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It won't be of much use to an international discussion, but my wife and I drink Buckmaster coffee, which is a local roaster. It makes Starbucks taste mediocre. We buy the fresh roasted beans and grind them at home, and I do mean fresh roasted. As often as not, the bins are sold out.
My recipe for Kahlua is to use medium roast beans run through an espresso machine, add sugar and vanilla for the syrup, then mix it with grain alcohol 50/50 (100 proof) or 5/4 (80 proof). Let the solids settle out of the espresso for a month, then decant. Add an ounce to a cup of coffee. That's my version of flavored coffee.
It won't be of much use to an international discussion, but my wife and I drink Buckmaster coffee, which is a local roaster. It makes Starbucks taste mediocre. We buy the fresh roasted beans and grind them at home, and I do mean fresh roasted. As often as not, the bins are sold out.
My recipe for Kahlua is to use medium roast beans run through an espresso machine, add sugar and vanilla for the syrup, then mix it with grain alcohol 50/50 (100 proof) or 5/4 (80 proof). Let the solids settle out of the espresso for a month, then decant. Add an ounce to a cup of coffee. That's my version of flavored coffee.
Sounds delish. I'm on the East coast and my roaster in is Portland, OR also. They roast and I receive within two days. Mediocre is a compliment to Starbucks in comparison.
Dont care for the Keurig as doesnt taste like fresh brewed. I buy the flavored beans and grind them. My favorite flavors are hazelnut and michigan cherry.
Sounds delish. I'm on the East coast and my roaster in is Portland, OR also. They roast and I receive within two days. Mediocre is a compliment to Starbucks in comparison.
Did you know you can roast the beans yourself in an air popcorn popper? If you really want gourmet coffee, buy the green arabica beans and grind them while they are still warm from roasting.
I thought I was the only who could smell that in choc chip cookies. The rest of my family thinks I'm either insane or too picky.
you aren't crazy or picky, but I must be ablivious to smells cause I really have no idea what you are even talking about. I think hubby and I must be the only ones in the world that likes the flavored (yes artificial) stuff. Now, I have to get off the computer for a minute, I can smell our Sat coffee perking.
Did you know you can roast the beans yourself in an air popcorn popper? If you really want gourmet coffee, buy the green arabica beans and grind them while they are still warm from roasting.
That is a seriously poor idea. Fresh roasted beans need time to de-gas for peak flavor. If you need to roast for the next morning's coffee, leave the beans out on a cookie sheet all night. Otherwise, best to wait 2 days for consumption, 4 - 6 if you're using them to make espresso.
Why not recommend *natural* flavoring, instead of artificial? You could charge a premium for adding a few -drops- of natural flavor extracts, it takes up much less space than those bottles of flavor syrups, the extracts can be displayed in a much neater, and much more interesting way than the flavor syrups can, and the company can promote the whole concept of "real coffee, real flavor."
Go open a roastery/cafe and get back to me.
"Natural" flavoring is not what the American flavored-coffee-drinking public wants. The public wants cloying and powerful flavoring to overwhelms any actual coffee flavor in flavor combinations that get increasingly more bizarre each year.
And the bottled syrups at the coffee counter have zip to do with flavoring a cup of drip coffee. They are for adulterating your oversized latte.
I'm glad to see it's not just me that hates flavored coffee. It definitely smells and tastes like chemicals to me. Every fall they bring out the pumpkin spice flavored coffee. For some reason, pumpkin flavored coffee is a thing here. I had some friends visiting from Canada one fall and they asked me "what's up with the pumpkin flavor? Ew" I saw a TV ad (yes already) that one company is introducing natural flavor this year for their pumpkin spice coffee. It might be Dunkin Donuts. Anyway, if I can't have regular coffee I just have tea.
Definitely my favorite flavor, bar none. That is, IF it is a good one. Wawa has the most amazing pumpkin spice, every fall. I love it.
you aren't crazy or picky, but I must be ablivious to smells cause I really have no idea what you are even talking about. I think hubby and I must be the only ones in the world that likes the flavored (yes artificial) stuff. Now, I have to get off the computer for a minute, I can smell our Sat coffee perking.
Nope! I love it, my son loves it, my nephews love it...and when I make it at work I am SURROUNDED by "thank you!!"s all morning.
Loooove flavor coffee! !!! Just had pumpkin at our local Dunkin Donuts.
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