Rule #23

[Guest Halfpint]

Rule #23: Never mess with a Marine's coffee if you want to live . . .

Any other dedicated coffee drinkers here? I don't mean like, "I wake up and have a cup while I watch the news." I mean like, "If I don't have my coffee RIGHT NOW, the world as we know it shall cease to exist--because I will make it so."

Just wondering if anybody else has a favorite brew, and what that might be. Personally, I'm a fan of dark roasts, but lately I've taken to drinking something the boss brought in at work, some kind of "Mocha Nut Fudge" stuff . . . In defense of my Man Card, I drink pretty much all coffee black, no sugar -- after all, the only things good coffee should ever need are Bailey's and more coffee.

[Guest Glock23ForMe]

Coffee....

Diet Pepsi Max...

[Guest Halfpint]

[Guest mustangdave]

Halfpint... Man card coffee requirement #2...the inside of your coffee MUG...not cup... should have the beginnings of a good coffee "stain"...especially if you're one of Uncle Sam's Misguided Children. If you want to try some really good coffee...you need to check out some Peet's coffee...it blows Starbuck's away like a BARRETT 50 does a Taliban...or if you can afford it on your meager military pay...some KONA Coffee

[VERO1]

Couple liters of Diet Coke and good to go! Never have been able to do hot drinks.

[Chris]

Coffee is Life.

My employees have been well trained over the years. They know not to try talking to the boss unless I've got a cup of coffee in my hand.

I'm a big fan of dark italian roasts. I've been using the coffee roasted by Portland Brew - a local roaster here in Nashville.

Prepared in a french press to exacting standards... it creates a brew that is at once smooth and eye popping strong.

Wonderful stuff. Think I'll go fix myself another pot.

[Guest 731david]

Coffee....

Diet Pepsi Max...

A++++

[enfield]

8 O'clock Colombian, ground 10 seconds before brewing.

[LagerHead]

Rule #23: Never mess with a Marine's coffee if you want to live . . .

Any other dedicated coffee drinkers here? I don't mean like, "I wake up and have a cup while I watch the news." I mean like, "If I don't have my coffee RIGHT NOW, the world as we know it shall cease to exist--because I will make it so."

Just wondering if anybody else has a favorite brew, and what that might be. Personally, I'm a fan of dark roasts, but lately I've taken to drinking something the boss brought in at work, some kind of "Mocha Nut Fudge" stuff . . . In defense of my Man Card, I drink pretty much all coffee black, no sugar -- after all, the only things good coffee should ever need are Bailey's and more coffee.

I'm sorry, but if "fudge" is anywhere in your coffee name, you can drink strained through a used oil filter and you still forfeit your man card.

Halfpint... Man card coffee requirement #2...the inside of your coffee MUG...not cup... should have the beginnings of a good coffee "stain"...especially if you're one of Uncle Sam's Misguided Children. If you want to try some really good coffee...you need to check out some Peet's coffee...it blows Starbuck's away like a BARRETT 50 does a Taliban...or if you can afford it on your meager military pay...some KONA Coffee

Kona is good and some of the smoothest I've tried, but to me it lacks flavor. For my money it doesn't get any better than Ethiopian. It's where coffee originated and they do coffee like the French and Italians do wine. It is no joke to them. After that, some Brazilian or Sumatran are also pretty good staples.

A++++

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[Daniel]

Pepsi Max is to sweet.

Coke Zero or if they don't have coke products whereever I happen to be I will get Diet pepsi.

I only drink coffee on guard duty or if its mixed in with ice.

[buck1032]

Kona is the way to go. I didnt drink coffee till I got stationed in Hawaii in the early 90's. It has been all down hill since then. LOL The wife knows not to speak to me before the mug is in my hand. LOL

[mikegideon]

Every morning: 8 o'clock Red. Burr grinder. Thermal drip machine. Black

Afternoon (not daily): Shots. Either 8 o'clock red, or various darker roasts in a pump espresso machine.

[DWARREN123]

Field coffee made from the instant crap in 'C-Rats" or made in a huge pot by non-coffee drinking thugs. Started on it long, long ago.

Anything else is better.

[Guest db99wj]

Community Coffee is good.

We have some type of dark roast Folders crap at the office, it's free, but meh.

[R1100R]

Pepsi Max is to sweet.

Coke Zero or if they don't have coke products whereever I happen to be I will get Diet pepsi.

I only drink coffee on guard duty or if its mixed in with ice.

What the hell are you guarding, Tosten?

Fire up then expresso machine with some Lavazza Italian Coffee.

[Daniel]

What the hell are you guarding, Tosten?

Fire up then expresso machine with some Lavazza Italian Coffee.

Exactly. I haven't drank hot coffee in 6 years lol.

[Guest Jamie]

It's real simple: I get a cup of coffee and a cig before anything else happens, when I get up in the morning.

There is no other alternative. It's not negotiable, and there is no "what if".

End of discussion.

Oh, and I don't have a favorite, 'cept it has to be plain ol' coffee. Nothing with any fru-fru flavorings, and certainly no "designer" or specialty coffee.

Edited October 7, 2010 by Jamie

[JAB]

I don't drink coffee very often. It isn't that I don't like it it is that I like it too much. If I have a cup, I'll usually end up drinking a whole, damn pot. Combine that with the fact that coffee and my stomach don't always get along and that road can lead to pain.

That said, I am man enough to admit that when I drink it I like my coffee with plenty of cream or milk and sugar. It doesn't seem to anger my stomach quite so much that way. Plain coffee is okay but I prefer the hazlenut flavored stuff - with 8 0'Clock being right up there with the more expensive brands for flavor, IMO. I usually make coffee really strong so that the flavor will stand up to the aforementioned cream/milk and sugar. On the rare occasion that I give in and have coffee, my favorite ways to brew it are 1) in an old, electric perk style perculator or 2)in an even older style, non-self heating coffee pot sitting over a campfire on on a stove eye.

Usually, though, if I want a warm beverage I tend more toward Earl Grey tea. Like coffee, I like it brewed extra strong with just a bit of cream and sugar (not as much as I use for coffee.)

[Kegger]

Mug of Leipers Fork Coffee (local roast) followed by another, with a cig first thing.

Then a red bull or monster on the way to work.

If I don't have all of them, my day goes to *****.

[xRUSTYx]

i am a coffee fan, but don't drink it often. we have one of those single cup keurig coffee makers at home. i tend to go for an early morning dr. pepper. but who am i kidding? i drink dr. pepper from sun up, till sun down .... a 12 pack of DP has nothing on me haha

[Il Duce]

Am I the only one here who doesn't like coffee?

[Guest jackdm3]

It ceases to be coffee when I'm done with it, so I don't really bother. More importantly, I don't like the staining it brings.

[Guest db99wj]

Pepsi Max is to sweet.

Coke Zero or if they don't have coke products whereever I happen to be I will get Diet pepsi.

I only drink coffee on guard duty or if its mixed in with ice.

Coke Zero FTW.

Oh, not into flavored coffees but I do put Splenda and a touch of creamer in mine.

[Guest GT_Rat]

When I'm getting serious about it I go to Terroir Select Coffees otherwise it's whatever Starbucks blend my wife buys. Black BTW.

[Guest KimberChick]

I can't do StarBURNT's coffee much, it takes too much cream and sugar to make it palatable. I like dark roasted stuff, but there's a difference between dark and left in the roaster too long.

Ugly Mug is good stuff, but it's a local brand so I can't find it everywhere.

The one thing that starts my day off completely wrong is when I get to work and I get something that's gotta go out like, yesterday, before I've made a 20oz. cup of the office gruel. I'm pretty heinous until I get all geezed up on caffeine, lol.