Coffee @ home

Cafe Society
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I grew up with MJB coffee. Loved it as a kid. Dad bought it in the three-pound cans. Last time I had it (a decade ago?) it gave me a belly ache. When I got my own apartment, I liked Medaglia d’Oro. Eventually I settled on Trader Joe’s French Roast. Very tasty, and inexpensive to boot. Man, I hated paying grocery store prices for beans sold there!

For the past couple of years, I’ve been drinking Community Coffee. Every time I went to New Orleans, I loved the coffee. I buy their Dark Roast at least 8 pounds at a time. I like it better than TJ’s French Roast, and with their frequent ‘percent-off’ sales and free shipping offers, it’s even cheaper than TJ’s. Plus, UPS brings it right to my door so I don’t have a 50-mile round-trip into town to buy coffee there.

What’s your favourite brand of coffee to drink at home?

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A local store sells a free trade Ethiopian dark roast that is very good. I also like Costco’s pinon coffee, but can’t get it here; I think it’s only available in the Southwest. I have a pound of it in the freezer from last year’s trip down there, and it will likely be used for iced coffee this summer.

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I used to like Costco’s Dark Roast and San Francisco Roast. IIRC, I liked one of them better than TJ’s.

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I’m a Peet’s fan, and am happy that places like Walmart and Target carry it at a discounted price.

I love their Major Dickason’s blend. It tastes like bittersweet chocolate and caramel, though I can’t get a crema out of it on my espresso machine.

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Coffee from local roasters, like Porto Rico.

I used to get green beans, but that’s only a little cheaper and the only real non-cost benefit I get is that I can say I do it.

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I sometimes buy Dunkin Donuts coffee in their shops or grocery stores. And if not that, Columbian coffee, any major brand, I’m easy. Wegmans grocery store Columbian is excellent, and only costs about $5 a can, which lasts me all week.

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Colombian.

On the cheap and readily available end, I rather enjoy any of the Chock full 'o Nuts varieties (except for the 1/2 caffeine, natch) as my regular daily grind. I honestly don’t think there’s a better, major-brand/widely-available coffee for the price.

“Chock full o’Nuts is that heavenly coffee,
Heavenly coffee, heavenly coffee.
Chock full o’Nuts is that heavenly coffee,
Better coffee a millionaire’s money can’t buy.”

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Sumatra Mandheling from a local roaster. Medium roast.