sodas?"
Folger's is my brand, a little cream and sugar. I haven't graduated to black, yet.
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Re: I love coffee...
2013/09/04 21:42:33
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Well, coffee is WAY better for you than diet soda. Hmm... And now I've talked myself into needing another mug! BRB... It's as easy as: 1)  2)  3) 
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Re: I love coffee...
2013/09/05 09:26:38
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Re: I love coffee...
2013/09/05 14:38:42
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I love my morning coffee, funny, I only started really drinking it about 3 years ago. I was a Diet Coke guy. My wife saw a report on how bad diet drinks were for a person one evening, got all concerned and asked me if I would quit drinking so many of them. I said sure, I guess so. Went out the next day and bought a coffee marker, came home plugged it in and fired up my first cup of, self made coffee. She looked at me when I first set it up on the counter and I said, "What...I agreed to give up caffeinated diet sodas?"
Folger's is my brand, a little cream and sugar. I haven't graduated to black, yet.
Soda is the one addiction I could never come to terms with. I've quit smoking, drinking, I even quit coffee for a while but Cola I just couldn't get rid of. I've been drinking that stuff since I was a kid, and daily since I was 12 or so. At one point I was drinking a 2L bottle of cola a day. A few years back when I realized that I was probably going to live a bit longer than expected and that I should probably take better care of myself, I switched to Coke Zero, which was the first diet cola I thought tasted ok. But it wasn't long before I heard about the nastiness of sweeteners like aspartame. So I decided that I'd switch back to regular cola BUT cut down on my intake - one small can a day, no more. And this is the one I pick whenever available:  Just seeing the cans in the fridge makes me want to put on Love Gun or watch The Incredible Hulk or party like it's 1977. :P
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