I’m late to the thread, but after we dumped the Keurig a year ago, we’ve been experimenting.
My most common go-to now is pour-over, which I commented on here. I also got an Espresso machine for Christmas, and we’ve been using that and quite like it.
And then finally, we were in TJ Maxx the other day and they had a Brandini moka pot for $10, and we thought what the heck, let’s give it a try, and it’s been a delight. There is something satisfying about watching the coffee bubble up into the chamber.
Two years ago the kids pitched in and got me a Virtuoso+ burr grinder, and I’ve been experimenting with that. One thing I’ve been trying lately is using an almost-espresso grind fineness for pour-over, which takes several years to get through the paper filter, but it adds a sharpness (bitter? acidic? I can never tell) that I like.
For espresso or the moka pot we foam milk and I add a half teaspoon of sugar; for pour-over I just use half n half and a splenda, and that’s in my roughly 420 grams of coffee.
For coffee itself we’ve tried a bunch of different ones, but landed on a medium dark roast shipped to us from Shelburne Falls coffee roasters.
It’s fun to try different stuff.