What's your morning eye opener of choice?

[Roadrunner]

How can you people drink so much coffee?

I drink about 10-20 cups of coffee a year, sometimes less than that.

Don't mind a cup every now and then but every day...*blech*

I hope you all use breath mints after 'cos coffee breath is nasty!

It's definitely not a taste for everyone. In my experience coffee is a lot like beer; if it's good, then it's very good, but if it's bad, it's frickin' awful. Similarly, most people either really like it or really hate it; there isn't much of a middle ground.

 

[Steve Hayden]

shgeo: if the local roasters ever got anything good in stock I'd buy from them once a week.

Waiting till after I've got an education before I start roasting my own beans. no need to start an addiction that will have to go on hold when I can't afford it. I already can't stand the cheap sh|t everyone here drinks(folgers, maxwell, hills bros)...

You can roast beans in the oven at 300°F in a cake pan.

http://www.coffeebeancorral.com/

These guys sell only green coffee beans and at very reasonable prices. I buy mostly African and Indonesian beans and they all run about $5.00US/lb, with good volume discounts.

 

[J. MacDonald]

I never got the coffee thing as I generally hate hot beverages. For a long time I started teh day with a Coke to get a little caffine, but since going low carb a couple years ago, I quit the soda pop thing. I generally will start the day with a can of plain seltzer water. Cool and refreshing with enough carbination to cut the film inmy mouth from sleeping. About every six months I'll take a single sip of a Coke my wife is having only to remind myself just how nasty and syrupy that stuff is. Yeech!

Once in a great while if it's the weekend and I need some extra motivation I'll drink one of those low carb Monster energy drinks (like right now). Yowza! After years of almost no caffine (except the occasional plain ice tea) the Monster drink makes me really zing! I have to be careful though as I discovered the hard way that if I drink one of those things much after 2:00PM, I won't sleep well that night.

John

 

[Roadrunner]

shgeo, thanks for the link! The rep piont with the really short message on it is from me BTW. :footinmou

 

[yuzuha]

Lunch.
(what can I say, I always was a night person)
as for tea and coffee, I like hot green tea gyokuro and matcha (powdered gyokuro for tea ceremony), and I like Royal Kona and Sumatra coffee (grind my own beans). For general use though, I just drip some mass market coffee (I use it as flavored water so I make it really weak, or you'd have to peel me off the ceiling, and drink it luke-warm)

 

[Matches]

I love coffee but I know I drink too much. When I get up it's a nice cup of coffee and my pipe full of Prince Albert.
Scott

Make that several cups of coffee and several pipes with vanilla cavendish.

 

[severtecher]

Coffee, coffee, coffee...yeah,like I'm the only guy in the ENTIRE forum that hits the ol' crack pipe for a wake up call.

 

[bandaidman]

coffee

usually a single origin coffee roasted by my local coffee shop. african beans (kenyan aa, tanzanian peaberry, ethiopian) are my favorite, followed by jamaican blue mountain (the real stuff).

sometimes i will get a "froo-froo coffee"...which means a white mocha with skim milk and a touch of whipping cream

 

[akivory]

Fresh localy roasted Ethiopia Yirgacheffe

Aroma: 8
Acidity: 7
Body: 6
Flavor: 8
Aftertaste: 8
Roast: Very Dark

Origin: Africa

Origin Detail: Yirgacheffe growing region, southern Ethiopia.

Notes: Many outstanding Ethiopias are currently coming into the country. Perhaps that accounts for the five single-origin Ethiopia coffees in the cupping. They're all fine, but this one is the finest.

Blind assessment: A light, bright breath of acidity shimmers inside an amazing bouquet of sweet jasmine and darker, woodier fragrances. The cup soars in a delicious, reeling dizziness of flowers, then immediately relaxes into spicy shadows. Somehow, all of the range and complexity remains precariously, elegantly in balance.

Who should drink it: This splendid, versatile coffee should do as well for French press romance as it does for three cups on a bright, workday morning. Or try it on the porch Saturday afternoon, iced with a little half-and-half.

 

[jpdchef]

one bourbon,one scotch, and one beer! not really,but it needed to be said. Great song.

 

[Steve Hayden]

Fresh localy roasted Ethiopia Yirgacheffe

If you can get it, try some Harar, so called 'horse coffee' from the highlands of Ethiopia. It is richer and tastier than the Yrgacheffe.

This is wild coffee from the area where coffee originated and is close to what was originally taken to Yemen where they started cultivating coffee (mocha).

 

[donovan]

Mocha Harrar is good, but I prefer the Yrgacheffe. My favorite coffee, however is Celebes Kalossi. Most days, unless I really need a boost, I drink green or oolong tea.

Jack

 

[wolfmann601]

Sometimes I drink coffee but not that often. I just don't like the bad taste it leaves in my mouth. I also notice that coffee drinkers usually have really bad breath. No thanks

Huh??? That's what a toothbrush and mouthwash is for

I notice that most heavy Mountain Dew drinkers have rotten teeth

 

[silenthunterstudios]

Can't have caffeine cause my heart'll explode, so it's decaf tea for me, straight up!

Started drinking coffee when I was 12 or 13, put a ton of flavored creamer in it, got an ulcer and reflux. I can't drink decaf coffee because it aggravates my reflux. I also used to drink Surge, Mountain Dew and Sprite by the gallon, and would bottom out after a very bad sugar/caffeine high. After I was diagnosed with type ii diabetes, I cut out all sugar, and drank diet Mountain Dew etc, lots of stuff with caffeine, and switched to green tea, and would drink gallons of cold green tea every day, and would have a case of diet Snapple at my desk at work for a treat. Last Memorial Day weekend, I went out on my uncles boat, and downed an entire case of diet Snapple, two gallons of home made green tea and about a pot of hot green tea, and that Tuesday, I woke up with my heart pounding out of my chest! I was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, and almost died that day. I am trying very hard to kick the diet soda habit, only diet Sierra Mist or diet Sprite for me, but the phenylalanine in that soda is worse than the sugar! I don't need a cup of hot tea to get up in the morning, but I like to have one cup in the morning, usually decaf green or black pekoe in the morning. I make decaf iced tea for myself, and take about a gallon of it to work in the morning, and finish it during the day.

 

[T. Erdelyi]

Explain somethin' to me, my Sister-in-law can't have caffeine either so she drinks decaf coffee, yet she still insists that she can't wake up without it, she reminds me of my wife(a coffee junky who, without caffeine can't function).

How is it possible to have decaf coffee wake you up, is it just the habit and addiction to the ritual that wakes her up or is it really the decaf?

 

[silenthunterstudios]

40 minutes of Yoga followed by a bodysurf when I'm being good.

Coffee and morning TV when I'm being bad....

Don't you guys have a lot of sharks down there?

 

[Don Luis]

I drink two cups of coffee a day, one in the morning, one in the afternoon, it does not seem like much but if I have no coffee I'll get a headache in the evening, I'm addicted.

Luis

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"I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast".
W.C. Fields

 

[Danbo]

Gotta have my fresh ground and brewed coffee first thing in the morning. I fill up a Nissan thermos bottle and drink it all morning. Don't think I'd be much fun to be around without it.

 

[Roadrunner]

How is it possible to have decaf coffee wake you up, is it just the habit and addiction to the ritual that wakes her up or is it really the decaf?

Decaf coffee still has a little bit of caffeine in it, but I think you're right and it's mostly psychological. I know I always feel better just taking that first sip in the morning, and there's no way the caffeine is kicking in after two seconds.

 

[Rugger]

I used to run on pretty heavy fuel most of the time a few years ago- anywhere from 2-10 big (20 oz) cups/day. For some that's nothing- for me, it was getting to be too much. Now it's mainly tea for me in the mornings anymore- I had a GF once who pretty much only drank tea & she got me hooked on the good stuff. I like a quality Earl Grey from time to time- but a good FGTOP Darjeeling is hard to beat... and not the teabag/floor-sweepings crap either. I still have my Braun & French Press pots & some damned good coffee in the fridge & freezer & still appreciate a good cup of coffee, but I can't do the jacked-up thing anymore.