I like coffee I drink it black with to spoons of unrefined brown sugar

I have a cuisinart grinder. I usually get the DD pound bag of beans, but I got some Starbucks gift cards recently so trying some of those. The Komodo Dragon is pretty good.

I also got a Keurig as a gift and it sits there in the basement, gathering dust. Convenient but the coffee is awful. Giving it to Goodwill.

I have a hand grinder and french-press that makes really great coffee. The whole beans from Starbucks are actually pretty good.

I don’t have a Keurig but I may have to try the brown sugar thing. That’s sounds like it could be good.

Keurig is shit coffee. But a lot of guys love Pabst, and Keurig is the Pabst of coffee. Then again, coffee is one of the few things I'm a snobbish about as beer ... I almost never use a drip machine, as those make the Miller & Coors equivalent of coffee, but do sometimes use one.

Dayumn Subra don't hold back, let your inner Ricky Dugan out, with a humble brag and a cheap shot at the same time ; )

Fuck yes! It feels good man, you should try it every now and then!
;) :)

i go to starbucks for the extras

Also, when I make coffee, I always wear skinny jeans and an infinity scarf. Which is probably nicer than your infinity scarf.

Ok, I’m a Neanderthal. I just drink whatever coffee is around.

@ subra
What type of Biscotti do you recomend?
NO Homo

I only drink Kopi luwak but it is difficult to find.:)

I don't drink coffee, but I respect the guys who I see drinking 50 cent gas station out of a styrofoam cup coffee more than I do anyone drinking starbucks or some $5 a cup from a barista coffee.

I'm not a big coffee guy, drink it mainly for the pick-me-up vs being a connoisseur - I don't like bitter-tasting anything and probably why I've also never been a big beer-guy - straight black-coffee is usually not my thing.

Is there any coffee-shop chain that is good coffee-wise?

Papi just goes to Starbucks to stream porn.

^ you make that sound like a bad thing

Papi's got his new VPN so he's all set

^Years ago in NYC there used to be a chain of coffee shops (luncheonettes) called Chock Full Of Nuts, their coffee was delicious.

I think that Chock Full O'Nuts is available in stores.

Ha I think one of my Uncles did sales for Chock Full Of Nuts coffee in Upstate NY. I remember there were like always Chock Full of Nuts shirts and stuff distributed all over the family. I bet there are still some floating around.

Hey Papi, look for a Peet's Coffee in your area.

-->"Is there any coffee-shop chain that is good coffee-wise?"

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.

@25 prefers Sack with a Pair O'Nuts.

^Fuck you fruity

LOL

I don't use the loser bean.

^LoL

I like my coffee like I like my women.... Hot Strong and Black

And I would rather have gas station coffee than star bucks.... I know the difference, I can taste the difference, it is just not that important to me. I do enjoy Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee when I can find it pure and not as a blend

-->"I like my coffee like I like my women.... Hot Strong and Black"

Bitter and overpriced

The way I’ve used that line more than once is “black and sweet”

I drink it black with sugar in the raw

It will put hair on your chest that way

I usually order a latte from Starbucks since I don't like to drink it straight and will usually order it w/ vanilla so I don't have to use sugar.

I had a waitress tell me she liked her coffee like she likes her men..... ground up and in the freezer.... stopped eating there

^^^ oooooooooh shit!!! Not brilliant!

I personally hate Starbucks --the small town I live in didn't have one until just a few years ago and they have already moved it twice because it hasn't really taken off like most of them do around the country.

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.

If you just like people watching the News Cafe on ocean drive in Miami Beach makes a good cuppa joe , and sitting in the front on the porch area you see some of the finest eye candy in this part of the world.

I try to be efficient, so spending onStarbucks experience never was understandable in my opinion. I love coffee and the buzz it brings, but I get way too jittery without wanting punch someone so I stay away.

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.

These days, I just do instant. That's about as much as I can "cook".

@25
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

I’m a coffee snob. Starbucks is ok but I think it’s kind of one dimensional and burnt tasting. I don’t like keurig but nespresso is good for pod coffee. It’s drinkable at least.

I think Starbucks coffee sucks I don’t get the popularity it’s bitter, and I don’t like it, DD is much better tasting in my opinion but that’s far from my preference also

I'm not much of a coffee drinker. Just occasionally on a cold morning like this morning. I stopped at Mickey D's and had a sausage biscuit and a small coffee with 2 sugars. It was OK. Then I went to Kroger to do my weekly grocery shopping. It has a Starbucks located inside and as usual there were no customers to be seen. What a waste of space.

AGree with you about STarbucks. For being upscale coffee, it is genuinely badly done. I don't think it's things like the equipment or raw materials like beans, it seems to be poor roasting and then it goes from there. The stuff is only drinkable as a coffee-flavored liquid donut, which might account for the zillion variations of coffees that include caramel, whipped cream, etc. Their straight espresso shots are not good, and their drip coffee is downright terrible.

On the other hand, put in enough steamed milk and sugar, and it's fine, I suppose

I don’t know shit about different kinds of coffee beans or whether dark roast is best. I don’t give a rat’s ass about caramel macchiatos or espressos.

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!