Black, no flavors and if a horseshoe will stand up in it, it's just about right.
__________________
"We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." George Orwell, English novelist
Hummm any way depends on the mood sometimes I need it to be black no sugar strong, sometimes with a little french vanilla and sweet and low, when it's my wife making it its just plain instant with sweet and low and some milk!
I see that this original post is a little old, but it seems to be regaining popularity, just like the horrible throw backs of the Broncos, HAHA. I like my coffee black and strong. I tend to make my coffee like an old cowboy I knew, he knew the coffee was done when he threw a horseshoe in the pot and if it stood up, IT WAS DONE BOYS! I used to drink a pot a day, now its about 2-3 cups a day, unless I am hunting with my best friend who drinks so much coffee he pees double shots. (hunting I usually drink a pot)
I usually go black with a 1/4 cup of Coffemate Hazelnut Creamer. My favorite coffee is course ground Columbia Supremo steeped in a French Press for ten minutes. Once you try coffee where no paper filters are involved, and water has more time to extract the coffee flavor, you'll see what i'm talking about.
__________________ One Big A$% Mistake America
"The Mountains are the means, the man is the end; the idea is to improve the man, not to reach the top of the mountain."
if it's that good through a French Press then why flavor it with coffeemate, sorry, just thinkin out loud. melita at home or in camp always black and strong. my buddy scolded me at camp one time for not bringing sugar ( I'm camp cook, w/kitchen,et all) and my reply was "why ruin good coffee with flavors, maybe you should drink tea or something else".
Petes Major dickinson black, hot, strong .
__________________
remember, the field mouse is fast, but the owl sees at night.
if it's that good through a French Press then why flavor it with coffeemate, sorry, just thinkin out loud.
If you directed this towards me, I don't use creamer when the coffee was made in a French Press. It tasted so good it didn't need anything else. Now when I run it through a paper filter, and remove all the flavonoids, I add creamer.
__________________ One Big A$% Mistake America
"The Mountains are the means, the man is the end; the idea is to improve the man, not to reach the top of the mountain."
I like it with cream and fake sugar - I hate drinking sugar!!
BTW, Starbucks is awful. They burn their beans and it shows. Give me Folgers, MJB, Yuban, or regular coffee. If Starbucks is so good, why put all that girly foo-foo stuff in it?
__________________
If you want to help someone learn to hunt.... call me!
There's only one way to drink coffee----BLACK no additives, no foo-foo flavors. When I made coffee in the Chief's mess there was only 2 or 3 other guys that would drink it. The others complained it was too strong.
Like my dad told me...There's only one thing to do with a weak pot of coffee. Dump it out and make a new pot.
He only drinks one cup a day now but that's because he has a cup of espresso. Not a little espresso shot cup but a coffee cup of espresso.
I use 8 o'clock brand whole beans, ground fresh, little sugar, and half and half. 2 cups a day, one at the table and one on the ride to work. Any more than that and it's too many trips to the head. S/T
__________________
We don't know, WHAT we don't know.
SC how do you roast your own beans? From what I've seen it's done in something that looks like a cross between a furnace and a clothes dryer.
I use a slightly modified hot air popcorn popper. Nuthin' fancy. If I can do it, anyone can. Wifey won't even let store bought coffee in the house since we started roasting our own.
I like it in all forms. Black, latte, with cream and sugar, it really doesn't matter. Just depends on the mood. I will pay $5.00 for a good cup and don't apologize for it. There isn't anything better than a Starbucks, my laptop, and some big project I need to get through.
__________________
Troll
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government"
-- Thomas Jefferson, 1 Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334
If you directed this towards me, I don't use creamer when the coffee was made in a French Press. It tasted so good it didn't need anything else. Now when I run it through a paper filter, and remove all the flavonoids, I add creamer.
sorry kit, didn't mean anything personal, my hunting buddy and my brother both use a french press and they add all kinds of stuff and I ask them if that thing is so good why add stuff.
__________________
remember, the field mouse is fast, but the owl sees at night.
Blue bottle coffee - If you're in the bay area it's the best stuff around (arguably the best stuff around period). I always take it with cream and sugar.
.
