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Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 2:46 am
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I like a medium roast 100% Kona for my "Special Coffee", but my everyday coffee is Dunkin' Donuts.

You can buy it at the grocery store, but it is cheaper to go to a Dunkin' Donuts shop. They sell full one pound bags and if you buy 3 pounds you get a good discount.

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Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 6:03 am
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Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 6:31 am
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I'm not really too particuliar...as long as it says Maxwell House. :wink:

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Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 6:43 am
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But like I said, Brazilian is better:

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Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 7:47 am
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My grandmother’s name was Maude which explains how I got half a glass of milk with the rest filled with tea as kid. I shared in the mid nineteenth century tradition of Commonwealth Navy’s Kai/Kye (hot chocolate made from shavings from a specific block of dark chocolate where hot water and questionable milk was added with a possible addition of grog (Pusser’s Navy Rum). This usually was served to warm the sailors that pulled a late or early morning watch on a cold upper deck at sea. You might find coffee replacing it, and likely today the hot chocolate as mentioned is history. Too bad for those who miss out. :P
I seldom if ever drank coffee until I quit smoking (from the age of 15 to 40 ending with 2 packs a day) which I wished I had never started. I did have some java when camping or boating, but that intake was seldom (maybe because the brew varied). Still, even crap tastes good when your eyes are half shut and your bones are knocking together to keep warm. After quitting my nasty habit of shoving tobacco into my lungs, coffee and I bonded. Quality took a back seat to quantity. That was evident with the powdered creamer at work and the coffee machine with it’s excuse for hot chocolate.

Today, it’s a simple but effective drip machine that does not have the water travel a distance or traverse a slew of grooves, channels, or tubes that harbor gremlins in the grunge. I rinse my brown paper filters before using them, pre-heat my carafe with hot water, grind my beans (if not daily then every two to three days). I have a bloom switch that drips just enough hot water (at around 195°) to release CO2 from the fresh grind (much like aerating wine if you prefer or believe in that), and then the process of full drip begins. Next the drinking takes place where the carafe is not placed back on a warmer/heater to cook the coffee anymore than it brews. The machine is simple with a dual function switch that goes on/off or bloom sequence/on/off. Either way it has no timer and no redundant clock in the kitchen. Coffee strength comes from the beans and not the mechanics. Less chance of failure and more chance of consistency. Nice!

I can choose to be fancy smancy by mixing blends or brands or I can go with a favorite pick of coffee from the shelves. Hard to recommend one particular brand as even amongst the brand the coffee can be questionable . . .but, somebody is buying it. My wife drinks it black and I drink it with milk and sugar so our choice must satisfy both. Perhaps, this is overlooked by those who gave a different opinion on a blend?

I can recall visiting England in the early 60s where we had to go to an American hotel just to get a cup of coffee. In those days it was Maxwell House. Things have sure changed, but I can’t say enough about how we appreciated that coffee when none was available elsewhere. We didn’t care how it was made. My father travelled (including S.A. many times) and he told me of having a coffee that was like syrup).

Here in Canada, like USA, the Pacific Northwest has a variety of coffee companies. Right now I am drinking Salt Spring Island Peruvian coffee; but, every Christmas season there is a difficult to locate Salt Spring Island Holiday blend that they serve their cherished clients and it often finds it’s way to the shelves of grocery chains. I’d buy a lot, but coffee quality doesn’t last forever which brings me to this:

1) Some ground coffee on the shelves has been reported to be as old as 10 years! Perhaps, the same is blended with other coffee. I dunno.

2) Your preferred restaurant coffee (ie:Starbucks) found in the grocery store may not be the same beans, roast, blend or whatever. Think export beer. It may not be the equal of the original.

2) Size of the beans and grind can matter, and even though many consider 195° - 210° to be water temperatures to strive for, others claim the hotter the water the more bitter the taste. I dunno if that blanket statement is true. The 195° - 210° I have some agreement with, however.

3) In the end I do know that truck stops usually have decent coffee, some terrible, and some awesome, and Canada’s Coffee Crisp chocolate bars are famous. Good hot chocolate is an art and orange liqueur is a great addition. :D

4) You may not even even want to taste the most expensive:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/20 ... hants-no-2

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Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 1:07 pm
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"Crappacino," "Brew No. 2," "Good to the last dropping"... now that's funny. :lol: My taste is simple and inexpensive. Good old Folger's Medium Roast. :)

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Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 1:16 pm
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Marky Forrest wrote:
"Crappacino," "Brew No. 2," "Good to the last dropping"... now that's funny. :lol: My taste is simple and inexpensive. Good old Folger's Medium Roast. :)



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Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 1:22 pm
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Sérgio wrote:
Nothing needs to be expensive to be good. Including geetars.


I agree, Sérgio.

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Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 2:59 pm
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Monday thru Friday morning Chock full o' Nuts thru a drip, Weekends and other occasions, Peet's Major Dikason's Blend through a French Press
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Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 3:41 pm
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Well I've got a tin in the cupboard that used to have illy coffee in it that was what I bought. I liked the tin so much I decided to keep it and use it for ground coffee. So now I have the illy tin full of coffee but can't remember what is in it, it was a long time ago that I refilled the tin it is very possibly Dough Egbart's but could easily be something else.

So inspired by this topic posting in the forum today I dug out the moca pot and made some coffee instead of using instant (Nescafe).

Today while in the supermarket I saw some croisants that were reduced in price so I decided to buy them so that I could have them with my coffee. So that is the plan for tomorrow morning, mystery coffee with warm croisants. The kitchen smells good when you've got coffee on the stove and croisants in the oven.

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Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 7:07 pm
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Lately I've been drinking Salt Spring Peru.
(wink at FSB)
I used to drink the darkest coffee I could find, which was usually something akin to a French roast but recently I decided I'm weary of the bitterness of ultra dark beans.
Moving back down to medium roasts but ones that are as robust as possible within that category.
I've also upped my bean/cup ratio; ie: making it stronger.

I grind only enough for immediate use and brew it in a French press.
Basically I'm making tea with coffee.

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Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 8:02 pm
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BMW-KTM wrote:
Lately I've been drinking Salt Spring Peru.
(wink at FSB)
:wink: back at ya bro’. I had to go out today and as we ran out of coffee today, I bypassed four grocery stores within walking distance and headed a couple of miles away to take a chance on getting Salt Spring Peru at one of the few Safeways left in town. Pretty hard to find that brand of coffee in this neck of the woods, and when we do we are limited to type or quantity; but, I scored two today so I’m good to go. :D
At night I’ll have a large hot milk chocolate malt by Nestles Milo. Bad habits are hard to break ‘cause I love ‘em too much. :lol:
As for cheap coffee . . . that’s always extra good when you don’t have any coffee in the house and even high priced coffee can be a crap shoot. :P
Bottoms up and Cheers to you all!

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Enjoy your SSP Matt. All we need now is a good hippy bakery close by to round it out. :wink:

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Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 7:36 am
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I keep thinking I should visit Salt Spring Island at least once before I croak.
I hear it is quite lovely with an amazing music scene.
A woman I went to high school lives there and she assures me it is not a prerequisite to grow your hair out, wear tie-dye or eat granola.

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Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 8:00 am
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BMW-KTM wrote:
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I keep thinking I should visit Salt Spring Island at least once before I croak.
I hear it is quite lovely with an amazing music scene.
A woman I went to high school lives there and she assures me it is not a prerequisite to grow your hair out, wear tie-dye or eat granola.
I know that Island very well, and she is right on all accounts. It’s a fun place and even good for a day trip. Highly recommended. Very artsy and chillin’. Definitely one of my favourite getaways for young and old. People are very friendly. Hmm. Wonder why. :shock: :lol: You might rethink that fashion statement because you might not want to leave, and forget about trying to blend in. Strangers stand out like a sore thumb. Just kiddin’ :P
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