I like coffee I drink it black with to spoons of unrefined brown sugar
twentyfive
Living well and enjoying my retirement
But I hate Starbucks, mostly I make coffee at home, I hade been using a Cusinart Grind and Brew with whole beans usually Colombian but it broke a few months back, so I dug out a Keurig that someygave me as a gift a while back and I really isn’t quite as satisfying as fresh ground brew. Recently I got a package of Maxwell house k-cups seems to be better than most. Anyone else use a Keurig and what brands do y’all like
Got something to say?
Start your own discussion
46 comments
I have a hand grinder and french-press that makes really great coffee. The whole beans from Starbucks are actually pretty good.
;) :)
What type of Biscotti do you recomend?
NO Homo
There's good aficionado-wise and good guy-who-hates-anything-bitter-wise :) Seriously, I'm going to guess that you'll load up your coffee with cream and sweetener (I call it the coffee-flavored liquid donut :), in which case, I find the chains mostly the same. Starbucks is easily my least-favorite, Peet's is better. Truly great coffee is made at home, or by smaller chains or independent shops, but I think that once you're putting in cream and sweetener, it really levels the playing field, like if you're drinking margaritas instead of straight tequila there's a point where the fruit juice and syrups overwhelm the quality of the tequila. In my area, you can get great coffee from Philz or Blue Bottle, both of which have multiple stores, but they're still small -- your area has similar shops. If you want to do a little research for your area, go on yelp or google with "third wave coffee shop" as the search phrase, and you'll probably have a better chance of running into really good coffee.
Bitter and overpriced
To me they are the equivalent to Walmart.
We've got a couple of local owned coffee shops. On a Saturday morning if I'm running errands I will go to one of those instead.
Referencing NYC there was a coffee shop on the corner of Lex and 53rd right next to what use to be the old Metropolitan Hotel ( now a Doubletree I think) that had about the best coffee I ever had in the 48 states.........Hawaii is in a class of its own when it comes to coffee. You could watch the skirts go by and drink coffee outside or in one of the window booths.......spent a lot of 7AM-9 AM's there when I worked in the city.
I pay $15 for some awesome tea that I drink daily which last over a month. The taste is better and the side affects are less damaging than coffee. In fact tea has many added benefits, more so than coffee. They both can make me shit regularly before I start the day, but at least I don’t want to kill someone when they annoy me after drinking coffee.
When we lived in Dade County, my wife and I would frequently hit that strip for a different sidewalk cafe to test the cappuccinos and people watch. It was a long time ago, but the Pelican was our favorite. Unlikely that it's still there
On the other hand, put in enough steamed milk and sugar, and it's fine, I suppose
Cream and sugar? Fuggedaboudit!
When I’m in the mood for coffee, I head down to Margo’s XXX Coffee & Shoe Polish Palace where cute young baristas wearing minimalist uniforms made entirely of dental floss serve up wonderful hot coffee and do an udderly fantastic job of shining my boots while I sip my coffee.
Drop by some evening and let one of the gals buff it for ya while you enjoy your cuppajoe!