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@ cdennyb,,, would you like some hotcakes with your syrup ? 
I've been tempted to buy some "Kopi Luwak" coffee, like Jack Nicholson drank in the "Bucket List", but I can't justify $215.00 for 4 cups of coffee made from animal dung.
World's most expensive coffee......
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Yea grind your own is the way to go, I agree. The best thing
however is a great cup of tea made from looseleaf tea leaves.
I love almost all tea if it is not in a bag.
Estate teas are good (also used for tea bags, Its the bag that is the worst part)
darjeeling is really soothing
oolong is a nice relaxing tea
Terry's English Breakfast if one of my top 5
Chineese Pu-erh is nice to get you to wake up (lots of caffene)
and all kinds of herbal teas for many reasons.
But I don't like Rooibos
I can drink chai usually with milk.
YES I love tea real tea.
Don't get me wrong I do like coffee.
I just don't drink as
much of it now after my bypass.
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Yay, Springer! Another tea aficionado! Not to continue hijacking this thread, but it's about time tea drinkers banded together and spoke up!
Here's why I say it's a coffee-drinkers' world:
1. In a restaurant, coffee drinkers are always asked if they'd like a refill (no extra charge). Tea drinkers are asked if they'd like more hot water...to put over the old, soggy, cold, depleted tea bag. Ewww. If we do ask for a new tea bag, we're usually charged for it.
2. At a function like a wedding or banquet, the servers come around with coffee. If we ask for hot tea, we're lucky if we ever see it.
3. The hot water containers at functions, meetings, etc. have often been previously used for coffee and the coffee smell and taste never goes away. So, we end up with a cup of tea that has overtones of stale coffee.
There, rant over. Whew! I've been wanting to get that off my (tea) chest for a long time.
Now I'm sure everyone thinks I'm KindaCrazy, not KindaScratchy. 
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Hear Hear!!!! Coffee is OK, But tea is great esp. loose leaf tea.
I get my tea from a local tea shop in Winston-Salem NC (Angelina's Teas).
This tea shop has over 500 diff. teas, mostly loose leaf.
He is online too.
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I tried drinking my coffee black but so far I was no able! I don't really add sugar in my coffee but milk is a must! I would die if I did not had my café au lait in the morning, and before someone ask, yes I drink it in a coffee bowl hehe. Café au lait is one of my little tricks for daily intake of calcium!
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So does anyone here ever drink yerba-mate? I guess it would be an herbal tea rather than a proper tea, since it is a different plant.
Plenty of caffeine in it, and it is a bit lower in tannins than coffee or regular tea.
"This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in 5 or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development." ~ Itzhak Perlman
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I heard they love tea in England.
No matter where you go, there you are!
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Daniel what is yer... made from/of. I have never heard of it.
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It is a type of holly plant that they make a sort of tea beverage from down in South America. Quite a bit of caffeine to it.
"This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in 5 or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development." ~ Itzhak Perlman
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Ahh coffee, the necture of the Gods, manna from heaven, java from...uh, the place that jave comes from? Whatever the case, coffee is both my dearest and oldest friend and also my creepy uncle that no one wants around during the holidays. You know the guy, we all have one. Weird, creepy talks waaay to much about weird stuff that has nothing to do with anything you would normaly talk about. Yea, that uncle.
Anyways...off subject again. I love, love, LOVE coffee...during winter and in the early morning on the way to work. During winter I drink coffee like a fish drinks water. Well, except fish drink water with their own urine in it...not me, my water/coffee is urine free. Ok, so maybe not exactly like a fish...you know, come to think of it fish are gross. -SLAP- Oops, sorry back on subject now...I love my coffee. All winter it is a staple in my diet, spring and fall it is in my hands in the morning. Summertime? In Summer, coffee and I are like an old married couple, we still love each other, but we need some time apart. Nothing personal, but it'll strengthen our relationship later. Im not drinking a different coffee, just taking a break from you. I can't drink hot beverages in the summer...and when your mornings are already in the upper 70's it isn't going to get any cooler to really enjoy it.
But soon as it starts cooling off again or we have a nice cold front that settles in for a few days, you better believe my pot is perculating like there is no tomorrow. 
Ahhh, the wonderful taste of coffee. I dig it!
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That was really cool gkeese. I enjoyed reading that. Not sure I agree about fish being gross, LOL but I totally agree about the relationship with coffee. 
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Hey Clint! How about using coffee in the summer to dunk your breakfast in, i.e. donuts, ginger snaps, others.
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This was a fun topic to bring forward. I did not read every post.
I drink too much coffee, but what can I say? I like it with plenty of cream and if it is a 12oz mug, 5 Equal packets.
Fun topic, @Fiddlerman! I cannot believe this topic has gone 4 pages!
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Hey, Fiddlerman, a few years ago, the very first time you called me about being an admin, and I was cutting up a watermelon, you told me how you make a smoothie or some drink out of watermelon. I wrote it down, but lost it, could you please give it to me again? Thanks.
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I have drunk a lot of coffee over the last 45 years, but have lost contact with the market due to the gf for the last 28 years not being interested in anything but weak, sweet instant.
Generally I drink high roast, specifically this one, but its price has gone up a lot since I regularly bought a few kilos of ground each time to put in the freezer 30 years ago.
I can't at the moment justify £22 per kilo, so I've been buying whole beans cheaper from supermarkets and grinding them in an electric mill for a cafetiere (aka French press), but they taste pretty awful, especially as I had to give up sugar, and I find buying milk inconvenient, since I'm rarely at home. And they are a lighter roast, which I don't like. I must learn to re-roast them in a skillet. And grinding coffee is messy, so I may go back to ready ground in the freezer when I can get back into a routine of taking delivery when I'm in. But when I can't bear the taste any more I ameliorate it with milk when I can.
Mexican coffee can be very good, and I assume it's dirt cheap in the USA. Or maybe you're better off getting Columbian.
Something else I've noticed is that it's getting harder and harder to find supermarket coffee that is 100% Arabica.
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EVERYTHING is 'bad' for us now-a-days... even the water. 😒😖
We've been using the AeroPress for quite a few years now, for less acidity - huge difference. Used to do the inverted method, then last year I noticed they came out with a valved cap, so don't have to now - easy for stronger coffee. Still like the paper filters over the wire mesh.
Have had several burr grinders over the years. My favorite (using now) is this small expresso bean mill for a fine grind - rechargeable.
We've tried different fresh roasted beans locally (in Michigan), but my favorite for the last 6 months has been Fiddlershop & Friends Coffee 'Tchaikoffee' Dark Roast!
Coffee in the AF was really hard to stomach... period.
My folks were very serious about coffee being good enough to drink 'black' - don't know what happened to me... I add a little of my protein drink now (vanilla, chocolate, or Premier Protein's 'Pumpkin Spice' during the holidays) & a touch of a Jordan's Sugar-free Syrup.
I do LOVE many different teas, including chai - all loose-leaf.
So, two cups-worth of coffee in the morning, once in a while tea in the afternoon - not looking for a caffeine buzz.
...Kevin & I both have fond memories of the smell of Maxwell House coffee percolating on top of the stove. 😊
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Dark roasts are less acidic than light roasts.
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Had milk in my coffee this morning. It improved the flavour hugely.
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Aah. I use half and half, but I like more than most with the coffee.
I have some 8'oclock Dark Italian Espresso (Bold, Chocolately, Full-bodied - I don't taste the chocolate) fresh ground brewing right now. I never used to grind coffee. I received a bag of beans in December and bought a grinder, been grinding ever since. I find it is not as bitter, It could be that the brand and coffee bean I am grinding is a different brand than I used with ready ground, who knows. I just know that we both like this.
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I don't taste the chocolate
I know what you mean. Where I worked we had a weekly wine-tasting club, and I was the worst in the group. After years I finally said, ah, yes, I detect a flavour which ISN'T cinnamon (or plum or whatever), but which I agree could by convention be called cinnamon (or plum or whatever)
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@Gordon Shumway Exactly! My older daughter goes wine tasting. She works the office and tasting room at a well known winery where she lives. She tastes all these things that that say you can taste in wines. Me? I usually just like it, or I don't. Once in a blue moon I will say that I taste something, and it is correct.
I can't stand dry red. They are like sandpaper in the mouth and throat. Therefore, I usually cannot taste exact flavors in the wine, but the tannin in the reds, yep, not a fan.
I had a local white wine when visiting a place in Washington state (not DC). Wow, it was delicious. Cannot get it here though. It was not really sweet at all, and I still liked it. I could actually note a slightly fruit taste to it.
With coffee, either it is smooth or bitter, the other flavors they mention, poof, right over my head. I find this bean I grind is much smoother and less acidic than the Folgers that I used to get. I like Folgers, but it is a bit more bitter and acidic. I only have it when I want a decaf because it is late. Sometimes I will mix it with the fresh ground to make it less bitter and acidic.
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