- Hot and black.
- Drip maker at home. Used to drink WAY too much coffee. Now I limit it to 2 large cups in the morning. Rarely 1 in the evening if going out and want to stay alert.
- Not picky. Wife prefers Stewart’s.
- Never drink at a Starbucks or similar unless traveling or something similar.
- Started really drinking it at law school.
- Daily.
- Not that I can recall.
Hot, black. A couple drops of sucralose. I have a commercial model Keurig that I plumbed in, so I pop in Tim Horton’s pods for my daily coffee. On weekends, I’ll relax with a burr grind of whatever whole bean coffee I have, made in a Chemex glass pour over.
- Hot with some kind of flavored creamer (a co-worker called it "candy coffee)
- 90% make it at home except when I’m traveling and have to make do with some version of hotel coffee(mostly bad, but can be pretty good)
- I used to buy some kind of Peets dark roast but it got too expensive so I usually get Cafe Bustelo.
- Overpriced coffee shops are appropriately named. I rarely patronize them.
- I started drinking coffee after dinner on a first date when she said “do you want to come in for a cup of coffee?”
- Two cups from my moka pot every morning when I’m home and a travel cup of something hopefully halfway decent to start the day when I’m on the road.
- I’ve skipped a day here or there but never felt the need to “take a break”.
Nestea or Percol if I can get it instant espresso.
Lots of cream (if that means milk) and lots of sugar.
Same if I’m making cold with some ice cubes.
In office workdays, three cups, one when I get in, one mid-morning one early afternoon. Brewed coffee at work (free in the cafe from 7am - 3pm). It’s decent coffee.
Remote work days, One McDonald’s coffee in the morning, usually at 7:30 before I change my status on Teams to free. McD is a five minute drive or 20 minute walk (1.1 miles)
Weekends, one McDonald’s coffee mid morning. Unless the weather is bad (rain, snow or below 32) I walk to McD with the dog. Who gets a hash brown.
Decaf, one cream, one Splenda.
I’ve been drinking coffee daily or almost daily since I arrived in the US almost 40 years ago. I almost never had coffee before that. There was a coffeemaker in the break room at my first job (retail) and I started drinking if because everyone else was.
I don’t mind a nice expensive coffee. I’ve had espressos and cappuccinos in many cities and countries and enjoyed them. I’m not a big Starbucks fan, in the US I prefer an independent coffee shop. I don’t drink the high calorie drinks, but for people less concerned about their sugar intake, why not?
Hot, black. Brewed at home in Mokka Pot. Buy whole beans from local roasters and throw them in my burr grinder. After dinner out will have a cappuccino and then sometimes a latte with added espresso when traveling or meeting someone over coffee. Started in 6th grade and going strong ever since.
- For many years I drank it strong and straight black. Now a mug of coffee gets a packet of Splenda and a big splash of milk. Or I get a latte from a drive-through stand. I also like Trader Joe’s cold brew, served with a big splash of milk and a packet of Splenda.
- Usually I get a latte at a drive-through stand or make a pot at work. Or drink the TJ’s cold brew. I almost never make it home.
- Not particularly. Peets is good and available in most grocery stores, so is Folgers Black Silk. When I’m in Trader Joes I’ll pick up their medium roast, shade-grown fair trade stuff.
- I like and utilize coffee stands regularly. They’re easy and convinient. Starbucks is fine. Better than many local stands. Many local stands cut costs by using cheap garbage beans and Costco milk and frankly, a lot of the resulting drinks taste like ass. I used to go to Dutch Brothers but I got sick of the “meat market” vibe and switched to a locally owned stand which makes good lattes. My go-to order is a 20oz latte, 4 shots, 2 packets of Splenda. The “milkshake” drinks that are popular are, well, milkshakes with a few molecules of coffee in them. To each their own I guess, but coffee they are not. I do not order such things and never will.
- My dad was a heavy coffee drinker (and user of many, many other chemicals as well…) so I grew up with it. I drank it sporadically until I started working graveyard shift in my early 20’s, which coincided with my parents getting me an Italian made Bialetti Moka pot (this was before Amazon was ubiquitous so I think they ordered it from Williams Sonoma or something). After that I was hooked. Sort of. Because…:
- My coffee consumption ebbs and flows. For ~20 years I drank a pot or more every morning, but then developed a sensitivity to it and switched to black tea prepared English style. I tried to reintroduce coffee into my diet several times over the years and really only suceeded when I started with lattes and not home-brewed drip (or, more often than not, percolated) coffee. Now I can drink drip coffee if I doctor it up with milk or ½ and ½. However, I still prefer tea over drip or percolated coffee although I do have my latte a couple times per week. I still have that Italian Bialetti as well as a Swiss-made Bodum French press, neither of which has been used in years. My electric countertop Mr. Coffee I use when we have company or are hosting a holiday meal. So, a couple of times per year at most.
I can go weeks without drinking coffee. I cannot go weeks without drinking tea.
Hot, black. 2 scoops whole bean regular, 1 scoop whole bean decaf. Ground and put into a pour over, and dripped into a 16 oz thermal cup.
The only reason I go to work is because that’s where I make my coffee. Weekends and work-at-home days I make it at home.
Not the brand. Anything sold as whole bean is probably fine. The beans should be ground at most a day or two before brewing.
Milkshakes are a sometimes food. I only get coffee shop coffee (drip black or an Americano) if making it myself at work or home is impractical, such as when traveling.
My parents drank coffee, so I’d tried it, but never drank it regularly until I went to graduate school someplace with a cold climate.
Everyday, because that’s how often I feel like it.
Yes, when my ulcerative colitis was untreated I took a break for several months, because anything that stimulated my bowels was undesired.
I’m sure you’re technically right. But I also maintain that the type and quality of the bean itself is much more important. I find that I can make quite good coffee using an excellent medium-roast bean that suits my taste, and as a matter of practicality pre-grinding it in the store and then keeping it in an air-tight container in the refrigerator. Would the coffee taste better if I ground whole beans just before making the coffee? Maybe, but I’m not sure the messy trade-off is worth it. I even have an electric coffee grinder somewhere but haven’t used it in years.
How do you drink your coffee? Hot, Cold, Iced, Black, Creamer, Sugar/Sweetner?
➤ Hot mocha, extra hot, usually decaf but sometimes I drink the caffeinated stuff, lite on the chocolate, and no whipped cream. It goes into my metal water bottle inside which I have a silicone straw. It stays hot for hours.
Do you make it at home or do you buy it on your way to work or out in public?
➤ I have coffee 1x - 3x a week and I usually buy it. I prefer going to non-chain coffee shops.
Are you particular about the brand of coffee and where you get it from?
➤ Not really.
What are your opinions on overpriced coffee shops? Like Starbucks and local shops? What are your opinions on drinks that look like milkshakes/lattes?
➤ I prefer the smaller coffee shops, and I like to avoid the Starbucks but I’ll occasionally go there.
What got you into coffee? Your first time trying it?
➤ I was a teenager and I remember trying it extra sweet and lite. Very sugary. Soon after, the military.
Are you an everyday drinker or whenever you feel like it?
➤ About 1x - 3x a week.
Have you ever taken a break from coffee?
➤ Yes. And when I got the bad caffeine headaches it really surprised me, so now I usually avoid the caffeine. I enjoy the taste. But I’ll occasionally drink the caffeinated stuff if I need the caffeine.
Other:
➤ I LOVE the smell of freshly-ground beans. What a rush!
➤ I do my best to avoid waste paper and plastic cups and lids and straws and utensils. For many years I’ve used the same Stanley metal water bottle, for hot drinks (usually coffee, occasionally tea) and for cold drinks (usually sugar free Arnold Palmer or iced tea), and for water (iced or room temperature).
Inside that bottle are 3 things: a long silicone straw that pops up when I unscrew the lid, and I squeeze it down to close it; a shorter metal straw (for the occasional times I’m given a cold drink in a disposable cup; I almost never use a disposable straw); and a plastic camping spork. When I use that spork I’ll wipe it clean-ish and put it into whatever drink I have in my bottle.
Here is the bottle I use but mine is all dinged up. Mine is the 18 ozs size.
I make my cold brew at home out of your basic Folger’s medium roast. I like it cold, with a LOT of half and half in it, plus and ice cube or two. No sweetener or other flavoring. One dose every AM is pretty much my limit. That dose is delicious, further intake doesn’t taste nearly as good, and keeps me up at night.
I still love a well brewed espresso double shot, when I can find one. I no longer make them at home. I only find well brewed espressos at a few mom and pop type coffee places, and a small regional local chain called Colectivo in the Milwaukee area. I find most larger coffee chains do not make espresso worth consuming.
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Hot, with half and half and sugar
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I make it at home with a French press
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Yes, I buy it from a roaster near my house.
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I rarely get coffee in a shop, it’s usually not very good. I like an espresso sometimes, but on,y if they have porcelain cups for it.
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We were allowed to drink coffee as kids, it was common practice in the American south.
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Everyday
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Nope
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How do you drink your coffee? Hot, Cold, Iced, Black, Creamer, Sugar/Sweetner?
Hot with maybe a bit of sugar, if I’m making it at home. Room temperature, if ready-to-drink coffee from the store. -
Do you make it at home or do you buy it on your way to work or out in public?
Make it at home, usually, or buy a ready-to-drink coffee from the store. Occasionally buy one at Starbucks if driving with my wife and she wants to stop off there. -
Are you particular about the brand of coffee and where you get it from?
To be made at home: No brand loyalty and I usually buy it from Super WalMart.
Ready-to-drink: Java Monster, which I like better than Starbucks, Dunkin’ Donuts or other brands. Used to buy Wide Awake, which I like even better than Java Monster, but they quit producing single-serving bottles last year.
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What are your opinions on overpriced coffee shops? Like Starbucks and local shops? What are your opinions on drinks that look like milkshakes/lattes?
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What got you into coffee? Your first time trying it?
Stopped at a fast-food place (Dog n Suds, I think) one cold snowy day – and discovered that they didn’t serve hot chocolate. Ordered coffee, as a poor substitute, and loaded it with cream and sugar (“blonde and sweet” in Navy terms) to make it palatable. A few years later I yielded to comments by my hippie-type health-food-junkie friends and stopped adding sugar ("blonde and bitter). Stopped adding milk/cream after a waitress brought me my coffee but after two or three reminders she still hadn’t brought the milk and the coffee was no longer hot, so I gave up and drank it “black and bitter” from then on. -
Are you an everyday drinker or whenever you feel like it?
I suppose I’m an everyday drinker – I don’t think there’s anything special about the way I drink it. I’ve cut back from fifteen-twenty cups a day to at most two, but I still drink it every day. (When I was in my early twenties I’d fill my cup as soon as I got to work and whenever it was almost empty I topped it off, so it never got empty until I was ready to go home – and then in the evening I’d go out to eat and drink a few more cups with my meal. Wasn’t until I was in my forties that I had to stop drinking it after noon if I wanted to get a decent amount of sleep.) -
Have you ever taken a break from coffee?
No.
- Hot, couple drops of monkfruit extract to sweeten and a splash of cream.
- Home, drip coffee maker.
- Not really. Currently we have Kirkland brand French roast coffee beans, which I think makes very good coffee.
- When I very infrequently go to a place like Starbucks, I just get a regular coffee. No coffee-flavored milkshakes for me, thanks.
- As a kid it seemed like a grownup thing to do. I liked the smell way more than the taste at first, but with generous amounts of milk and sugar at first I gradually acquired a taste for it.
- Every day, usually just a couple cups in the morning.
- No. I don’t consider it a bad habit. I don’t drink so much that the caffeine has a negative effect on me, and coffee contains antioxidants so I consider it to be good for me in moderate amounts.
Possibly, but I’m really not a coffee snob, because anything that gets out of the bad category is good enough for me. For store bought mass-produced whole beans, I’m sure grinding can happen a week or so in advance of brewing, and if frozen, probably much longer. I’ve definitely had coffee which has lost some of its flavor due to age.
The times I really notice a difference, and all of the sudden the coffee snob rules start to matter is the very few times when I’ve used freshly hand roasted beans. All of the sudden the stuff about blooming, grind size, and such make a difference that even my unrefined pallet can easily detect.
Really, the only thing that’s necessary (for me) to have a good enough cup of coffee is use enough grounds, and adequately hot water.
I’m not a coffeel snob, either, I just like my coffee to be good and flavourful and not taste like mud. I agree with you about mass-produced coffee. I have yet to find any coffee that I like either pre-ground or in the form of beans in ordinary supermarkets. You may have missed it but the coffee beans I’m referring to are freshly roasted in-store in this particular supermarket (which is the same one that also has their own stone pizza oven).
These are not mass-produced pre-roasted beans. Finding the fresh beans I like (they used to have signs on some of the bins saying “just roasted today”) and then grinding them in one of the store’s machines to exactly the right fineness for the filter drip method and then storing the ground coffee in the fridge in an airtight container is what works for me. I’m not trying to dissuade you from what works for you, just saying what works for me. In the grand scheme of things, I don’t find that fresh grinding at home is a particularly important part of the formula for great coffee, but maybe that’s just me.
I drink decaf just because I like the taste and don’t want a ton of caffeine. I drink an entire pot (about 60oz) a day that I make at home. I use a regular drip coffee maker.
The aeropress makes the best coffee I’ve tried, but its too much effort and not worth it.
We do have a lot of these sorts of queries on the Board! I always play. 
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Almost invariably hot, though I don’t mind it iced now and again, with about a half a cup of low fat milk heated so as to not have lukewarm coffee. No sweetener.
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Home because I work from home. Once in a great while when I have no option to make and bring my own, I will buy it from a good place, such as the aforementioned Dutch Bros. When I travel, I bring everything I need to brew my own.
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Very particular, whether due to good taste or habit, I’m not sure. I’ve tried to buy less expensive brands and tried many different roasters. But I always come back to SLO Roasted French Roast and have done for more than 40 years. I have them ship it to me 10 pounds at a time and keep it in the freezer.
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I don’t see the point of Starbucks. They’re selling something, but it ain’t coffee. We do have several locally owned coffee houses in my area that sell good stuff, and I do go to them on occasion. If no other options, I’ll drink nearly anything coffee-like without complaint.
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As kids, we were never prohibited from drinking coffee. I tasted it when very little (4-5, maybe?), then started drinking it black around age 9. I didn’t become a coffee fanatic until around age 13, when I met a worldly friend who taught me about good roasting, grinding and brewing. I grind daily with a burr grinder and use a manual pour-over cone and carafe. Each grind yields 2 large cups of coffee. I drink the first fairly quickly when I start my day, then heat the second (sans milk) and sip it throughout the rest of the day. I don’t mind if it gets cold and am often finishing the second cup around dinnertime.
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Everyday drinker and whenever I feel like it.
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Never, except if required for a medical procedure. When the procedure is over, finding a cup of coffee is my top priority. I’ve never suffered any ill effects from drinking coffee daily and I hope I never do! It’s an important part of my life.
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- Hot, powdered non dairy creamer ( CoffeeMate ) and artificial sweetener ( stevia leaf ). 20 to 25 ounces, essentially two large mugs.
- I make it at home.
- I prefer Illy brand, but as a fall back another rich dark roast will do.
- I have nothing against “overpriced coffee shops” as such, except that I like drinking coffee made at home, my way, with my coffee/water ratio, and my choice of condiments, rather than take my chances out and about.
- As a child seeing adults drink it, and the tantalizing aroma, the taste ( w/sugar/cream ) appealed to me, though my parents strictly forbid it until I was in my mid teens.
- Everyday drinker. As long as I can remember, I’ve never been a morning person and I need a big shot of caffeine to roust me from a post sleep stupor. It is nearly unthinkable that I should rise and go into the day without the aroma beckoning me ( my coffeemaker is set to turn on and brew at my normal waking time ) and especially the stimulant it provides. I rarely drink it elsewhere unless sometimes after a splurge dinner in a restaurant or if I occasionally find myself feeling run down at work.
- No, not really, not unless a medical condition precludes it.
- How do you drink your coffee? Hot, Cold, Iced, Black, Creamer, Sugar/Sweetner?
- However I can get it Usually a tiny bit of sweet creamer and no extra sugar
- However I can get it
- Do you make it at home or do you buy it on your way to work or out in public?
- Make it at home. We have free coffee at work but you get what you pay for, it’s weak and kinda gross
- Are you particular about the brand of coffee and where you get it from?
- Not particular, whatever is on sale at the store usually
- What are your opinions on overpriced coffee shops? Like Starbucks and local shops? What are your opinions on drinks that look like milkshakes/lattes?
- I rarely drink coffee outside of home but there are a few things at Starbucks I like. The milkshake/latte drinks often have too much dairy for my lactose intolerant self.
- What got you into coffee? Your first time trying it?
- My Granny got me into coffee. She always had a pot of coffee on from the time she got up until she went to bed. I was probably 15 or 16 when she started pouring me a cup too when I was visiting.
- Are you an everyday drinker or whenever you feel like it?
- Everyday… gotta have it in the morning.
- Have you ever taken a break from coffee?
- Only when I had to before a surgical procedure. I was miserable.