I quit paying the 1 dollar a cup at the gas station for coffee and started making it at home. I have some Hills Brothers and it seems ok. Is there a better coffee you all like more than any other?

Whole beans from Costco.

Fresh ground for each pot.

My favorite.
I live off it.
But it’s $25 a pound, but worth it.

Sacred Grounds coffee from Captain Cook, HI

Black Rifle Coffee Company has good stuff too.

Here we go again!

I didn't know it was an again. I am kind of new to coffee. buddy from work drinks it and I started too. I noticed I could buy a pound of gun powder every month for what I'm paying for gas station coffee.

Folgers medium roast. I’m not fancy and drink it by the pot full.

Community with Chicory.

Cafe Bustelo

Yes they do, we buy it all the time, DGAS if it's a bit overpriced either, good cause!

And whatever else Poobs mashed through that French Press, dayum! that was some good coffee.

In before....

Postum

Summer Moon. I believe they're out of Buda TX. Wood smoked/roasted beans.

Illy. Usually the most expensive coffee in grocery stores and for good reason.

RS

Black Rifle Murdered Out.

+1

"Wake The Fu-k Up" is my favorite.

Costco 100% Columbian. Last time I bought it it was 8.99 for a 3# can.

I was going to say real Kona Hawaiian, but that's close enough.

Broke out my stash last week. That, and some Jamaican Blue Mountain.

+1

Just tried it 2 days ago.....

a local kid owns it.

Great story and mission.

(He was actually here this week speaking at a Special Olympics function and I bought some.)

+1


It's all a matter of personal taste. One man's garbage is another man's treasure.

I’ve never tasted it, smells good!

Cool stuff Wage!

Hell yeah!

I will buy some.

Community Dark Roast.........”NO” chicory! memtb

Enjoying a cup of it now!

Black Rifle of course. Just picked up another bag of beans from the LGS today in fact. The AK blend.

Cup of hot chocolate spiked with hot damn.

Maxwell House 100% Colombian. Tried a bunch of different ones over the decades, and drink a pot a day of this stuff. During cold season might add a smidge of cinnamon.

I recommend finding an Arabica bean or blend where the roast date is marked on the bag. Buy whole beans if possible and grind immediately before brewing. I recommend a medium roast so you can still taste the unique flavor of that particular bean or blend. If you put creamer in your coffee taste it before adding cream so you don’t overdo it. Folgers and other industrial blends tend to be made from the ‘other’ coffee bean, coffee canephora otherwise known as robusta. Growers like it because it is more resistant to coffee rust but it is bitter which is why people tend to add sugar and creamer to their coffee. Darker roasts tend to taste more carmelized which is what industrial roasters want to keep an even flavor. They also make ‘blends’ to use lower quality beans to increase profit margin. A ‘single origin’ coffee from high grown trees in volcanic soil, Costa Rica, Panama, Hawaii roasted to ‘full city’ let’s you taste everything that coffee bean has to offer without the burned taste.
In the grocery store Peet’s marks their roast dates on the bags. Community is not a bad coffee but it is a blend. So try a light to medium roast arabica bean and enjoy the hunt for your new favorite coffee.

Best?, Don't know we use Maxwell House.

Yeah. Captain cook is roughly 20-25 miles south of Kona.
Dang close.

Sam's Club Membersmark Columbia whole bean for me.

Folgers with about 10% Kona added in. Have to stretch the Kona out.

Local dirt: I have been to the Island of Jamaica and have toured the Blue Mountain Coffee Plantation - I wish I would have bought MORE of it to bring home, it was outstanding coffee.
I drink Folgers at home - I am too "thrifty" to make a habit of the "premiums" from Hawaii and such.
Enjoy your coffee folks - one of life's small pleasures.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Illy coffee.

There you go, can even get it delivered from NOLA right to my door.

Big sky organic from Costco whole bean
We grind for each pot

Community Coffee - New Orleans Blend Coffee and Chicory

We buy McDonald’s for the Keurig by the 100 pack at Sam’s. Pricey but GD that stuff is good! I only eat once a day but I would pass up the meal before I would pass up my morning coffee. I drink that stuff by the gallon with heavy cream and no sugar.

Black Rifle is good stuff too but hard to come by and pricey as well.

Hill Brothers, 8 o'clock, and Community are pretty good. We drink Folgers here at home. The plastic cans make decent storage containers for brass! When on vacation, I'll sometimes stop at Starbucks. I know, I know, but they have some decent but overpriced choices if you stay away from the yuppie stuff! And between 0700 and 0800 the scenery can be pretty good!

Some of you guys have excellent taste in coffee!

Actually saw that coffee on the shelf at Jungle Jims up in Cinci, but have never tried it.

My daily coffee is 8 O'clock Columbian whole bean. Their Central Highlands coffee is really good, but have not been able to fins it for a while.

Wife goes to Panama every year. We have a farm down there and have a few coffee trees on it, but no one has been maintaining it until lately. Wife should be bringing some beans back. The coffee we have had from those trees in the past was ok, but not something to rave about. Hopefully with some better care, we get some good beans from them.

We also bring back beans from the Cherique region in Panama and that coffee is really good.

Was at the Kauai Coffee Company in November and was impressed with their coffees. A couple things surprised me on the tour: they have 7 million trees and produce 7 million pounds of coffee per year. They also use 28 million gallons of water per day

For a grocery store brand Peet's is the best.

On my third cup of Dark Roast Community, right now! “No” Chicory!

Made with Arabica Bean since around 1900! memtb

McCafe is pretty good cheap coffee.

Community Breakfast Blend is quite good, but a bit more expensive.

For really good coffee, I order from a place in Costa Rica.

My name is James. I have an addiction!! I am a self confessed coffee snob. What that means is that Maxwell house, folgers, etc is worse than no coffee to me. I buy my beans green, and fresh roast my own coffee in an old popcorn popper. The stuff I am drinking now was roasted last eve. I rarely drink coffee older than 2 weeks from roast date. If I need to drink something other than fresh roast, like if I ran out of the green coffee beans, I will try to get some quality beans, paying special attention to the roast date. I only grind what I need fresh every morning.
I find that country of origin and region has a lot to do with how the coffee tastes. Also, depends on what you like. Some people like a bit of fruitiness in their coffee (think Kenyan coffees) but I like a smooth coffee. That means I go more for Indonesian or Central American Coffees.
There are coffee roasters who ship directly to you, and that is usually pretty good stuff. I use Happy Mug Coffee Located in Edinboro PA for my green coffee, and he also sells some pretty good roasted coffee. I like that he makes sure the coffee is fair trade, and am pretty sure it is organic as well. I know that doesn't mean much to some, but I do care about the fair trade part. I am not affiliated with the company in any way, just like the guy! He is a small time roaster with 2 or 3 people working for him. His prices are pretty good for a premium coffee ( I thing 10-12 bucks a bag).
A disclaimer here, premium coffee is not for everybody. I know people who can barely tell a difference between Folgers and fresh roast. I also knew a guy that if you made him some flavored coffee(like french vanilla), he may or may not catch it. I told him I will not waste my premium coffee on him!

Grab you a couple bags of that WTFU coffee, make damn sure you have a busy day ahead, forget napping!

Never tried any 8 O'clock, cool stuff about the exotics too, I looked on the can of store bought coffee I had this morning, Kirkland 100% Columbian, pretty good when made stout.

Got a buddy that roasts his own beans and uses a $2000 espresso machine. Best I ever had. Would never do it myself. I do however grind my beans fresh before every pot.

When I was there, I went around to several of the family farms and bought bags of their coffee and unground beans. At one family's store, they had chocolate covered beans. Sooo good. I get a big box about the size of a big pack of paper towels from the box stores and shipped it all back to me at home.

You are a sick man... Welcome.

VarmintGuy, I actually bought this bag of Jamaican Blue Mountain at Costco, if you can believe it. It wasn't priced too badly, IIRC.

While I don't like Costco's politics, they do have a better coffee selection than Sam's Club, hands down.

Yeah.
Us too.
I was gonna go broke on how much chocolate covered beans I was buying. Lol

Norman dude,

would you grind and add your Wagyu prime steak to a chub of Wally World "who knows what's in it " hamburger to "stretch" it out?

Geno

Everyone’s tastes are different, we’ve been drinkIn Black Rifle for over well over a year and it never disappoints. Silencer smooth is a excellent light roast, AK47 is a excellent medium roast and Buffalo trading post is also a great medium roast. I’ve given samples to several co workers and all of them said it was excellent. 2 of them now order it as their preferred coffee, none of them said it was just ok or average. I gave samples to 4 people.. just black was alright, beyond black was to burnt tasting for me and gunship was a bit to light tasting for me. Silencer smooth and AK 47 are almost a guaranteed likeable coffee if you’d like to give it a go. Tastes and finishes likes it smells, no surprises. They also donate to 2A and military causes, that’s why I don’t mind spending a little more on it. No soy boy designer coffee in this house.

I must be toxically masculine................I prefer DARK roasted coffee as in espresso roast or darker.

and I like some mud in the bottom.

Folgers = the Ripple of coffees.

Maxwell House= MD 20/20 of coffees

any off brand el cheapo = the Gallo white port of coffees

In other words, when one is Jones'n for a cup of java whatever is available will do.

Presently, we drink Peet's and have it shipped in. My wife prefers the Italian Roast. I mix Decaf French and their Espresso roast. Light/medium roasts are too "bright" for my tastes. Our Sunday coffee that we make a pot of together is presently their Arabian Mocha Sanani............A little light for my preferred tastes but a very nice brew nonetheless.

Driving south from Kailua-Kona and doing a coffee plantation tour will get one really wired..............ask me how I know

Geno

I get mine at the electrical supply house. Hot & Free.

It sure as hell isn't the burnt schit in my office! But it'll do

The best coffee is -- hot, black and fresh

There are three main areas/regions: Latin American, Africa and Asia.

(Broadly speaking), Latin American coffees are known for their caramel like sweeter and balanced flavors,
African for bright, fruity and floral notes with acidity.
Asian for their earthy, spicy, nutty and woody tastes.

More specifically, each individual country and even parts of countries have their own distinctive tastes.
EG:
Central America
you can expect varying amounts of acidity (more apple-ish and malic in Guatemala; cherry-like from Mexico)
and a smooth, sugar-browning sweetness that is sometimes soft like chocolate or buttery like flaky pastry crust.
"Balance" is a word to describe these coffees, and their fruit-like
characteristics often play nice as a mild backdrop to the cocoa and spice flavors.

South America
The classic Colombian profile—as with other better-quality coffees from Peru, etc—brings together a mellow acidity
and a strong caramel sweetness, perhaps with a nutty undertone. Sweet and medium-bodied, they have the most
recognizable coffee flavor to most North Americans.

Brazil
Some Brazilian beans—especially those that are pulped natural—have a pronounced peanutty quality and heavy body
that makes them common components in espresso blends. Chocolate and some spice is typical, and the coffees tend
to linger on the palate longer than other South American regions.

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and Of course, there’s still much more to it than that like,...Altitude, temperature, rainfall, sunlight and other
environmental factors.

Then you have the many varietal type of Coffee plants you can choose from to grow (Arabica alone can have like 40 varieties of plant)

Then you have the processing method like Washed or semi-washed (fermented) or natural Dry process the bean
is put through. ....which effect flavor profiles differently.

then you have coffee blending, roasting method, grind/granule size, basket-load size, tamping /compression, pre-infusion before extraction,
extraction time, extraction weight, water temperature, water quality.

then the same high quality bean you use to make/serve a coffee in a dry cool environment can turn out differently in character
to when you do it in a hot humid environment.

Some coffee affectionadoes will store beans in a temp.//moisture controlled environment and only pull them out when about to make
a coffee, ie;.. they won't have the beans sitting around in the normal atmosphere for extended hrs waiting to be used.
Some folks are even experimenting with keeping beans in dry ice till ready to put them in the grinder and then straight away made
into a coffee,
.....apparently dry iced brittle condition beans break down into a more consistent granule size.




very True, but the premium coffee market also has fancy talking people pushing certain beans, but when I have quizzed some of them
they seem to know very little on the details and back ground of the product they are pushing....It only takes a few specific type of questions
to discover who are true coffee affectionadoes and those who are just waffling salesman cafe owners.

Fresh ground of your choice. Try a bunch. So many different names, but 3 main types of roasts. Light, Med, Dark. Varying degrees of each.


Make it in a French Press. Do not use a drip coffee maker.

[quote=Valsdad
I must be toxically masculine................I prefer DARK roasted coffee as in espresso roast or darker.

and I like some mud in the bottom.

Folgers = the Ripple of coffees.

Maxwell House= MD 20/20 of coffees

any off brand el cheapo = the Gallo white port of coffees

In other words, when one is Jones'n for a cup of java whatever is available will do.

Presently, we drink Peet's and have it shipped in. My wife prefers the Italian Roast. I mix Decaf French and their Espresso roast. Light/medium roasts are too "bright" for my tastes. Our Sunday coffee that we make a pot of together is presently their Arabian Mocha Sanani............A little light for my preferred tastes but a very nice brew nonetheless.

Driving south from Kailua-Kona and doing a coffee plantation tour will get one really wired..............ask me how I know

Geno[/quote]

Geno, dark roasts aren't bad or toxically masculine, just roasted longer. You obviously know what you prefer. My response was geared to the OP.
A trip to Kona is on my short list after another trip to Alaska.
And as far as wired goes, like they say, "if you're not shaking you need another cup"
Enjoy your coffee.

Some good information here, thanks.

Stihl......NAPA Gold.

James
Happy Mug is one of the green coffee sources I have been using for the last four years.
I agree on the Central American coffees and I have tried a few of the African origin beans.
I probably won't compete with you for the Indonesian stuff though as you said, "it depends on what you like".
Home roasting is a lot like reloading, you can keep working on it until you get the best results you are willing to tolerate.

Folgers

I have been ordering fresh roasted beans from the Roasterie and Paradise Coffee Roasters for the past few months. A co-worker got me hooked. It's way better and I don't think it's any more expensive then K-cups. I prefer the Indonesian/Central America coffees. I wasn't crazy about the Ethiopian I tried

8 o clock is very good for ground buy-it-at-the-store stuff. I do like to grind beans and be a snob but I just don't have the patience and time and extra cash like I used to. If you use cold water and fresh coffee and don't let it sit on the burner for hours you will be fine.

I do like the central American ones, and kona is damn good.

I buy CARIBE EXPRESSO and BUSTELO EXPRESSO exclusively. = IF you love strong dark-roast coffeee, those are GOOD.

yours, tex

Dammit now I have to go to Black Rifle Monday and get some WTFU. Never tried it. Have look at a few others as well. Black Rifle isn’t cheap but it truly doesn’t disappoint.

Cheers

Red Brick Rocket Java Dark Roast at our grocery store. $7/lb. Good full body flavor.

I sent a couple bags of the chocolate-covered beans to one of my best friends. He's Mexican. From Guadalajara. Yeah, he came over the legal way many moons ago. Anyway, He shared some of his chocolate covered beans I gave him with his mother. Well, she was staying at his house on vacation. He caught her stuffing the other bag in her suitcase to take back home to MX with her. Lol.

Lol

Geno, dark roasts aren't bad or toxically masculine, just roasted longer. You obviously know what you prefer. My response was geared to the OP.
A trip to Kona is on my short list after another trip to Alaska.
And as far as wired goes, like they say, "if you're not shaking you need another cup"
Enjoy your coffee.

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I do and will continue to enjoy my coffee.

Was just trying to bring a little humor into such a serious subject.

Around here, coffee seems to be like caliber choice for deer hunting. Some get along just fine with a 30-30 or '06. Others have to have some exotic caliber.

Enjoy the trip to Kona.......................I did!

Geno

PS, bring a mask and snorkel if you're that type. Amazing what you can see on a short swim from the beach in so many places there.

It HAS to be that stuff that the cats crap.

Western hemisphere beans in the popcorn popper over a Coleman stove. Frenchish roast. It's fun and tastes more gooder. It is like reloading, you can spend as much or little as you want to get into it.