The Unofficial 2009 Coffee poll.......

[Mikekoz13]

I'm a relatively new coffee drinker. I just started drinking coffee last Spring. I hate to admit but I'm a bit of a coffee snob. I've tried the regular store brands and they are just not very good to me. I buy mine from a Coffee Roaster and have it ground.

I've tried a lot of good coffees but my absolute favorite is a Kona blend that my roaster makes. He blends 1/3 Kona with other high quality beans. It's called the "Ultimate blend". I'm drinking a cup right now. MMMM!!!!!!!

So what's your favorite Cup O' Joe and why?

[Sly Red]

My favorite at the moment is Dark Roast Organic Guatemala from Spike's in San Francsico.

http://www.spikescoffee.com/

I got addicted to this coffee last fall when we were there on vacation.  Spike's is the same coffee shop location that was there when I lived in San Francisco twenty years ago.  It was called Java Road then.

I've been a coffee drinker since I was five years old.  No kidding.  We start our habits young in the south.  Nothing like a good cup of coffee and a cigarette before toddling off to kindergarden.  JK about the cigarette.  

Red

[D.A.L.U.I.]

Cafe du Monde, dark roast with chicory--we cold drip it, then mix that concentrate w/ milk and nuke it.  Best cafe au lait you can have, imo.  Otherwise, I'll use an Italian canned 100% arabica bean expresso, and make a double shot latte--we got an expresso machine years ago as a gift.  Outside New Orleans, double shot latte.  The old expression, translated from French, says that coffee should be hot as hell, black as the devil, and sweet as love. 

[Sly Red]

The old expression, translated from French, says that coffee should be hot as hell, black as the devil, and sweet as love. 

en Francais, si vous plait.  I'd like to keep that one for reference.

merci,

Red

[D.A.L.U.I.]

The old expression, translated from French, says that coffee should be hot as hell, black as the devil, and sweet as love. 

en Francais, si vous plait.  I'd like to keep that one for reference.

merci,

Excuse my spelling, Chaux comme l'enfer, noire comme le diable,  et  doux comme l'amour. 

Red

[Sly Red]

Merci mon ami.  I'll run it through my French spell checker.

Red

[andrew]

Coffee is my hobby, oddly enough ...

I have a small commercial roaster (want a bigger one) and roast my own beans once a week.  I usually have about 40-50 lbs of green beans on hand.  My favorites are Sumatra, Indonesian, Kenya, Bolivian, Mexican, and Columnbian.  At the moment I have 4 different kinds of Columbian. My overall favorite is Columbian from one specific farm.

I roast some espresso blends and make Americanos and Lattes, both iced and hot.  I brew everything else via drip or press pot.

I've modifed most of my equipment (roaster, grinder, and brewing machines) to suit my needs better.  Yes, I have coffee issues but my friends and family benefit ....   

[aarrggh]

  Whatever they have at the local  " KWIK-E-MART " on the way too work.........
  I can only assume its nothing but the best......................!

[wpruitt]

Just something nice and soothing about good old traditional Maxwell House.  As Teddy Roosevelt said, "Good to the Last Drop".

[slyatlast]

Just something nice and soothing about good old traditional Maxwell House.  As Teddy Roosevelt said, "Good to the Last Drop".

No..I think that was Otis on the Andy Griffith Show.

[aarrggh]

Just something nice and soothing about good old traditional Maxwell House.  As Teddy Roosevelt said, "Good to the Last Drop".

No..I think that was Otis on the Andy Griffith Show.

    Wait a minute---I think it was Grady on " Sanford and Son "......

[Tyler]

None.  I figured if I made it through college without drinking coffee I could make it through life.

[Nonick]

Well, I'm addicted    and it's easy to quit; I've done it many times! 
Some days, I just have to have coffee- any coffee!     Usually, I'll get heard saying "just give some coffee, and nobody will get hurt"   
Other days, especially on a day off, if I've slept in and don't care to wake up, I might not even drink any that day (blasphemy!)   
Given this range, I've had most everything from gourmet to whatever the coffee club drinks at work!   
There are some great coffee flavors out there, and if you're a coffee drinker, I encourage you to try them all- from coffee in foreign countries (my favs so far have been Jamaica and Germany) to some of the unique American flavors (fresh New Orleans with Chickory...and a local pastry!).   
Drink on my friends, drink on!

[D.A.L.U.I.]

(fresh New Orleans with Chickory...and a local pastry!).   

The pastry you refer to are beignets--square fried squares of yeast dough, sweetened w/ powdered sugar just after being cooked, sort of like a square donut--always eaten hot, generally w/ cafe au lait.  C'est si bien!

[DaDi]

Nestle iced coffee (frappe)
and French coffee (vanilla - hazelnut flavor mix)