Not picky, but prefer instant coffee to plunger stuff. The supermarket aisle’s always clearer around the instant coffee section as well, which is a blessing, while everyone else is in animated discussion around the other section debating as to which neatly wrapped foil block they’ll be taking home this week.
Wow!
I disagree with all of that.
Some beans are best when they exhibit their veriatal highlights in a lighter roast and others shine a bit darker where they have deep body and chocolate tones.
Beans per cup is what it is and there are plenty of beans that “go the distance” with plenty to spare in a light roast. High toned African beans come to mind. 
Black. Strong. French or Italian roast. Freshly ground.
Yum! I’m gonna brew me a cup right now!
I would probably like milk or cream, if there was a way to keep it at room temp. I like my coffee to be HOT the entire time I’m sipping it.
I’m not that picky about it.
I recently started grinding it fresh every morning. The whole beans are cheaper than ground coffee in cans and it takes no time at all to grind it myself. I can definitely taste the difference.
I’ve also started putting in a splash of heavy cream in. During the holidays, cream is cheaper, so it’s one of Life’s Little Luxuries that makes the morning worth it. I’ve also switched to Splenda from Equal, so the coffee tastes sweeter with less sweetener added.
Robin
As someone who often goes without enough sleep, I’m not overly particular about my coffee, so long as it’s hot.
My favorite coffee, though, is Gevalia with just a pinch of cayenne pepper.
I’ve been going with organic coffees lately, ground at the store, so it’s usually not sitting ground for more than a week, and I keep it airtight at home. With the right bean, I’ll take it straight black. The wrong bean, and it gets sugar and milk. I’ll pretty much drink any coffee with cream and sugar, though I suffer through the really dark roasts (that’s all starbucks coffee, and those labeled dark/french roast at other coffee houses).
I’m not picky at all. I’m perfectly happy to drink the stuff that sits around for hours at the office, and not only will I buy coffee in cans rather than grinding beans myself, I occasionally save some money by getting the cheap-ass store-brand.
I’m not picky. I’ll drink most kinds of coffee, even instant in a pinch, although there are some kinds I’ll enjoy more and will choose over others when they’re available. It depends if I’m drinking coffee for the wake-up factor or for the whole coffee experience.
Mostly, though, it’s all about Tim Hortons. Sure, a nice strong dark roast made with fresh beans at a swanky cafe is wonderful… but something about that paper cup full of caffeinated goodness keeps me coming back to Timmy’s.
And yeah, I’m a sissy and use a little cream and sugar with my coffee. Real cream and real sugar, though, not the sweetner and “non dairy powdered crap creamer” stuff.
At home I’m picky- A fresh-ground medium Central American blend with a sprinkling of cinnamon made in a french press (thank god for the travel-mug french press!) served black or with a spash of vanilla soy milk if the coffee is counting as breakfast. Anything else will sit in my cupboard for a long long time and be served to guests I dislike and saved for desperate times.
But out, I’ll drink anything. When I’m too lazy to make coffee (oh, that horrible afflication) I’ll happily drink the swill they serve at the coffee shop down the street. I think Denny’s coffee is divine. I refuse to buy prepared coffee from fancy coffee places, much prefering to save the money and go to the gas station to pick up a cup.
I still can’t stomach sugar and cream. Always makes bad coffee taste worse to me. I’m much more a fan of drinking it straight and getting it over with.
I’ll drink pretty much any coffee as long as it isn’t weak. Preferably with milk or half-n-half. Folgers or any instant need not apply.
Ah, the coffee paradox–glad to see that others know of it!
Daniel
Worse than too lazy is when I just woke up and I can’t possibly pull myself together enough to make coffee until I’ve had at least one cup of coffee.
:smack:
Thank the universe at large for automatic timer coffee pots.
I tried milk in my coffee this morning. I think I’ll stick to the nasty creamer powder. the milk was okay, but I’m used to my coffee having a little more texture.
From november thru December, we do Egg Nog.
Yeah, I’m picky. It has to be from the dunk.* Anything else gives me an acid reflux attack. I like it with milk, no sugar.
- Just in case there are some poor ignorant heathens out there who don’t know what I’m talking about–I am, of course, referring to the legendary DUNKIN’ DONUTS
I appreciate good coffee, but I’m in no way picky or snobbish about it. I’d like it if it had a little cream and just a pinch of sugar. If it’s more or less made from coffee beans, it’s got caffeine in it, and hopefully it’s mostly hot, I’ll shut up and drink it. Between my years in college, and traveling around the world in the military, all I care about is it’s coffee.
Tea? Yuck.
Coffee snobs? Y’all bug me. Like coffee that’s not prepared jussssst how you like it is gonna upset your poor widdle tummy. Don’t drink coffee if you’re than tender-bellied. Move to England and drink tea! Grr.
levdrakon maybe you need to take a break from the coffee for awhile. 
I can drink instant coffee, but I think of it as a hot beverage rather than coffee. I can drink cheap coffee, that smells like a roasted skunk. And if I needed coffee to get going in the morning, I would probably have to get the skunky type. But I drink coffee for the flavor, and usually have it in the afternoon.
Oh I was mostly just teasin’ anyway.
But seriously, I go to Starbuck’s once in awhile and to hear some of the customers carry on. These people react with horror if their double latte skim foam cinnamon sprinkle whatever-it-was-they-order doesn’t come just perfect.
But ten years ago these people hadn’t ever heard of Starbuck’s, and just because they’re now the post-Starbuck’s generation, they think they know good coffee, mostly because Starbuck’s taught them what they think should be good coffee.
It’s all good. 
At work they installed a little one-serving Van Houtte machine and a large supply of little coffee charges for it.
That stuff gives me horrible acid stomach feelings and makes my head buzz. I stopped drinking coffee because of it, and now I’m always sleepy.
I think I’m going to get another french press and start taking a cannister of ground beans to work. The horrid singleserving press does have an effective hot water dispenser on it.
I actually really dig the little cream buckets from Denny’s, with half a packet of real sugar.