COFFEE ..please help me decide

[AsahinaKimi]

Poll question: COFFEE ..please help me decide

I am leaning towards Hazelnut but I would like your opinion. Best Coffee to have at home..or here in the lounge?

[Haole Girl]

1. Kona

Holualoa organic coffee is my favorite.

http://www.konalea.com

edit: spelling

[AsahinaKimi]

2. OOOOOOOOOooooooooooooohhh!

Yes, I totally forgot about Kona Coffee. I wonder if our Safeway even carries it? I think I looked for it once..and couldn't find any. But, now, I will have to go and find out. I will mark it down on my list, thanks!

[KamaAina]

32. +5-0

and if Safeway doesn't have it, there is a store in the Sunset that specializes in Hawai'i "imports"!

[AsahinaKimi]

67. Oh Cool...

I can google it and see if I can find it. I know there is a store across from Japantown that sells a lot of Hawaiian products, maybe they have it too. I have had Kona before, its really great tasting coffee.

[KamaAina]

72. Actually it looks like the one in Japantown is it these days

Aloha Warehouse on Buchanan. "Da Hawai'i Store" appears to be back on the island. Sun Jose Hawai'i down here is pau, too. :(

[Zomby Woof]

3. Flavored coffee is an abomination

A crime against nature.

Decaf flavored coffee is heresy against all that has ever been or ever will be.

[Richard Steele]

7. I'll second that. The people who perpetrate "flavored coffee" should die of cancer and rot in Hell.

Just sayin'.

[AsahinaKimi]

12. So are you always this friendly to everyone who posts..?

Wow.. just wow. I could have sworn I was in the lounge... How did I end up in GD?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

16. Perhaps a symptom of too much coffee

As I sit with my cup of "Guatemala-Antigua" Starbucks brand that I made in a French press. (From a Christmas gift sampler package, thanks much, way better than fruitcake)

A little strong, but good stuff.

One more cup of this stuff, and I'll be ready for GD.

:rofl:

[AsahinaKimi]

17. That sounds good too

Not sure about the fruitcake, I was never a fan of them. Scones, Cream puffs, donuts, coffee cake,
a cookie.. or even.. Cheese cake. (drools). I just gained ten pounds thinking about them.

[Richard Steele]

18. On average, when I REALLY think about the question... yes. Yes I am.

The world we live in is rude, heartless and bone-chillingly COLD.
Dress appropriately.

[AsahinaKimi]

19. so you are here to

Perpetuate the rude, heartless, bone chillingly cold attitude of the few people on DU? Or are you just being a bully to me? Cause, either way.. I think its very sad. :(

[Richard Steele]

21. No. quite teh opposite.

I'm here because DU is a group of of folks
with a RARE combination of 2 qualities:

A: they are optomistic, and genuinely have HOPE for the future.
B: They tolerate my presence.

I am -NOT- being a bully to you;
it's just a random chance that I've seen & replied to
several of your threads over the last few days.

Honestly, I don't know anything about you, but i've got a serious FEELING
that you are pretty cool. The kind of person that lots of folks
are glad to know.

It seems that I've offended you every time we've crossed paths....
How unfortunate.

"Offending you" was never my intent- you have *NEVER* posted anything here
that gave me any reason to consider you an 'enemy'.

I guess maybe you and I just weren't destined to "get along"?
If so, then I agree with what you said: that's sad.

[AsahinaKimi]

22. So.. you are saying ...

"people who perpetrate "flavored coffee" should die of cancer and rot in Hell."

was not necessarily aimed at me.. (even though I started this thread)


and that maybe I am too sensitive, I should maybe get a harder shell because

"The world we live in is rude, heartless and bone-chillingly COLD."

Just trying to clarify this.. As for getting along, I am a very open person and get along with many many people, easily. In fact, I try to be a fun person, which is why I prefer to hang out in the lounge rather then do battle in GD, like some people do.

I don't mind humor, even poking fun at myself some times. I also try to chose my words carefully, because I don't want people to be angry at me ..or hate me cause I said something stupid. On the other hand, I would hope people would treat me the same way, and I know that doesn't always happen on forums.


I also know that misunderstandings happen, especially in a medium where we have no way of checking the intent of whats being said, and have to revert to smiley faces..and other such symbols.

[Zomby Woof]

36. Don'y pay that Dick any mind

I mean, um, that Richard guy.

My comments above were meant in the spirit of cartoonish outrage, and not a personal attack - I have a rep around here for really loving coffee, and sometimes feel I should reinforce that, lol. Wishing death or cancer on someone who drinks it, however, crosses the cartoon line - and if it's a joke, it's in extremely poor taste. My exaggerated 'outrage' was directed at the coffee itself, not the people who drink it.

Anyway... carry on. :-)

[AsahinaKimi]

48. doumo arigatou

Thank you, I know people joke around here, I get that. Thats why I love the lounge, but sometimes
people will, as you say, cross the line, and then I wonder whats really going on. Thank you for your kind words.

[Richard Steele]

51. Lighten up, Francis.

I think you and I will both be much happier
if I put you on "ignore", so I'm gonna
go ahead and do that as soon as I finish this post.

You have a blessed day now, y'hear?

[smalll]

77. You haven't seen heartless yet, missy --

For one thing, I'd bet my life you're neither Japanese nor female. Stick that in your bamboo pipe and smoke it.

[Quantess]

55. Some people get violent at the idea of scented/flavored coffee.

Just the idea offends some people. I myself am aghast at scented/flavored, but I'm polite about it, at least. :)

[baldguy]

20. What about coffee flavored coffee?

Coffee is a flavor.

[Zomby Woof]

31. Dennis Leary got that one right

That's the only coffee flavor acceptable.

[REP]

59. That's far too lenientt

Torn about by rabid weasels and then burn in hell should do it.

[Sebastian Doyle]

65. In Hell, they only serve instant coffee, and its Decaf!

so no need for the cancer. They'll be suffering enough. :scared:

[redqueen]

33. Yep. (nt)

[Dappleganger]

35. Yep, add flavored syrup if you must...

me, I prefer a good basic organic dark coffee, whatever I can find on sale in whole bean.

[whistler162]

52. AMEN... Preach it!

[Rhiannon12866]

68. +1!

x(

[marzipanni]

4. Graffeo

Graffeo Coffee Roasting Co. 735 Columbus Ave San Francisco !
Dark roast...yum.

[sakabatou]

5. As a flavored coffee, I usually go towards plain vanilla or caramel

[petronius]

6. If you're going to have flavored coffee, I vote for the vanilla

But it really shouldn't be called coffee, just like 'cheez' is not really cheese...

[pokerfan]

26. Coffee in England is just toasted milk.

~ Christopher Fry

[AmyDeLune]

8. Mountain Blueberry from Panache...mmmm....

http://www.thecoffeeplanet.net/store/product/mountain-blueberry-198.cfm

[denbot]

9. Rwandan, single estate.

Unbelievable, do not use anything other then of coffee press or espresso machine for this bean.

[MrCoffee]

29. This, of course, is the correct answer.

[old mark]

10. My wife gets some stuff called "8 O' Clock", whole beans, grinds is just before she makes it -

great stuff.

mark

[TK421]

27. That is the only coffee I buy....have been drinking it since I was

in high school. The A&P ( now SuperFresh ) used to have the coffee grinders at the end of the checkout lines....A&P used to be the only place you could get it, now you can find it just about anywhere :thumbsup:

[old mark]

45. My mom used to buy it regularly. It is really good coffee. nt

[Gormy Cuss]

43. One of the classic A&P blends.

Bokar was another.

[old mark]

46. Yes!! I remember that, too, but I think that's gone now.....IT's NOT!!!

link: http://www.eightoclock.com/products/whole.asp

very interesting-never know what you find when you google.

mark

[pokerfan]

11. Coffee flavored coffee, please (nt)

[blogslut]

13. I think flavored coffees are too strong

What I like to do is mix a flavored coffee in with a nice dark roast in a one part > three part blend.

[northofdenali]

14. Only ONE will suffice.

[northofdenali]

15. delete dupe

[Captain Hilts]

23. Grow up and stop drinking that flavored stuff!

[HopeHoops]

24. Kenya AA - yum.

[kimi]

25. Anything Sumatran

Very smooth stuff, IMO. But all tastes differ, naturally.

[GoCubsGo]

28. If I'm going to have flavored coffee, I prefer chocolate/mocha

Any other flavor, meh.

[surrealAmerican]

30. The "flavored" stuff is generally inferior coffee.

If you get the good stuff, you won't need (or want) flavoring.

[redqueen]

34. Costa Rican, Sidamo (Ethiopian), Kenyan, Sumatran...

:9

[Zomby Woof]

37. Kenyan is a big favorite of mine

I don't even ask for its birth certificate when I buy it! *bad-da-boom - crash*

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

44. Kenyan - Hawaiian - same thing

I think they use the same birth certificates. Probably the same coffee beans too.

:hi:

[ornotna]

38. coffee flavor for me thank you

a light roast. much more versatile, more or less grounds and brew to your or your guests liking.

[TheMightyFavog]

39. Dallmayr Prodomo

[Lydia Leftcoast]

40. Have you seen how they make flavored coffees?

They take some chemical substance that looks as if it should be poured somewhere under the hood of your car (it even comes in a can that looks like a motor oil can) and sprinkle it on the beans.

Kimochi ga warui!

Seeing that cured me of flavored coffees for life.

No, these days I go for the real thing and the real thing only:

Peace Coffee French Roast
Peet's Garuda Blend
Caribou's Obsidian Blend

I like dark roasts with chocolaty overtones.

[Zomby Woof]

41. You just confirmed my worst fears

It IS a crime against nature!

[MrsMatt]

69. That explains the very bitter after taste

I get when I drink flavored coffee. Sometimes even the smell of flavored coffee brings that taste to my mouth.

[Gormy Cuss]

42. I don't like flavored coffee, but for you, I'd say hazelnut.

Nut flavored coffees seem to retain more coffee tones than the vanilla or fruit flavored ones --
at least that's been my experience when I'm served flavored coffees at friend's houses.

eta: if you want really good flavored coffee, brew regular beans and add a shot of Torani flavored syrup to your cup. CostPlus used to carry Torani and they probably have it at bigger Safeways, Andronico's, and Raley/Nob Hill stores.
http://www.torani.com/

[AsahinaKimi]

50. I have a friend who is a Vietnam Veteran

and I visit him up at the VA hosptial. He always sends me down to get him a "Cup o Joe" and prefers the Hazel Nut coffee. Told me when he was on ship, they used to have to drink that "NAVY SLUDGE" that came from god knows where. Said He drank that stuff for years..and wondered why it had to taste so bad. He told me, if they had added Sea Water to it, it still would not have improved it.

Says, that every day now, he has to have the Hazelnut, cause its nothing like what he was used to drinking in his days in the Service.

[hobbit709]

47. Jamaica Blue Mountain

Flavorings? Gah!

[tigereye]

49. Peets Sumartan is very, very good

[Quantess]

53. Unflavored, first and foremost.

The scented/flavored kinds are just WRONG! I won't drink it if it's scented/flavored.

French Roast.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

54. Not the flavored kind, especially not vanilla.

I'm fond of a lightish roast; Ethiopian Yrgacheffe is very nice.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

56. I recommend a big steaming mug of Kopi luwak

Cheers!

[jmowreader]

57. It's this "ground coffee" thing that's worrying me, kimi

Only drink whole bean coffee. Grinders are inexpensive and the flavor is far superior.

[AsahinaKimi]

60. Why whats wrong with ground coffee?

I keep one in the freezer and one in the fridge. Are you concerned with contamination?

[Zomby Woof]

61. It loses its oils rapidly

The flavor depletes quickly. No contamination or anything, it just gets stale quickly. Breaking the husk of the bean starts the breakdown and release of the oils, which are the heart of the flavor.

It actually preserves better in the fridge than in the freezer if you must store ground coffee. Just make sure it's in an airtight container.

[AsahinaKimi]

62. OH good you had me scared... for a moment

I had visions of Bacteria growing in my ground coffee... I keep them both in air tight containers. I can put them both in the fridge I guess.. I was told you could freeze one of them.. but maybe that isn't such a good idea.

[Zomby Woof]

64. No worries

(Pay me no mind - I jumped in on your reply to another poster with my previous post, lol)

Freezing won't harm it, it's just that refrigeration is preferred. Still, you don't really want to keep it frozen or refrigerated for more than 2-3 weeks, or it will just lose flavor. You're not in danger like storing meat or fish for a long time, in comparison.

You'll be fine. :-)

[grasswire]

63. no, not contamination

Freshly ground coffee is just infinitely superior in flavor to something you buy already ground.

And to be a real bore about coffee making -- you should always start with fresh cold tap water that has run for a minute. Never use anything but. Water that has been sitting in the pipe (or warm, god forbid) has different chemical makeup than fresh running cold water.

What kind of coffeemaker do you use?

[AsahinaKimi]

66. My friend gave me a

"Mr Coffee" Coffee maker. I really wasn't that much into coffee until recently. I am a green tea kinda person. I love pure Japanese Green powdered tea, the kind they use in the traditional Tea Ceremony, but that stuff is Mega expensive. Well, it is, after all, shipped over from Japan.

I also love Chinese teas.. like Pu Erh, and I like Oolong tea. Other kinds of Chinese Black teas. I remember once trying that instant coffee stuff. Yuck, horrible! It put me off coffee for a while, then my friend came over, and gave me the coffee maker, and a bag of French Roast and showed me how to make it. Had some of that powdered creamer, that tasted like French Vanilla.

I was quite surprised. Kinda weird, that living in this city we have a STARBUCKS and PEETS coffee place every other block, and I never really went into them except to drop off a job application.


I did most of my Tea shopping at Japantown and in Chinatown. You CAN'T even find coffee in Chinatown.

[jmowreader]

75. No. What's wrong with it was already covered.

My wife drinks coffee every day and she absolutely will not drink whole bean coffee. Says it's "too strong" for her--even though I use the same amount of grounds for a pot made either way.

You can prove to yourself the quality of whole bean coffee by a real simple experiment. This won't cost you much but it will blow your mind. Get a coffee grinder and a bag of beans--Eight o'Clock is very good and not very expensive. Grind up four or five bowls of beans, put them in a container with a lid, and set them in the cupboard for two weeks. Make a pot of coffee. It will be good. Then grind a bowl of beans, but this time dump them right into the pot and brew the coffee. You will not think it's the same beans, even though they came out of the same bag.

Oh, and if you use cream? Please, whatever you do, do NOT use the powdered stuff. It doesn't taste very good. Choose either half-and-half or heavy cream.

[nolabear]

58. Hate flavored coffee. Coffee IS a flavor. Good dark Italian or French Roast.

And yes, I am an addict. Why do you ask?

[AwakeAtLast]

71. YES to both of those suggestions!

:thumbsup:

[peacefreak]

70. How can such a sweetie start the coffee wars of 2010?

When I can afford it I love Luzianne with a healthy dose of Vietnamese cinnamon added. Sometimes I also add some cardamom. Nice way to start the morning.

[Odin2005]

73. Flavored coffee is an automatic EPIC FAIL!!!

Get some good Ethiopian coffee, dammit!

[Quantess]

74. This is my opinion of flavored coffee:

[Fridays Child]

76. Safeway brand Classic

I can't believe how much I like it.