Hiro11

Costco's House brand "Kirkland" ground coffee is my favorite. It's 100% Arabica, comes in a giant three pound can for about 7 dollars, has an extremely fine grind and tastes much better than Starbucks, IMO.

jumping doris

I like Eight O Clock coffee, hazlenut flavour.
Illy is good, too
I also look in TK Maxx as they sell coffee sometimes. At the moment the are selling Godiva coffee and it's very nice.

Mostly though I like my cup of Earl Grey.

Pony

You get used to it, its an acquired taste I think. I hardly ever drank coffee in the UK, I preferred tea. The Mrs (born in the US) makes coffee so strong your spoon stands up in it. I am a hopeless coffee addict now. I have 4 mugs every morning, two at home and 2 in my to-go cup. Our coffee machine is set to make a pot before we awake. Our coffee machine died a few months ago and had to be sent back under warranty to be repaired - shaken by the experience of not waking to coffee I bought a back-up machine - I think I need checking in for detox.

If I don't have a coffee then I get a terrible headache. I am more than sure it is unhealthy, but I am a caffeine junky

I used to buy speciality coffee, but I like it so strong now that it seems pointless spending good money on it - once you hit saturation level they tend to taste the same. I just buy folgers medium dark or dark. I do enjoy a Starbucks triple shot latte, but thats just all that milk they make it with.

Hayley

have to admit- even though I'm a heathen I hate the taste of most coffee here. I know it's gourmet or whatever but it all tastes burnt to me. I miss the mild taste of instant coffee from back home. The only thing I've found coffee wise that I like here is the international coffees in instant form- french vanilla mocha I think it is.
Add milk and bob's your uncle.

That being said- although I don't like coffee, I drink it all the time at work because-
a. who can be arsed to make tea for just themselves (and where would I get the hot water from anyway?)
b. Peer pressure
c. They want their pound of flesh and I need a kick up the jacksie to get me going at 6am.

cranners99

I use one of these:
http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/produ...seBVCookie=Yes

have done since they came out and will buy one Stateside when we get there. Fresh coffee every time.

C

Yosser

me too...we went to Maui in the summer and bought bags of the Kona...great stuff.

TruBrit

so did we

Bob

I'm so lucky....they installed a hot water dispenser when we moved into this new office when they got the cold water dispenser and nice coffee machine

seem to have converted a few to drinking tea, and they also get PG tips for me, bless

Bob

the proper expensive stuff or the dodgy mixed stuff? the dodgy fake stuff they sell in Sams' club and BJ's ain't that shite for the money...

Ray

I tried all the brand until Joycee found my favourite
would you believe Publix own brand special roast ...

Mallory

i like that too. and it's a bit cheaper.

Circus-of-Power

The wife always drank the Folgers classic roast ... it took my instant saturated taste buds awhile but I love the stuff now ...

cindyabs

I make a "special" coffee on Sunday, like Starbucks, Seattle's Best, Christopher Bean or Kroger's Private Stock line etc, all bought whenever on sale. We just bought a pound of Jamaican Blue Mountain while in Ocho Rios on our cruise and I'm looking forward to that. I've never had coffee that knocked my socks off when in the UK, mainly it was instant and it tasted like instant. IMHO not the best way.

Water does make a difference-I grew up on spring water and that's what I like best.

cindyabs

Wow Bob, you must be special!! That's nice they do that for you. My dad's mother (from Mass), was American born and bred, but she only ever drank tea. However, since both her parents came over from the UK that's what she grew up with.

TRPardoe

I cannot remember the last time I drank instant. It's one of the things I dislike about going back across the pond. All my friends still use it.

Your first mistake is not making a fresh pot. If it has been sitting on the warming plate for over 20 or 30 minutes it is done for.

I like stong flavoured, dark, robust coffees. The ones I am getting right now are "Don Francisco" and "Yuban" - both Colombian.

If you want a mild, generic, American coffee pop into a Dunkin' Donuts and try theirs. They sell the Ground Coffee as well as the drink.

p.s. when I worked in the Engine Room on QE2 we used to make our coffee with Evian water. Much better than the stuff we made ourselves even though we could get that straight from the Fresh Water Generator without the chlorine added.