What's your favorite brand of coffee, or do you stay away from caffeine?

[True Dough]

I'm not a coffee drinker. Never have been. So none of the above for me.

I don't have to rev up my engine every morning with multiple cups of coffee. It's just up and at 'em. My wife needs a couple of cups, minimum before she can get going. And then, if we are driving anywhere, we have to stop to find a washroom in short order because she will invariably need to go pee.

No, coffee, you do not have your grips on me!

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	Folgers
	8 (9%)
	Maxwell House
	2 (2%)
	Dunkin Donuts
	8 (9%)
	McDonald's
	0 (0%)
	Starbucks (Starbucks makes Costco's Kirkland brand, BTW)
	10 (11%)
	Green Mountain
	6 (7%)
	Peet's Coffee
	8 (9%)
	Nescafe
	1 (1%)
	Other
	43 (48%)
	I do not drink coffee
	3 (3%)
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[True Dough]

1. For you coffee lovers...

[Niagara]

37. My kind of person...drinking coffee straight from the carafe

[2naSalit]

42. That's why I make mine one big mug at a time!

That could totally be me ten years ago.

[rzemanfl]

2. Basic Eight O'clock whole beans ground at home for each pot. n/t

[pansypoo53219]

91. 8:00 columbian beans. but the best hands down is valentine or torke.

if i use my victorian hand crank grinder its as good as valentine's. i have an old stove top drink-o-later.

[BootinUp]

3. Teal'c. Isn't that hot?

[CousinIT]

4. Cameron's

Specifically, Jamaican Blend.

[Cairycat]

5. We get our coffee at Aldi

not the cheapest stuff, but what comes in vacuum packed bricks. I drink it black and husband drinks it about half coffee, half half & half. Got to have my coffee in the morning, a cup in the afternoon is great if I'm not too busy, and when my Monday night group meets at a local coffee shop, I have a decaf latte.

[EverHopeful]

54. I don't do it quite half half and half

but loved seeing "half half and half" there on the screen

[thomski64]

6. ..Tim Horton's...

...if it's not available in your area,
consider moving.

[True Dough]

7. That's the dominant brand

in Canada.

[thomski64]

19. ...so Health Care and great coffee..!!

[PJMcK]

8. Whichever brand is on sale (n/t)

[indigoth]

9. Dunn brothers.

In store roasted. I’ve bought coffee that was roasted less than an hour before I walked in the door. Nothing in any grocery store is as fresh. Not even close.

That being said, Peet’s is pretty good.

[bucolic_frolic]

10. Boiled coffee whatever brand is on sale

Right now into IHOp

Boiled because that's the method used for many centuries on Greek Island where they live to 122. More brain chemicals in boiled coffee.

Of course boiled is frowned on in North America. They want to sell coffee makers and filters.

[jimfields33]

11. I'm surprised Maxwell house is only my vote.

It could be it’s considered old fashioned today due to the wide assortment of various coffees.

[sinkingfeeling]

17. I have only used Maxwell French Roast for the last 35 years.

[jimfields33]

20. Nice! What a nice way to wake up and begin the day.

[Diamond_Dog]

12. I never buy coffee out. Huge waste of $

Eight O Clock made at home is my go-to. If I feel like splurging I occasionally buy a bag of Peet’s Big Bang.

[jimfields33]

21. Couldn't agree more. Some places charge 3.79 for breakfast.

Spit! lol.

[Croney]

13. This just arrived in the mail, and I'm expecting it to be the best!

[Bitbit]

14. Community Coffee - Family owned in Baton Rouge,

Louisiana since 1919

Only available in Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida,
North & South Carolina. Also, Hawaii

[Docreed2003]

53. 👆 this

Community rules at our house!

[BOSSHOG]

76. That's all I drink

Delivered to our home in Kansas via fedex. Excellent turnaround service.

[if..fish..had..wings]

15. Fair Trade beans

Grind them every morning.

[Botany]

16. Yeah Me Too. It is a little coffee shop and roaster in the Clintonville area of Columbus, OH

A real hippy coffee place. Open to the public on Saturday in the AM. The rest is an on line biz.

https://yeahmetoocoffee.com/

Some people say it is the best coffee in the world.

https://www.yelp.com/biz/yeah-me-too-coffee-clintonville Pix @ link.

From the heart of The People’s Democratic Republic of Clintonville.

[dhol82]

18. I drink decaffeinated coffee

And tea. Have done so for at least thirty years. I really love the taste of coffee, just can’t take the caffeine.
My preferred one is Kurig Donut Shop decaf. When I’m feeling ambitious and overspent, I get some Viennese Sumatra at my local coffee roasters.
For tea, I drink a lemon ginger herbal.

[Duncanpup]

22. I been drinking instant of late I'm a real masochist

Green mountain breakfast blend K cup.
Why bother using percolator or Keurig son likes coffee yet he doesn’t drink it like I and my wife did.

[Squeaky41]

23. Our favorite

black coffee or double espresso from Death Wish Beans

[cloudbase]

24. Caribou.

I can't buy it here in Houston, so I have it sent from Minnesota.

[True Dough]

25. That's devotion!

Sent by the truckload?

[cloudbase]

50. I only wish I could get a truckload at a time.

Even my wife, who's more of a tea drinker, likes Caribou.

[Jirel]

28. High 5!

Caribou is yummy. For a little while, well after I moved from MN to TX, Caribou Coffee showed up in Einsteins’ Bagels here. But they made the drinks differently than in the real Caribou stores, like basic, cheap chocolate syrup versus the 3 different options of chocolate chips. All the drinks totally tasted different than they should. So no surprise, the Caribou setups disappeared. I only get real Caribou treats when visiting up north now. (But I mail order Caribou grounds for brewing at home.)

[cloudbase]

49. Back at ya!

[Shermann]

59. Caribou used to be my favorite when I lived right near one.

You don't see it much in supermarkets anymore, either.

[maptap22]

26. gevalia

[quaint]

27. Two cups Green Mountain, brewed in a press, in the morning only.

[Mike Nelson]

29. Paul Newman's brand...

... it's organic. Only one cup though, and no caffeinated sodas. I know people who drink caffeine all day. How do they do it without bouncing off the walls?

[True Dough]

38. Stay away from those Red Bull, Monster and Rock Star drinks

at least drinking them on the regular. Not good.

[Americanme]

30. Favorite coffee

Leelanau Coffee Roasting Co, Lakers blend. Best I've ever used.

[CanonRay]

31. Winco, Columbian light roast

1 cup in the a.m. most days. Cold rainy Dat, maybe two.

[hlthe2b]

32. Do you mean NO caffeine too? (no tea, soft drinks, energy drinks, caffeine tablets, chocolate or OTHER stimulants?)

EVER?

As to coffee, given I am up well before it gets hot, I usually drink black coffee. For some time I've been drinking:
New England Coffee Chocolate Cappuccino, Medium Roast, Ground Coffee. Honestly, I don't taste the purported chocolate cappuccino flavor--it just isn't bitter with a fairly nondescript flavor--and I make it as a pour-over.

[comradebillyboy]

33. I drink whatever instant decaf my local grocery store

has on the shelf. A good dose of half and half makes it taste better.

[doc03]

34. It was Paul Newman's but recently it has

disappeared from the store where I shop. I have been buying Green Mountain Dark.

[Silent Type]

35. Drink the cheapest K-cups I can find, usually shipped. Keep thinking of going back to grinding beans.

[Niagara]

36. Eight O'Click 100% Columbian Peaks Whole Bean Coffee

I have food intolerance sensitivities so I can't eat whatever I want all willy nilly.


I generally intermittently fast for roughly 18 to 19 hours on the daily, but not every day.


My name is Niagara and I'm a coffee fiend. ☕
I also have to pee like a racehorse. 🐎

[True Dough]

39. You and my wife

are kindred spirits in that respect!

[Niagara]

40. It's good to know that I have a fellow kindred coffee spirit, True!

☕

[Voltaire2]

41. Jim's Organic nt

[2naSalit]

43. I now mail order...

My favorite roast from the tiny touristown roaster where I used to live.

Organic, fair trade... I get 5lbs of beans at a time, last me about 5 - 6 months and is a better deal than the five or six roasters' products from around here and only two of those offer fair trade coffee. I'll spend a little more to support fair trade and local small businesses.

[gademocrat7]

44. Blue Mountain Blend

We buy it at Costco.

[Cirsium]

45. Higher Grounds

"High quality coffee is sustainable only through a human-centric approach. It's a simple idea. And as we like to think of it, our secret recipe for the best cup of coffee in the world. We provide coffee drinkers with the opportunity to engage in a cycle that begins with, and returns to, our partners in coffee-growing regions. We’re fully engaged in that cycle, sourcing coffee directly from farmers through ownership of our importer Cooperative Coffees and circling back to the farmers and their communities via our sister nonprofit, On the Ground."

https://www.highergroundstrading.com/pages/purpose

Support those who support the same causes that we do.

[Beringia]

46. I no longer drink coffee, I never really liked it. I take caffeine pills now

[arkielib]

47. Angelino's

Moka Java blend, medium dark roast. “Moka” to distinguish from “Mocha” I guess.

One cup in the morning wakes me up.

[Kali]

48. I may be a beer snob, but folgers is fine for one cup in the morning.

[SWBTATTReg]

51. 1 cup a day, Maxwell Instant Coffee.

[Glorfindel]

52. Chock Full o' Nuts, dark roast

Runner up: Folger's Black Silk. I wouldn't want to imagine life without coffee!

[Farmgirl1961]

55. I buy organic green (unroasted) coffee beans

And roast them myself… best coffee ever!

[Pinback]

71. Your kitchen must smell like paradise!

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Care to share recipe/tips for home roasting? I grind organic whole beans and do pour over a cup at a time. but haven’t gone further down the rabbit hole -- yet!

[Farmgirl1961]

89. We started out simple

We bought a used air popcorn popper for $3.00, bought a couple of pounds of green organic coffee beans on Amazon and watched a video. After a few months, we bought a JAVASTARR air popper on sale in Amazon for about $60.00. I then started buying my coffee beans from Burman coffee roasters. We used the JAVASTARR for about a year, until the motor died. About 2-3 months ago we bought the SR-800 roaster and the extension tube.

It’s been a fun learning process. We log each roast with respect to fan, power and time. It usually takes 10 minutes to roast 8 oz.

[Pinback]

90. Thanks!

Never knew you could use an air popper for coffee beans! Sounds like fun.

[fierywoman]

56. I used to buy Peet's French Roast from Mr Peet himself in Berkeley (mid 70s -- he accepted food stamps!)

Then I was fond of Illy (I lived in Venezia). Now I'm fine/delighted with Costco French Roast (cost per pound similar to Peet's French Roast in the 70s!!!)

Yes, I like strong "burnt" coffee -- get over it.

[WhiteTara]

57. I like french roast coffee

the stronger, the better. I experiment with coffee from various countries.

[JoseBalow]

58. Bustelo

[True Dough]

60. New one to me

Just Googled it and I see it's owned by The J.M. Smucker Company.

"Big food" moves in and takes over everything, it seems.

[JoseBalow]

62. If you want an espresso in Miami, you ask for a Bustelo

It's ubiquitous in Cuban communities.

[Glorfindel]

80. That's good stuff! I sometimes mix it with

Folger's or Chock Full o' Nuts.

[Bristlecone]

85. I've been on a Cafe Bustelo kick for the last 2 mos.

I love it via pour over.

[Xoan]

61. SUMATRA

[GreenWave]

63. Need I say more?

[True Dough]

64. Quite the marketing campaign

they must have!

[GreenWave]

65. And I need the 5 pound bag!

[Skittles]

67. I like variety

I like lots of different brands, but dislike Starbucks.

[SeattleVet]

68. Buy almost all my coffee at Costco...either Starbucks of Kirkland French Roast, whichever is on sale.

Slightly different roast/flavor, both really good.


But I was thrilled when I figured this out!

[SeattleVet]

77. Side note: For several years all I drank was Kona Peaberry. We stocked up every time we went to Hawai'i.

After our first trip when I discovered this magical substance we stopped by a friend's place to drop off some orchid plants. I waited in the car, and my wife came back out to see if I wanted to join them for a cup of coffee. OK...went in, and as I raised the cup to my mouth and got the first bit of aroma I said, "Oh, Kona!". My wife looked at the friend and said, "I told you he'd know." They had also recently returned from trip to the Big Island.

Our freezer held a lot of sealed bags, but the price has gotten so out of hand (last time I checked, my favorite Ferrari Kona Peaberry was something like $70/12 oz.) that I haven't had any in.a few years.

[Dear_Prudence]

69. 'This is Your Mind on Plants'

authored by Michael Pollan has a chapter of around 79 pages on the effects of caffeine. I read it, I don't remember what he wrote, but I remember thinking "nothing you could say can tear me away from my" cuppa.

[The Wizard]

70. Mayorga Cubano available at Costco.

[bottomofthehill]

72. Dunks

Light and sweet

[Mme. Defarge]

73. I say coffee is medicine.

Definitely my morning antidepressant and anti-inflammatory drug of choice. It also helps with digestion.

[sakabatou]

74. At home, Safeway Select

When I'm out of the house, it's Peet's.

There is one I WANT to try: Phase Connect.

[wishstar]

75. Chock Full o' Nuts decaf because to me its less bitter

had to switch to decaf years ago due to acid reflux, but still occasionally have full strength if need energy or for a treat

[pansypoo53219]

92. i do everything i can to de-bitter coffee. lighter roasts, but more grounds for stronger. burr grind corse grind best.

add some salt. i also use a lot of 1/2 + 1/2 or whipping cream + in winter i addtoffee/butterscotch. in summer hazelnut flavoring. cousin introduced me to cafe de leche. oh. i make this all the time.
oh. valentine is light roast. least bitter. costa rica my favotite.

[spooky3]

78. Tennis fans know Jannik Sinner is now pushing Lavazza.

I’ll try it if they have decaf.

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[yourout]

79. We do our own because we sell large commercial coffee roasters and have our own roastery.

My son has a very nice Guatemalan medium roast that's very popular.

[Different Drummer]

81. I have several brands that I like.

Right now, it's Chock Full O' Nuts, but I also like Gevalia, Eight O Clock, and Maxwell House.

[wendyb-NC]

82. I picked other

I like any of the brands that you listed, and the others, not listed. I like Caribou, "Lake Shore" blend but I also enjoy the Folgers, "Simply -Smooth".
I'm a coffee junkie. I have coffee since I was 3 years old. I have been making, pots of coffee since I was 4 years old. Growing up, my parents used a percolator to make it. That was in the 50's through the 70's. After that, we switched to drip coffee, in the mid- 1970's. That is all.

[jrandom421]

83. The true American coffee

Full Kona, from Hawaii, but at $40/lb, only for special occasions!

[demosincebirth]

84. Costco's kirkland

[True Dough]

86. Interesting

that we're at close to 100 votes and nobody has voted for McDonald's.

Rotten Ronnie's is the #1 burger chain in the world (by volume, not quality) and yet they could never get coffee right.

[MaryMagdaline]

87. Starbucks French Roast

[ProfessorGAC]

88. Dunk8n

I can tell a really good coffee from another, but I'm not that fussy.
My wife, though, only wants Dunkin, so that's what we buy.

[Polybius]

93. I'm not a huge coffee guy, so I buy whatever K-Cups

Nothing super-cheap, just whatever. Sometimes Starbucks, sometimes DD, and this week IHOP brand.

[malthaussen]

94. Anything black and dark. n/t

[jmowreader]

95. Wilkins Coffee, of course

In 1957 John Wilkins, who ran a coffee company in Washington, DC, found out the FCC required occasional ten-second gaps in television broadcasts...and that those short blocks of time could be sold to advertisers. He got his advertising agency to find someone who could make him a bunch of memorable ten-second spots; the advertising executive found an up-and-coming puppeteer named Jim Henson.

Henson had an interesting concept: two Muppets, one named Wilkins - who liked the coffee and who sounds and looks like a young Kermit the Frog - and Wontkins - who did not - would appear. Wilkins would invite Wontkins to have some Wilkins Coffee. Upon Wontkins' refusal an act of senseless violence would be perpetrated upon his fuzzy little body. This part took eight seconds, followed by a two-second beauty shot of a coffee container with some text overlaid on the frame. They eventually made about 150 of them. The spots were popular with little kids so Mr. Wilkins started selling Wilkins and Wontkins puppets, which were also very popular.

These spots were so popular John Wilkins wound up licensing them to companies outside the National Capitol Region to advertise other things - meaning he was probably making more money from renting out Jim Henson than he was selling coffee, and he was making a ton of money doing that. These spots led to great things for Mr. Henson, like Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, The Dark Crystal and The Labyrinth.

So...the entire Henson empire was founded on violent coffee ads.

Since you can't buy Wilkins Coffee at all anymore and you never could buy it outside Washington, DC, I've been buying whole-bean coffee from Trader Joe's. It's not the cheapest coffee and definitely not the finest coffee, but I like it fine.