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Favorite Coffee

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Ours is Dunkin' Donuts - original blend or hazelnut.
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Chameleon cold brew
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Whatever yummy single-geographical origin coffee the grocery store has on sale. Put coffee grounds in a paper filter in a plastic cone on top of a mug. Slowly pour hot but not boiling water out of a kettle over it. Drink black with breakfast.

I don't bother doing the math on how much more I'd spend if I bought coffee out. :sharebeer
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Kirkland Colombian Supremo (from Costco)

Thrifty Bogleheads take note: this coffee is finely ground, dark, and strong. You can use less scoops per pot than most other coffees and save $$$.

Oh yeah, it's delicious, too :D
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In a French press, two scopes of Dallmayer prodoma (100% Arabica) with one scope of New Orleans's French Market Coffee and Chicory. Add boiling water, wait 3-4 minutes then push down the press.
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I buy any ground Colombian coffee that's on sale. The only one that I've really objected to has been Chock Full O' Nuts which seemed to be pretty tasteless no matter how strong I made it.

[Pedantic note, Colombia is the country that produces coffee. Columbia is the university and city in South Carolina.]
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Aldis house blend.
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Peet's Major Dickason's Blend course grind in a French Press. My daily morning wake me up.
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I like Folgers Black Silk. Been thinking about using Cafe Altura Organic Dark Roast again to avoid all of the chemicals. I've read that coffee is one of the most chemically treated crops in the world. It would be nice to know just how much of that makes it into my sometimes 5 cups per day.
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The one I roast myself. Right now it's a Rwanda Kivu Kanzu, before that was Guatemala Huehuetenango Finca Rosma. I buy the unroasted (green) beans from a California-based distributor who purchases them directly from the farmers.

Pluses: Rather inexpensive coffee (Average $5/lb) that is fresher and tastes better than almost anything I can get at a store or coffee shop. Always roasted exactly to my taste, as appropriate to the cultivar.

Minuses: Up-front expense and learning curve (well past both now), involves some work. Completely ruins you for drinking lesser coffee. But I guess in a way that saves money too. :mrgreen:
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I really find Trader Joe's French Roast (the pre-ground version in bags) to be a great coffee, at a great price.

$3.99 per bag.
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A freshly roasted Jamaican Blue Mountain. Peet's Major Dickinson, which can be bought at a heavy discount at Costco, is also good. Best when brewed in Aeropress. Will also use a Black & Decker single cup auto brewer when pressed for time.
Since ER my morning cup of coffee has become something I really look forward to.
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Any recommendations for a low-acid coffee?
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Community Coffee dark roast - the lowest prices are generally mail order, often 20% less than Amazon.

Aldi's German Roasted Coffee, Medium Roast $4.99/ 0.5 kg.
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Organic is a must. Anything I put into my body on a daily basis better be organic... except beer.
My choice is the most flavorful inexpensive organic ground coffee that I can find anywhere, and it's available from Costco online:

San Francisco Bay Organic Rain Forest Blend
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San Francisco Bay French Roast Whole Bean Coffee from Costco

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lazydavid wrote: Pluses: Rather inexpensive coffee (Average $5/lb) that is fresher and tastes better than almost anything I can get at a store or coffee shop. Always roasted exactly to my taste, as appropriate to the cultivar.
It should be noted that unroasted green beans weigh much more than already roasted beans so not exactly apples to apples on the price per pound.
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Peet's Major Dickason (a dark roast), sometimes Trader Joe's Kenyan AA (a lighter roast)
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Folger's / Butternut at home. If I'm wild, mix in a little hazelnut.

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Medaglia Oro ground Italian espresso in a can. Super cheep at under five bucks for a 10 oz can. Run through a proper espresso machine - two double espressos every morning. I have found an espresso machine is super-efficient in extracting the maximum caffeine buzz per quantity of coffee used. Four small scoops of espresso coffee can yield either two awesome foamy double espressos or barely a quarter pot of weakass drip coffee. The choice is clear.

Drip coffee is too weak. I only drink it when there is no other option.
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Has to be the in-room Blue Mountain coffee at my favorite vacation resort in Jamaica.
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One of the best parts of vacation is waking up, making a couple of cups of Blue Mountain coffee, and sitting with a cup on the balcony watching the morning surf. Zoning out thinking about it.... (Zzzzzzzzzzz...)
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Greenwell Farms, Full City Roast.
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Ground expresso in French Press. It offends my wife's coffee sensibilities as she makes her expresso in old fashioned stove top Italian expresso maker. But I drink it like regular coffee. Only in the morning. Strong and good. Buy it from local farmer's market where Jamaican vendor supposedly sources from local roaster. By the way, the grounds are great fertilizer for Vanda orchids.
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There are two coffees that I drink repeatedly:

1. CoffeeBeanDirect.com Organic SWP Decaf City Roast Mexican
http://www.coffeebeandirect.com/coffee/ ... xican.html

2. Coffeeam.com Organic Decaf SWP Peru Coffee
https://www.coffeeam.com/organic-decaf- ... offee.html

Both are Swiss water process decaffeinated (but done in Vancouver, B.C.)

Most of it cold brew.
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Whatever I roast at home. :D
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Freshly roasted (about 2 day old) Sumatran brewed in an aeropresss. Love the chocolatey flavor.

Best cup of coffee was a $7 Kenyan I had at a very hip coffee bar in Lancaster pa. I highly doubted that any coffee could be worth 7 dollars a cup but the fragrance of blueberries and the beautifully balanced acidily still lingers after 2 years.
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I buy dark roasted coffee for espresso from CasaCurry, a small online boutique store. I've visited their facilities/farm and I'm familiar with the way they process their coffee.

That said, I don't drink coffee, it's all for my wife. Personally, I'm a tea man like Mr. Teatime.
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Hands down Jamaican Blue Mountain. I wish they came in kcups.
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Another vote for Jamaican Blue Mountain.
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Starbucks sumatra. Brewed at home only though. Too strong for my taste buds in store. Easy on my acid reflux as it's a low acidity coffee.
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lazydavid wrote:The one I roast myself. Right now it's a Rwanda Kivu Kanzu, before that was Guatemala Huehuetenango Finca Rosma. I buy the unroasted (green) beans from a California-based distributor who purchases them directly from the farmers.

Pluses: Rather inexpensive coffee (Average $5/lb) that is fresher and tastes better than almost anything I can get at a store or coffee shop. Always roasted exactly to my taste, as appropriate to the cultivar.

Minuses: Up-front expense and learning curve (well past both now), involves some work. Completely ruins you for drinking lesser coffee. But I guess in a way that saves money too. :mrgreen:
I considered getting into this, but there's a local store that roasts Sumatra in a way that I like. After a year or two, maybe I could learn to match it, but I'm more like your UserName than you are :D
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The last good cup of coffee (with a cookie) I had was free from my local local Savings & Loan when I last visited them in the 1980's. They went out of business and then Starbucks seemed to have take over. Would Starbucks have risen to their current position if the S&L's were still around offering free coffee (and a cookie) for just walking in the door? The S&L's usually they had a free copy of the Wall Street Journal to browse as well from a chair in the lobby.

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sdotsen wrote:Hands down Jamaican Blue Mountain. I wish they came in kcups.
Where do you get Jamaican Blue Mountain and how much does it cost?

Todd Carmichael, he owner of La Columbe Coffee has (had?) a TV show called Dangerous Grounds. It was a travelogue of his search for exotic coffees for his business to sell. It was a very interesting show even if it was largely a sales pitch for his company.

On one show he went to Jamaica to hunt down a supplier for Jamaican Blue Mountain. Unlike most of his shows where you could order from his company whatever it was he found, he chose NOT to sell JBM because it was so expensive he felt he could not make any money with it even though he was in the boutique coffee business. My memory is bad on this but I think he said he would need to charge $100 per pound. He said that Jamaica did not produce enough JBM to remotely supply the amount of "JBM" for sale on store shelves.
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I've been roasting my own since April 2003. This week it's Kenya Nyeri Othaya peaberry! I never buy preroasted beans, only green.
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Peet's French Roast, yes even here in NC. :D

We buy the whole bean version, storing the bag in the freezer, and then grind it each morning, which makes the house smell great. We brew it in a Bund brewer in a thermal carafe without a heating plate, so no burnt coffee.

We used to do the French press thing but read somewhere that mysteriously, it (has) worsened cholesterol levels, so we let it go. It's still the backup once every 2-3 weeks when we don't want to brew a full pot.
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matjen wrote:
lazydavid wrote: Pluses: Rather inexpensive coffee (Average $5/lb) that is fresher and tastes better than almost anything I can get at a store or coffee shop. Always roasted exactly to my taste, as appropriate to the cultivar.
It should be noted that unroasted green beans weigh much more than already roasted beans so not exactly apples to apples on the price per pound.
It depends on what your definition of "much more" is. There's about a 20% loss in weight when roasting coffee, i.e. one pound of green yields 0.8 pound of roasted. I've been home-roasting for 13 years and I've tested it. So green beans weigh about 25% more than roasted beans of the same batch.
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Locally roasted Costa Rican beans delivered to my door every two weeks, hand ground with Hario Skerton ceramic burr grinder, for one large cup from an Aero Press each day.
Tyler9000 wrote:Any recommendations for a low-acid coffee?
You may want to read up on the Aero Press. It is claimed that the process results in a much lower acid level in the final product.
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Another vote for Peet's Major Dickasons.

When it is on sale, I usually get Dunkin Dark. It makes a good cold brew, too.

Thanks for the suggestion on Blue Mountain, will look for that next.
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Tyler9000 wrote:Any recommendations for a low-acid coffee?
Tyler9000,

If you cold brew your coffee, it will be low acid. It is a function of the brewing process. Not the coffee itself.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... ecret.html

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Eight O'clock Dark Italian Espresso! We buy it when it's BOGO at Publix.
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Beck49 wrote:Locally roasted Costa Rican beans delivered to my door every two weeks, hand ground with Hario Skerton ceramic burr grinder, for one large cup from an Aero Press each day.
Tyler9000 wrote:Any recommendations for a low-acid coffee?
You may want to read up on the Aero Press. It is claimed that the process results in a much lower acid level in the final product.
Beck49,

I do not think so. I brew my coffee with both methods: cold brew and Aeropress.

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matjen wrote:
lazydavid wrote: Pluses: Rather inexpensive coffee (Average $5/lb) that is fresher and tastes better than almost anything I can get at a store or coffee shop. Always roasted exactly to my taste, as appropriate to the cultivar.
It should be noted that unroasted green beans weigh much more than already roasted beans so not exactly apples to apples on the price per pound.
Losses are about 16%, so I wouldn't use the adjective "much" there, though they are lighter (and larger) after roasting. 230 grams unroasted will wind up at around 195 grams (+/-5g) after roasting, depending on the cultivar and the darkness of the roast. However, the distributor is somewhat generous with their weights, so I tend to get about 42 230g batches on average out of a 20lb bag, when I should get less than 40. So it mostly comes out in the wash.

But you're right, I could conceivably be paying as much as $5.50-6/lb after weight loss is accounted for. Still a third or less than what I'd pay for some top-quality beans from Intelligentsia, and half of what Costco charges.
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San Francisco Bay-Organic Rainforest Blend beans @ Costco. Rogers family owned company.Super nice!
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illy Medium Roast - very good!
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Philharmonic from Philz Coffee is hands down the best coffee I've ever had.
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KlangFool wrote:
Tyler9000,

If you cold brew your coffee, it will be low acid. It is a function of the brewing process. Not the coffee itself.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... ecret.html

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Thanks! I'll have to try that.
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