If so.. What kind? more specifically.. anyone into espresso drinks? Regular coffee is kinda boring to me.. If I did drink it, it would have to be flavored.. so far my favorite flavored coffee is Jamaican Me Crazy.. it's a tasty blend with a mix of kahlua, caramel, vanilla and rum flavors..

I used to work at a bookstore/cafe.. (The HardBack Cafe inside Hastings) so I'm pretty well versed in making just bout all the mixed drinks.. compared to Starbucks, the quality was much better in my opinion, with more select syrups and sauces for flavored drinks.. I'm a fiend for Mochas and Caramel Macchiatos.. and I still have just about every recipe memorized..

In all honesty, I don't drink coffee much anymore.. but I recently acquired a free cheapo $80 semi-auto Espresso maker.. I spent the hour tinkering with it, attempting to restore/clean it and I picked up some ground Espresso earlier tonight.. well it's obviously not a commercial quality machine, but it still managed to pump out a decent shot.. I didn't have any primo chocolate sauce.. so I settled for Hersheys.. Long story short.. I made myself some suprisingly tasty Mocha lattes..

I'm gonna play around with it a little more.. but it looks like I need a finer grind and a better tamper, and it should produce a bit better shots.. I was pretty bad azz a couple years ago.. but then I had a $5000 machine backing me up.. lol

anywho.. I found a cool website that aparently sells just about every ingredient I used inside my old coffee shop.. Ghiradelli sauces, Monin Syrups, Maui Smoothie mixes.. mmm.. looks like I have some x-mas shopping to do..
http://www.coffeeam.com/

 

Did you drink too much coffee before writing this?

I drink Tim Horton's, Extra Large Double Double.

 

X2; I hit Timmies at least once every day, but I don't drink double double anymore, or at least I haven't in several years now.

2 milk 1 sugar

 

I drink three cups of Maxwell House every day.
5am, 6am, I nurse the third in a thermos between 7-9 am.

 

Never heard of em, I take it they're local to the Great White North?

There's a one-off coffee shop near where I live, we buy whole beans from them and occasionally get drinks from them as well. I'll usually get a triple shot "white lightning" which is pretty much just a white chocolate mocha. I also like the triple "heath crunch" which has crumbled heath bars mixed into it.

At home we just make regular coffee, usually with one of the flavored coffeemate creamers.

- NCSU

 

I use the hazelnut.

 

We've got gingerbread creamer for the holidays.

- NCSU

 

They used to be, but New York and Michigan have had a few for years now.

 

Peet's everyday after work for Americano or Mocha. At home, Peet's whole beans burr ground, then to a Bunn CW15 thermal carafe, or press pot.

 

I only drink espresso and can't stand weak coffee. I have an old Gaggia machine which still works fine.

Hey, where's Kobi? He's the coffee man on here

 

An interesting fact about Timmies...

It's not all over the states yet, but Tim Horton's is a MAJOR supporter of our troops in Afghanistan, but not just Canadian... Ron Joyce, the full owner of Tim Horton's, not only had a shop shipped to Kandahar Airfield, but he showed up last Christmas while I was there, and announced that nobody on the camp would pay for any product until December 27th. Christmas day, Boxing day, 15000 members, all on the house. You crazy 'mericans don't like coffee as much as we do, but you sure as hell love your donuts. The boys were walking out with boxes upon boxes of'em...

Whether it was for publicity, business, or good will, I can guarantee that alot of Tim Horton's shops will be opening up in the states, as well as Europe in the next few years...

 

Ron Joyce sold Timmies a long time ago

I saw a show about his trip to Afhanistan not long ago BTW, and he honestly has a dep respect for all the boys and girls serving over there, so I don't believe it was a publicity stunt. He doesn't need it. I see him regularly because he does business at an investment firm in the same building where my head office is. You should see the two cars he drives
Have you ever seen his boat? I prefer to call it a ship.

 

It's funny, soon as you mention coffee, Canadians just wake the f-up!!! Tim Hortons is the quintessential Canadian icon, hockey the same and snow. Funny how all 3 blend nice ala (outdoor pro hockey in a snow storm). Tim Hortons is growing fast in the states, Ohio for one has had them for a while, I'm thinking Indiana and Illinois too. It's good regular coffee, not like that gay Starbucks sh+t, sorry, it's poo!!!

 

I have an X large double double in my hands from Tim Hortons!!


THE BEST COFFEE IN THE WORLD!!

 

I drink a bean from my local Grocery Store. the HEB Taste of Texas Austin blend. Dont know how it is made, just know it is the best coffee I have ever had.

other than that, I prefer Folgers. The original recipe. That Jamacian Blue Mountain is good. Have had that a few times at a friends house.

If I have to goto a coffee shop like starbucks I will get a mocha. I hate how the coffee tastes at those stores. I think it tastes burnt and will not drink it.