I live for coffee. Love it, adore it, want to swim in it all day long. Which is why it hurts my feelings that my coffee hasn’t even made it onto this table:
In North America, I drink regular, unmessed with coffee with two sugars. And in Europe I drink cafe con leche (cafe au lait) which is NOT the equivalent of a Starbucks latte.
No Turkish coffee, either 😦
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I’m definitely doppio espresso.
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My closest personality equivalent is a latte. Which is what I drink if I go to a real, local coffee shop (not Starbucks or even anything that pretends it once looked at a Starbucks) in the afternoon.
In the morning, light roast in a standard drip coffee maker (because that’s what I can put on a timer) with half and half.
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I am a fan of mochas. I love the taste of coffee, I just think that chocolate goes well with it, silly chart.
I really, really want to try Turkish coffee.
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It’s pretty easy – just boil water, add coffee and let it sit in the pot for 5 minutes or so, then pour and drink. If you like your coffee sweetened, add the sugar in the water before you boil it – any mixing after mixing in the coffee will lead to coffee grounds everywhere in your drink. There’s fancier stuff you can do like taking it on and off boil or (if you’re really fancy) heating the pot in a tray of hot sand so you can keep it at not quite boiling temperature for ages and extract a ton of flavour out of it, but meh, it already takes 5 minutes.
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After camping I sometimes enjoy a double espresso
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I learned to love macchiatos in Rome…then I had one at Starbucks when I came home and I was COMPLETELY destroyed–can’t get a good macchiato here for anything. Sigh…
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I make coffee by pouting boiling water on the coffee grounds in a coffee pot — no fancy machines. I usually have it with one sugar or sweetener, no milk. So it’s just “coffee” with no qualifiers.
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I like a good filtered coffee in a normal mug. Black. Good quality coffee beans. I am happy.
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A BIG mug. The one I have now is of the size that almost allows me to swim in it. 🙂
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At home, I grind coffee beans and stick them in a coffee maker or a press depending on how lazy I am and how strong I want the coffee. When out I like cafe lattes, but my new favorite coffee drink is an undertow.
Actual Indian coffee is strong, sweet and milky and doesn’t have a bitter aftertaste.
IME, if a coffee bean is really bad, no amount of sugar or milk will disguise the taste.
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you are wonderful
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