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Vote for one "at" statement, one "by" statement and one "with" statement.

Or vote for three at's.  Or two by's and one with.  I don't care.  Have fun.  Try to learn something.  Leave me alone.  Where's my damn caffeine?

Maybe next year the question will be "how do you brew?"

http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2017/01/09/keurig-wants-to-brew-your-own-budweiser-at-home.html

If I have time in the morning, I'll either do a French press or pour over before I head to work. If not, I'll use the nespresso in the office.

No shortage of decent roasters out here but to be honest I have next to no palate when it comes to coffee.

Unapologetic coffee snob here.  My coffee either comes from my near commercial quality espresso machine at home - after years of practice - or from a really good local shop. 

The latter option was unavailable in Rochester until a couple years ago, as the best we had were places like Starbucks and Dunn Bros.  Fortunately, a local family opened up a place with a barista who really knows what he's doing, and the quality has gotten really good in the past couple of years.

I'm also very particular about where I go when I travel.  Fortunately, I have a few go-to places in Milwaukee and Minneapolis (the places I go most often).

I find it ironic that 'at home' isn't an option.  Less than a generation ago, I'd bet most folks had that first cup there with some form of breakfast like cereal, fruit or mom's bacon and eggs.

There was no, "I don't coffee and I hate the taste of it, but I do drink a lot of hot tea" option. I feel left out....I need a safe space now.

Quote from: mu03eng on January 09, 2017, 04:32:54 PM
There was no, "I don't coffee and I hate the taste of it, but I do drink a lot of hot tea" option. I feel left out....I need a safe space now.

I believe that's called Teavana.

Quote from: mu03eng on January 09, 2017, 04:32:54 PM
There was no, "I don't coffee and I hate the taste of it, but I do drink a lot of hot tea" option. I feel left out....I need a safe space now.

I'm with you.  Coffee is absolutely disgusting to me.

Quote from: jsglow on January 09, 2017, 04:29:39 PM
I find it ironic that 'at home' isn't an option.  Less than a generation ago, I'd bet most folks had that first cup there with some form of breakfast like cereal, fruit or mom's bacon and eggs.

Yet, he has a "with a Keurig" option - I'd guess the majority who use them do so at 'home'.

Quote from: brandx on January 09, 2017, 04:35:37 PM
Yet, he has a "with a Keurig" option - I'd guess the majority who use them do so at 'home'.

He also has "by myself of my spouse" option, which seems to imply at home.

Quote from: GooooMarquette on January 09, 2017, 04:38:46 PM
He also has "by myself of my spouse" option, which seems to imply at home.

Benny tries to start an interesting conversation - and we pick on him.


I like it ;D

We've got a drip brewer and a Keurig at work.  If I'm the first to arrive, I'll start a pot but get a Keurig to get me started (I'm impatient like that).  If there's already a pot made, I'll drink that.  My wife and I will brew a pot at home from time to time on a weekend, but it's certainly not a daily (or even weekly) thing.  I'm not particularly picky when it comes to coffee.

I was to go to coffee brewer for late LIMO shifts. Mostly because I was like one of 2 people who would drink it that late, but I just enjoyed doing it.

I've really been interested in getting into cold brewing because sometimes I am in the mood for cold coffee instead of hot.

Anyone on the board have any experience with cold brewing?  Any recommendations?

I'm partial to Starbucks Italian Roast that I make just before leaving my office in a drip brewer so that the timer turns the machine on in the morning so it's ready when I walk in the door.

I am down to just two addictions in life; coffee and cigars.

My Starbucks order is 4 venti coffees, each with double shot espresso.

I buy the beans and make the same home recipe; a 14 cup pot of coffee and 2 4cup espressos (8 shots).

This lasts me two days, each time; and I dont drink any coffee on the weekends...by Sunday I get normal sleep. lol

My parents were Minnesotans and true to their Garrison Keillor  roots there always was a pot of coffee on, during all waking hours.

Garrison Keillor --Coffee Jingle

Smells so lovely when you pour it
You will want to drink a quar't
Of coffee.

It's delicious all alone, it's
Also good with doughnuts.
Black coffee

Coffee stimulates your urges
It is served in Lutheran churches
Keeps the Swedes and the Germans
Awake through the sermons
Have a pot of it today
I'm sure you'll say it's awfully
Good coffee.

Black

Don't drink coffee, hey?

Quote from: GooooMarquette on January 09, 2017, 04:38:46 PM
He also has "by myself of my spouse" option, which seems to imply at home.

still talkin 'bout coffee? or did i wander off to a different topic?? :D

My next cup will be my second.  Doubt it ever happens.  Love the smell.   

4 Shots of espresso before I leave the house - makes everything right in the morning

primarily home drip with local roasterie's beans, when i go out it's normally to meet someone and the 'big' locally owned place is loud as ef so i go Mom and Pop coffee house/bakery. 

Black at home, latte extra shots or chai with a couple espresso shots away.

I've got 3 makers at home (traditional [no chicos], Keurig & Nespresso), but this month I'm putting Caribou out of biz. They had an all you can drink in January tumbler for a net $30... there's about 90 of them within a few miles of me. I stop in a couple/few times a day for a refill

I don't drink coffee sirs.

Coffee is a caffeine delivery system for me.  If it still tastes like coffee I don't have enough junk in it

I started drinking coffee every morning when I was in first grade (Boston - extra cream).  Now I drink it chicos non-traditional. Gotta have my coffee, the darker and stronger the better. Just started playing around with a Bialetti Stovetop Espresso Maker.

Quote from: g0lden3agle on January 09, 2017, 05:21:57 PM
I've really been interested in getting into cold brewing because sometimes I am in the mood for cold coffee instead of hot.

Anyone on the board have any experience with cold brewing?  Any recommendations?

I use this for my cold brew,  it works fantastic.

https://www.amazon.com/Hario-Mizudashi-Coffee-Maker-1000ml/dp/B001VPXEBU

Quote from: mu03eng on January 09, 2017, 04:32:54 PM
There was no, "I don't coffee and I hate the taste of it, but I do drink a lot of hot tea" option. I feel left out....I need a safe space now.

And so ...

You and I have one MORE thing in common, mu03.

I have tried two sips of coffee in my life. The first was decades ago from my mom's cup and I thought it was the most disgusting thing I had ever tried. About 3 years ago, realizing that tastes change and seeing how much my wife loves her java, I tried a sip of hers. It just didn't work for me.

I also dislike coffee ice cream, coffee-flavored candies, etc.

I do enjoy tea - black tea, green tea, herbal teas of many flavors. My daughter used to work in management at Starbucks and she would occasionally get me some Teavana. The flavor she chose (can't remember what it's called now) was delicious, but prices there are outrageous!

I'm fine with a cup of plain ol' Lipton, a squeeze of lemon and a half-teaspoon of honey. Costs about 3 cents and works just fine.

Oh, and I go through a crapload of iced tea. Several servings a day, sometimes just with lemon and sometimes with lemonade for an Arnie Palmer. Always sipped from either my Marquette or Panthers tervis cups.

Quote from: MU82 on January 10, 2017, 07:49:08 AM
And so ...

You and I have one MORE thing in common, mu03.

I have tried two sips of coffee in my life. The first was decades ago from my mom's cup and I thought it was the most disgusting thing I had ever tried. About 3 years ago, realizing that tastes change and seeing how much my wife loves her java, I tried a sip of hers. It just didn't work for me.

I also dislike coffee ice cream, coffee-flavored candies, etc.

I do enjoy tea - black tea, green tea, herbal teas of many flavors. My daughter used to work in management at Starbucks and she would occasionally get me some Teavana. The flavor she chose (can't remember what it's called now) was delicious, but prices there are outrageous!

I'm fine with a cup of plain ol' Lipton, a squeeze of lemon and a half-teaspoon of honey. Costs about 3 cents and works just fine.

Oh, and I go through a crapload of iced tea. Several servings a day, sometimes just with lemon and sometimes with lemonade for an Arnie Palmer. Always sipped from either my Marquette or Panthers tervis cups.

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I think part of my issue is I just never grew up around it. My parents didn't drink the stuff so other than when I was with my great grandparents I wasn't around coffee drinkers

My wife loves her coffee as well. The thing that boggles my mind about coffee is how few people actually...ya know...drink coffee....since everyone adds a million things to it. My wife has no less than 5 different creamers in our fridge of all sorts of flavors. When I occasionally make her a cup of coffee on the weekends I know that creamer and sugar go in until the coffee looks like the desert. How is that actually coffee? I'd say at least 90% of the people who drink coffee in my office area at work(free coffee and tea which is nice) do so with at least one adder to it, with as many as three adders. Are they really drinking coffee?

Quote from: Dr. Blackheart on January 09, 2017, 06:31:32 PM
Black

Black & Sweet - Everyday the same way I first tried coffee as a 16 year old exchange student in France. 

Quote from: reinko on January 10, 2017, 03:41:44 AM
I use this for my cold brew,  it works fantastic.

https://www.amazon.com/Hario-Mizudashi-Coffee-Maker-1000ml/dp/B001VPXEBU

Thanks for the recommendation.  So you put in the recommended amount of coffee in the filter, fill it up with water, leave it overnight, and you have nearly a liter of cold brewed coffee ready for you in the morning?  Or is there more to it?  If I have a french press could I achieve the same results with that?

Quote from: g0lden3agle on January 10, 2017, 08:37:16 AM
Thanks for the recommendation.  So you put in the recommended amount of coffee in the filter, fill it up with water, leave it overnight, and you have nearly a liter of cold brewed coffee ready for you in the morning?  Or is there more to it? If I have a french press could I achieve the same results with that?

I've used the French press method. It works fine. Cold brewing like that yields a concentrate, so you'll have to water it down.

Quote from: mu03eng on January 10, 2017, 07:59:01 AM
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I think part of my issue is I just never grew up around it. My parents didn't drink the stuff so other than when I was with my great grandparents I wasn't around coffee drinkers

My wife loves her coffee as well. The thing that boggles my mind about coffee is how few people actually...ya know...drink coffee....since everyone adds a million things to it. My wife has no less than 5 different creamers in our fridge of all sorts of flavors. When I occasionally make her a cup of coffee on the weekends I know that creamer and sugar go in until the coffee looks like the desert. How is that actually coffee? I'd say at least 90% of the people who drink coffee in my office area at work(free coffee and tea which is nice) do so with at least one adder to it, with as many as three adders. Are they really drinking coffee?

I tease my wife all the time that what she really likes is sweet, coffee-flavored milk.  I drink mine black.

Quote from: mu03eng on January 10, 2017, 07:59:01 AM
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I think part of my issue is I just never grew up around it. My parents didn't drink the stuff so other than when I was with my great grandparents I wasn't around coffee drinkers

My wife loves her coffee as well. The thing that boggles my mind about coffee is how few people actually...ya know...drink coffee....since everyone adds a million things to it. My wife has no less than 5 different creamers in our fridge of all sorts of flavors. When I occasionally make her a cup of coffee on the weekends I know that creamer and sugar go in until the coffee looks like the desert. How is that actually coffee? I'd say at least 90% of the people who drink coffee in my office area at work(free coffee and tea which is nice) do so with at least one adder to it, with as many as three adders. Are they really drinking coffee?

Agreement from our family.  Two of us drink it black, two with a little cream.  Nothing fancy. Coffee.

I make a batch of cold brew each week typically using Dark Matter Barrel Aged Coffee Beans (in Chicago). I do a 24hr steep in water on my counter in a large glass container with a 10:1 ratio of beans to water. Usually 150g of beans to 1500ml of water. After that i filter through using my Chemex coffee carafe with a metal filter. That amount will typically get through a week. I then usually put 75ml of concentrate per 16oz glass with ice and water. Tasty stuff.

I will sometimes have a few more pour over cups in the office where we have Inteligencia since we use their coffees in our beers.

Quote from: Cooby Snacks on January 10, 2017, 09:34:09 AM
I've used the French press method. It works fine. Cold brewing like that yields a concentrate, so you'll have to water it down.

+100.

French press cold brew was the first and last time I'll ever O/D'd on caffeine.  And I used to eat espresso beans like candy in college (in my defense, they were covered in chocolate).  Took me two days to get back to normal. 

I like my coffee the same way I like my women:  hot and black.

We have a Swiss made machine that makes Cappucinos, Lattes or coffee at the press of a button. First thing in the morning I turn it on to warm up.

Quote from: Chili on January 10, 2017, 10:25:41 AM
I make a batch of cold brew each week typically using Dark Matter Barrel Aged Coffee Beans (in Chicago). I do a 24hr steep in water on my counter in a large glass container with a 10:1 ratio of beans to water. Usually 150g of beans to 1500ml of water. After that i filter through using my Chemex coffee carafe with a metal filter. That amount will typically get through a week. I then usually put 75ml of concentrate per 16oz glass with ice and water. Tasty stuff.

I will sometimes have a few more pour over cups in the office where we have Inteligencia since we use their coffees in our beers.

The Dark Matter Barrel aged beans are some of the best things I have ever tasted coffee-wise, even here in the PNW nothing has come that close for me.

Quote from: mu03eng on January 10, 2017, 07:59:01 AM
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I think part of my issue is I just never grew up around it. My parents didn't drink the stuff so other than when I was with my great grandparents I wasn't around coffee drinkers

My wife loves her coffee as well. The thing that boggles my mind about coffee is how few people actually...ya know...drink coffee....since everyone adds a million things to it. My wife has no less than 5 different creamers in our fridge of all sorts of flavors. When I occasionally make her a cup of coffee on the weekends I know that creamer and sugar go in until the coffee looks like the desert. How is that actually coffee? I'd say at least 90% of the people who drink coffee in my office area at work(free coffee and tea which is nice) do so with at least one adder to it, with as many as three adders. Are they really drinking coffee?

I hear ya, bro.

It's like when I was at Marquette and I'd ask someone where they were from and they'd say, "Chicago." Except none of them was from Chicago. They were from Arlington Heights and Buffalo Grove and Olympia Fields and Naperville. I was convinced the population of Chicago proper actually was 0!

Quote from: MU82 on January 10, 2017, 09:41:07 PM
I hear ya, bro.

It's like when I was at Marquette and I'd ask someone where they were from and they'd say, "Chicago." Except none of them was from Chicago. They were from Arlington Heights and Buffalo Grove and Olympia Fields and Naperville. I was convinced the population of Chicago proper actually was 0!

Still to this day people do that, and its just as annoying.

Anyways, currently enjoying a Fog Chaser k-cup with two sugars to get me through this first day of classes.

When I started at Marquette, it took me about...a day to figure out people from Chicago have a reputation in WI. Having grown up in Rockford, my response was always, "I'm from Illinois... not Chicago".  You could see a noticeable change in their reaction nearly half the time.

Quote from: ChitownSpaceForRent on January 11, 2017, 02:00:25 AM
Still to this day people do that, and its just as annoying.

I think that's pretty common, and isn't limited to Chicago. People often answer the "where are you from" question with a broader response when further from home. If I meet someone in another area and they ask, I'll tell them I'm from Cleveland. If I meet someone in the greater Cleveland area and they ask, I'll tell them Broadview Heights. It's actually a pretty typical (and sensible) way to handle the question.

Tea, green, no additives

Quote from: MUEng92 on January 11, 2017, 06:26:14 AM
When I started at Marquette, it took me about...a day to figure out people from Chicago have a reputation in WI. Having grown up in Rockford, my response was always, "I'm from Illinois... not Chicago".  You could see a noticeable change in their reaction nearly half the time.

I hear ya.  We've lived in suburban Chicago for almost 30 years.  But I still consider myself to be a Wisconsinite.  My favorite line......'My two favorite days driving to work are the two days after the Packers beat the Bears.'

Quote from: BrewCity83 on January 10, 2017, 12:37:40 PM
I like my coffee the same way I like my women:  hot and black.

You forgot,  "and ready for the cream"

Quote from: ChitownSpaceForRent on January 11, 2017, 02:00:25 AM
Still to this day people do that, and its just as annoying.

Anyways, currently enjoying a Fog Chaser k-cup with two sugars to get me through this first day of classes.

Yep, two biggest annoying habits for Marquette students I interacted with were:

if they were from Illinois "I'm from Chicago." "Oh, where" "Joliet" or "Naperville". :o I went to high school in a far NW suburb of Chicago and was always very deliberate in stating that up front but since I grew up all over, I probably didn't have that regional "I'm from Chicago" pride drilled into me.

if they were from Wisconsin, the habit of wearing Madison gear at any point during the basketball season especially but just generally wearing Madison gear on campus really ground my gears

Quote from: jsglow on January 11, 2017, 07:32:40 AM
I hear ya.  We've lived in suburban Chicago for almost 30 years.  But I still consider myself to be a Wisconsinite.  My favorite line......'My two favorite days driving to work are the two days after the Packers beat the Bears.'

Brings up a good question, when you travel around and someone asks where you are from what is your response?

I use to say all over because I never really lived anywhere longer than 4 years and never identified as from anywhere in particular. Now I generally respond as Milwaukee because I've lived here longer than anywhere ever, but I don't usually identify as a Wisconsinite....I think I'm weird.

Two enormous mugs of black, dark roast coffee every morning before leaving the house.  Don't touch it the rest of the day.

Quote from: mu03eng on January 11, 2017, 08:45:54 AM
Brings up a good question, when you travel around and someone asks where you are from what is your response?

I use to say all over because I never really lived anywhere longer than 4 years and never identified as from anywhere in particular. Now I generally respond as Milwaukee because I've lived here longer than anywhere ever, but I don't usually identify as a Wisconsinite....I think I'm weird.

Well, when I lived in Chicago - really in Chicago - for 16 years, I'd say "Chicago." I like to think that if I lived in Naperville, I would have said, "In the suburbs of Chicago" or something, but maybe I wouldn't have.

Now that I live outside of Charlotte, I get asked that a lot in casual conversation. I usually say, "I'm originally from Connecticut, but I moved here from Chicago."

My favorite where-are-you-from story:

I was on a flight outside the U.S. about 25 years ago and the guy in the next seat starts this conversation (as I remember it):

"So where are you from originally?"

"A town in Connecticut called Milford."

"Oh. Where's that?"

"It's on the Long Island Sound between Bridgeport and New Haven."

"I don't know where those are."

"Bridgeport is about an hour, hour and a half, from New York City."

"Oh! New York! Do you know (and he gives me some name)?"

Also, really enjoy Cuban coffee, but it's not the easiest to find in Kentucky.

Quote from: MU82 on January 11, 2017, 09:19:30 AM
Well, when I lived in Chicago - really in Chicago - for 16 years, I'd say "Chicago." I like to think that if I lived in the Naperville, I would have said, "In the suburbs of Chicago" or something, but maybe I wouldn't have.

Now that I live outside of Charlotte, I get asked that a lot in casual conversation. I usually say, "I'm originally from Connecticut, but I moved here from Chicago."

My favorite where are you from story:

I was on a flight outside the U.S. about 25 years ago and the guy next starts this conversation (as I remember it):

"So where are you from originally?"

"A town in Connecticut called Milford."

"Oh. Where's that?"

"It's on the Long Island Sound between Bridgeport and New Haven."

"I don't know where those are."

"Bridgeport is about an hour, hour and a half, from New York City."

"Oh! New York! Do you know (and he gives me some name)?"

Like you, I give my hometown in Connecticut and when they are confused I just say "I'm 10 minutes from Yale University."

Hope you all like your convenient coffee with a heaping spoonful of environmental guilt. Probably not new news to most of you, but the inventor of the Kcup regrets creating them.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/03/the-abominable-k-cup-coffee-pod-environment-problem/386501/

I'll admit I'm drinking a Kcup as I type this, although I try to avoid them most of the time.

Quote from: drewm88 on January 11, 2017, 10:09:40 AM
Hope you all like your convenient coffee with a heaping spoonful of environmental guilt. Probably not new news to most of you, but the inventor of the Kcup regrets creating them.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/03/the-abominable-k-cup-coffee-pod-environment-problem/386501/

I'll admit I'm drinking a Kcup as I type this, although I try to avoid them most of the time.

Instead of buying the overpriced and environmentally unfriendly k-cups, I buy my own coffee and a reusable pod that goes into the machine. problem solved.

Green Mountain Coffee (Keurig owned) offers a few varieties that come in recyclable pods if you dig their brews.

Grind-and-brew drip brewer using either Collectocash or Valentine coffee beans.

Quote from: Badgerhater on January 11, 2017, 01:07:08 PM
Grind-and-brew drip brewer using either Collectmycash or Valentine coffee beans.

Quote from: MU Fan in Connecticut on January 11, 2017, 09:59:07 AM
Like you, I give my hometown in Connecticut and when they are confused I just say "I'm 10 minutes from Yale University."

"Boulder Junction".
<blank look>
"Minocqua".
Oh, yeah, Minocqua.
Even from Sconnies.

Quote from: MU B2002 on January 11, 2017, 09:22:57 AM
Also, really enjoy Cuban coffee, but it's not the easiest to find in Kentucky.

That's a tough one outside of Miami (or Cuba).  We recently got a place here in MN that serves Cafe Cubano, and I was skeptical until I learned it's owned by a guy from Cuba whose mom makes the food and coffee.  Turns out to be the best I've had since Miami many years back.

Quote from: GooooMarquette on January 12, 2017, 05:11:12 PM
That's a tough one outside of Miami (or Cuba).  We recently got a place here in MN that serves Cafe Cubano, and I was skeptical until I learned it's owned by a guy from Cuba whose mom makes the food and coffee.  Turns out to be the best I've had since Miami many years back.

I can speak with some authority as I married into a Cuban family that lives in South FL.  They drink this:  http://www.cafebustelo.com/en (http://www.cafebustelo.com/en)

The website has a feature that allows you to find retailers near your ZIP code.  I searched my ZIP (northern suburban Atlanta) and found it carried in Kroger, Publix, Walgreens and more. 

Quote from: ATL MU Warrior on January 12, 2017, 05:27:15 PM
I can speak with some authority as I married into a Cuban family that lives in South FL.  They drink this:  http://www.cafebustelo.com/en (http://www.cafebustelo.com/en)

The website has a feature that allows you to find retailers near your ZIP code.  I searched my ZIP (northern suburban Atlanta) and found it carried in Kroger, Publix, Walgreens and more.

Walgreens, Target, CVS, Walmart...I was expecting it to be harder to find. Thanks!

Black filtered coffee is absolutely the worst. Same with Americanos. My taste buds separate the water from the grounds... both are undrinkable for me.

Recently discovered my go-to order is a dry cappuccino with just a little bit of sugar. The really good independent shops nail this.

At home I'll just make a cortado with my wife's Nespresso machine, milk and the microwave if I'm exhausted before work. No caffeine on the weekends if I can help it. Side benefit is the first sip Monday is like a turbocharger.

Quote from: Marquette Gyros on January 12, 2017, 11:32:07 PM

At home I'll just make a cortado with my wife's Nespresso machine, milk and the microwave if I'm exhausted before work. No caffeine on the weekends if I can help it. Side benefit is the first sip Monday is like a turbocharger.

Don't you get caffeine withdrawal headaches on the weekends?  I used to drink 4-5 cups per day at the office, but never on weekends, and would have a raging headache by Sunday morning.  I thought the cause might be being at home with the kids, until I recognized it as caffeine withdrawal.