Favorite Brand of Coffee?

[Cbaddad]

A really nice mellow "nutty" coffee is Trader Joes New Mexico Pinon Coffee. It is decidedly not a high end deal. It is preground and it is not a dark roast, but it the slight nut-like / hazelnut flavor is something I like. It is a cheap, but decent change of pace coffee.

 

[kenmcchord]

For the last 5 years or so we've been ordering coffee from a place in Alaska, Kaladi brothers coffee. Love their Big Wild Life and Kaladi Cafe. All organic, great blends and great roasting. Shipping is comparable to most anywhere else, and it's usually at my door in 2-3 days.

http://www.kaladi.com/

 

[reelmower]

I agree ... Rhumbline ... that's what I was trying to tell everyone .. too.

 

[passedpawn]

Local roaster in St. Pete, Kahwa, mkes a roast called Sirocco. It's rich and very smooth, with no acrid bitterness. Perfect for me.

 

[JonM]

I am so spoiled here in Milwaukee because we have a really good local roasting company that has awesome coffee and cafes all over town - Collectivo, formerly known as Alterra. http://colectivocoffee.com/

I stopped at the roasting facility yesterday to grab a pound. My favorite seat in the house is where you can watch the guys running the big roasters.

 

[Mad4sax]

I roast my own, buy fair trade beans of all origins.

Same as I do.

My favorite supplier of green beans is Dean's Beans

:rockin:

 

[Zuljin]

Way back when, I used to roast my own. Well, I didn't really 'roast' them. I cooked them on my stove top, shaking them in a cast iron frying pan. With all the doors and windows wide open, of course... coffee beans start smoking when they're close to done, and the smell settles into drapes and carpets like you wouldn't believe. But I've gotten lazy, have significantly less free time than I used to have, and I've lost my sense of shame.

My favorite coffee is whichever of two brands of espresso happens to be on sale at my local supermarket. For the life of me I can't remember their names; one comes in a yellow can and the other in a green can.

Of course, nowadays I make my morning caffeine fix strong enough to crawl out of the cup, then add a good jolt of instant hot cocoa mix to it. So any nuances would probably be lost on me anyway....

When I'm on the road and hit a convenience store that has a powdered 'cappuccino' setup, I usually start with a shot of hot chocolate. Then I fill my cup to the halfway mark with English toffee if it's available, French vanilla if it isn't, and finish it out with brewed dark roast coffee (or regular, if the place doesn't have the dark roast).

An Alaskan I knew on another forum always referred to anything besides straight black coffee as 'foo-foo' coffee; he used to make me feel like I should be donning a tutu while I sipped my morning libation.

Yellow can? CDM? Do they still make that?

 

[SurfChris]

Mmmm nice, beer and coffe, my type of peeps. I have a Crossland CC1 espresso machine and Baratza Preciso, next grinder will pry be the HG-One with that lovely titan burr set lol. I have friends come in and stay or just over in general and they say I've spoiled coffee for them, personally I think places like Charbucks etc suck balls.

Some roasters I like: Fair Mountain Coffe Roasters, Metropolis, Klatch, Stumptown, Red Bird, and bunch of others I'm forgetting. Currently have some El Salvador Red Bourbon beans from an ebay roaster, nothing special as a shot, but great in milk. I like finding more of the unknown smaller roasters. Like Green Roast Coffee in Redondo when we fly into LA and hed to San Diego, too bad they don't ship.

Recent batch of Metropolis Redline was ridiculous, def ordering again. So good and chocolately, even my wife and friends kept asking if I added anything as especially in milk strong chocolate notes came out.

I never buy anything at a store or grocery market, if it has a sell by or use by date... run, all those beans are stale and sitting in bags for 3-12+ months, and generally so far burnt all you taste is nasty roast/ash flavors and not the bean (hence Charbucks, they burn every bean to have consistency, even if that means awful coffee, as they are so large and high volume they use the poorest quality/highest defect beans). Guess I'm a beer snob and coffee snob haha

 

[blizzard]

Yellow can? CDM? Do they still make that?

I had assumed he was talking about Bustelo.

 

[HoppyDaze]

Enjoying an Antigua Guatemala blend right now. Very, very good.

 

[paperairplane]

Go to killerbeans.com
Order a pound of their Medellin Madman
Make a pot in a French press
Come back here and thank me

 

[SurfChris]

I like Dunkin Donuts and you can buy that at the grocery store now. If you want the stronger stuff, you can get a bag from Starbucks, but it'll cost more

Starbucks is about the weakest, they burn their bbeans beyond charred leaving little caffeine, the darker the roast the less caffeine. Try some fresh roasted medium or light, not bought in a grocery store, you'll get a caffeine wallop lol. Plus Charbucks taste like liquid cigarettes.

 

[roastquake]

Enjoying an Antigua Guatemala blend right now. Very, very good.

For years I would say that my favorite was Antigua. Now I'm hooked on Ethiopia Harrar Oromia, the only coffee I've had with distinct blueberry aroma

I was lead roaster at MoonBeans Coffees for three years before starting my new career, so naturally, that's my favorite

 

[eddieb33]

I like Peet's Italian roast. It generally gives you a lot of the deeper roasty flavors without any of the burnt taste a lot people complain about with Starbucks. Nicely balanced.

 

[garcia]

Dodd coffee from Houston, Cuvée from Austin, and Brown from San Antonio. I love Texas.

Those are my usual 3 usual buys.

 

[jglazer]

Oh man if we are talking favorite coffee (not local), I've been across the entire US and back and I think Stumptown in Portland is by far the best coffee I've been able to find EVER. Locally speaking in North Carolina, Joe Van Gogh is excellent and so is Counter Culture.

 

[roastquake]

Counter Culture is quite awesome

 

[HoppyDaze]

Oh man if we are talking favorite coffee (not local), I've been across the entire US and back and I think Stumptown in Portland is by far the best coffee I've been able to find EVER. Locally speaking in North Carolina, Joe Van Gogh is excellent and so is Counter Culture.

Shhhhhh

 

[johnydavis-12]

Gevalia and Dunkin is my favourite coffee.

 

[taoisilent]

Larry's Beans: Mightier Mocha Java blend in my presspot

 

[jglazer]

Ah Larry's Beans, another great local coffee. We are quite fortunate here in the triangle area with top notch options

 

[knyland]

Love me some Dead man's Reach Ravens Brew.

 

[YabbaDabbaBrew]

Well I kinda consider myself a coffee snob.I roast my own beans, I have a Baratza Virtuoso grinder and a Technivorm brewer. Sometimes I don't have time to roast and I
found in of all places, BJ's wholesale beans from Papua New Guinea. It comes in a 2 lb bag and it costs only 10 bucks! It is hard to beat and I find myself roasting less frequently now.


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[rickastleyjr2]

We have some great coffee roasters in North Carolina. Raleigh to be exact. There is a small coffee epicenter here with some roasters that really know their stuff. Joe Van Gogh is a favorite.

Grinding your own beans is one of the easiest and most cost effective ways to get great in-home coffee. After the bean is ground it begins to oxidize, loosing its freshness within a short span of time(hours, if not minutes).

 

[adiochiro3]

Mariposa Coffee Company
2945 State Hwy 49 S
Mariposa, CA 95338
Phone number (209) 742-7339

Specifically their 49'er coffee. Some of the best I've ever had.

 

[johnkona]

Coffee has become a daily part of my life.

 

[Broham1]

Stumptown

 

[aspiffymofo]

Ristretto Roasters in Portland.

 

[w0732400]

Jittery joes, Athens GA


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[Whut]

Mocha-Java from Macy's European Coffee House in Flagstaff.