How do you guys like your coffee?

The main thing for me is a french press. I like how it preserves the oils from the coffee beans that would otherwise get removed by a paper-based filter. I try to ensure the coffee grounds are coarse so they will not pass through the metal filter. The coffee I'll have it black if it accompanies a meal, otherwise with some plain cream to serve as a vehicle for a fat-soluble vitamin D3 supplement. The french press is great for making cold-brew coffee too - just leave it overnight and filter in the morning.

Black. I make it with an aeropress and I grind the beans for each cup. Just recently started experimenting with specialty coffee but so far the lighter roasts with more citrus/fruit in the description seem to be the ones I like the best.

I'll drink two cups of black coffee per day. V60 with bleached papers, ethiopian beans ground medium-fine with my Baratza grinder. I do 20g coffee to 300g water.

S-Class :: proper espresso setup, fresh beans, proper extraction Top tier :: quality fresh beans, Aeropress --- Nespresso vertuo espresso Solid tier :: pour over without paper filter Good swill tier :: mom's drip coffee

Peasant :: there was this machine at my first job that combined black sludge with hot water and put it in a cup. That stuff was incredibly bad. Next level really

I pretty much only drink it black, unless I get an espresso/latte. My favorite way of brewing is a french press, but I also enjoy a smooth Chemex. Fresh ground, typically something from a subscription coffee service so I can try something new every couple weeks.

Kind of off-topic -- but maybe it'll help somebody -- I recently quit caffeine (i.e. coffee), so my new favorite thing to brew is Rasa [0] in a french press for 30 mins with a towel over it. I may have a cup or 2 of decaf coffee once a week, but after 15 years, I quit due to coffee all of a sudden causing me anxiety and heart palpitations. (Am I getting old?) I don't like tea, but Rasa is dark enough to become a great replacement for my daily black coffee routine. It was one of the hardest (and most painful) things I've done in recent memory, but I feel so much better after quitting.

[0]: https://wearerasa.com

I used to be an instant-coffee person. I bought myself an aeropress and a Severin KM3873 grinder as a Christmas gift three years ago – with the idea that I'd sell it away if I found myself not using it – and discovered that:

- I'm using it daily;

- I actually like black coffee (I used to put milk in it but do so rarely these days, and when I do I make myself a proper aerolatte macchiato);

- supermarket coffee is gross;

- beans matter (origin, arabica/robusta ratio, how they're roasted etc).

For the beans, I'm using a Colombian/Brasilian/Peruvian arabica x Indian robusta blend, heavily roasted, with no acidic hints. Most often I make aeropresso and extend it with a lot of hot water, yielding a mild americano.

Sometimes I experiment. Just yesterday I had a stab at a Canarian-style barraquito. Came out good!

This thread is painful. I love coffee like a Finnish developer only knows, but I had to give up drinking it due my Meniere's disease. Sometimes I relapse and have a half a cup only to realize later that it was a mistake.

But I used to have my coffee black.

Take a handful of decaffinated organic beans and hand-grind them twice, boil water and pour through a filter directly into mug. Add honey and coconut milk, drink while hot.

A kind of ritual. Living my life with time there's no need to save any with machines here. Doing it with care and by hand prepares me to handle my work much the same way.

At most once a day, on average once a week or so. Always a special occasion. Never make it a habit, never become dependent on it. Caffeine works too well for me; decaffinated coffee works about as strong for me as regular coffee works for everybody else, it seems. Prefer cream but lactose intolerant.

I usually drink Cappuccino, even if the milk is not very good for me. 3-5 cups per day.

I use DeLonghi espresso machine[1], worth every penny and very little effort to make great coffee.

I get beans from local brand Etno[2]. They are always very freshly roasted, and they are surprisingly good.

[1] https://www.delonghi.com/en/products/coffee/magnifica-family [2] https://sklep.etnocafe.pl/

Drip coffee with foamed milk using a cheap handheld milk frother.

I drink one in the morning and one after lunch and that's it.

I buy ground coffee (too much work to grind it myself) and not the most expensive ones. I tried almost 10 different very expensive coffee bought on boutique coffe shops and they all tasted horribly. One didn't even smell (or tasted) like coffee, but some fruity aroma. I learned that, for me, the sweet spot are the higher-end ones that are sold on regular supermarkets.

The fanciest that I go is using Hario filters, but mostly because I make coffee just for myself and they have those one cup filters.

First choices - flat white (espresso + finely frothed milk) from an espresso machine. Second choice - with milk from a mokka pot. Third choice - with milk from a french press or filter machine.

Plain instant coffe. Don't care about much else, I don't like decaf or light roast and I have no problem against coffee prepared on the spot. Make it russian on off days :)

Light roasted beans from Ethiopia, ground to medium coarseness, and extracted via a Chemex. Served black, without sugar, cream or milk.

When I'm not at home and can't get access to a good Ethiopian light roast, I opt for the lightest brew I can get on tap, served with oat milk. Taken hot or cold depending on how I'm feeling that day.

I bought an aeropress recently and have been carrying it around when I travel. It's certainly come in handy and lets me brew for friends when I visit.

Love my Aeropress. So quick, fast to clean, nice buttery coffee at just the right temperature.

I always loved this quote from an old game (Phoenix Wright):

"Blacker than a moonless night, hotter and more bitter than Hell itself...that is coffee."

I prefer Turkish style and French Press. Not a big fan of the super-filtered coffees like pour overs...they seem too clinical.

Three espresso shots without sugar or milk. I like to get the full flavor of the coffee. I also enjoy the 100 milligram caffeine Starbucks Doubleshot from grocery stores as it's cold and convenient.

2 cups coffe from early to around 0900 tea after that.

coffe bossts me a bit out of sleep and tea keep me concentrated and awake. I find coffe after 0900 a distraction enhancer ( my mind tend to get distracted)

My favorite coffee is the one I make when going out hunting in the winter. Black, bit of chicory, and some Single malt for good measure... a flask full will do

I like using an espresso machine. I started learning latte art in 2020 so I try to make lattes as often as I can.

I have a machine - put grounds in the handle, twist it on, press the button. I use Winan's brand coffees.

With sugar and cream. Drink 6 cups from 5 to noon, made in a coffee pot, somedays I'll do tea.

I don’t drink coffee, too sensitive to caffeine. As a benefit my teeth are super white.

Brew over (Chemex, V60, classical Melitta) in the morning, Cappuccino afterwards.

Long black/americano. Hot in winter. Ice cold in summer.

Black. Nothing else.

+1 for karnataka style filter coffee

Long Black. Cold Brew in summer.

— Melbourne Australia

I like my coffee like I like my women...

Crisp.