I drink at east 32 ounces per day, more likely 64 ounces and often up to 96.

Coffee is extremely high in antioxidants; antioxidants fight cancer.

At home I make Nabob; my mug takes half of an 8 cup pot and I take two and two. Can't stand Starbucks but I do drink Timmy's quite often.

 

I usually fix a pot of coffee a day. I pour a cup and then the rest goes in the thermos. Since I work third it is usually there that I drink it. Mostly Folgers classic or sometimes Maxwell House.

 

I usually only drink about a cup a day (although it's a pretty good sized mug) while I sit down to the computer and do my FTE stuff first thing in the morning, but sometimes on cold winter mornings I'll grab another cup while at work. We don't have a Starbucks around here, but I had my first about a year ago in the Bay Area while visiting friends...overpriced and over rated, but I liked it ok. I like cappucino and other foo-foo kinds of coffe drinks, I like French Vanilla and chocolate in my coffee. I like the good grinds from small roasters, can't stand Folgers or some of the other mainstream brands though.

Started drinking coffee when I was in my late 20s and worked on a crab fishing boat for a season, kind of needed the caffeine on those cold winter early mornings, been drinking the stuff ever since so it's been about 20 years now. Does help for a headache as well, but caffeine addicts can get headaches when they go off the stuff.

 

i make a pot of espresso on the stove in the morning. i use whatever coffee's on sale and keep the can in the freezer. morning break i'll have a coffee from whatever but it's not as good as my homemade. i like a coffee after dinner too if i'm at the restaurant too but that's about it and i can go without it. my beer is more important to me. i come home i want at least two before i even sit down.

 

Not to slam store-bought coffees (mostly what I drink), but in defense of Starbucks coffee......Assertive---yes; Burnt taste---maybe.......What you are getting, though, is the maximum taste of the coffee bean, which makes a great coffee. The problem is, most are raised on the "less assertive" taste of mass-produced supermarket coffee.....Starbucks coffee is great coffee, but just too strong for (probably) most people's palate.........Dunkin' Donuts coffee is just about as good.....

Just my .02 (ah, what the heck, .03) worth.....

Steve

 

A cup of Folgers in the morning before I leave for work, then nurse a travel mug throughout the morning. Usually some left over in the afternoon, which I often drink cold.
I like my coffe like I like my wimmen:













Bitter!

 

large iced coffee every morning from Dunkin Donuts. Sometimes one in the afternoon.

 

Started on coffee 37 years ago in college to stay up to study for exams (instant mixed with hot water). Evolved through the years, always had 2 cups every morning before I left for work. Always took a thermos full to work and then would pour out 2-3 ounce shots and swig it down. Retired now, and still go through almost 2 12-cup pots a day (never add new grounds, just run more water through the system). To me, coffee is coffee, so I buy whatever is on sale. I buy a cheap Kahlua-type product and add a couple of drops to each cup--seems to cut the bitterness. When we travel, I fill up the thermos at home so I don't have to cough up big bucks for coffee at the gas station. Not only is it a warming great drink, but if purchased right can be very cheap. Panic occurs when the old coffee machine breaks down--happened 2 months ago and I drank instant for 4 days (ugh) until I dragged my *** to Wally-World to get a new machine. Very interesting to read over the years how it's bad for you, it's good for you, it's bad for you, it's good for you--basically just don't listen to that crap anymore.

 

I'm glad I saw this thread again. I'm out of Folgers & the wife is at Kroger. One phone call & alls good again. FTE Rocks!

 

Whew! Lotsa FTE coffee drinkers!!

Thanks for all of the responses.

I've never gotten the shakes or gotten 'hyped' on it. That's one thing I can say coffee doesn't do for me...

I just enjoy the flavor and warmness of it.

Nightrain

 

Yeah, but you said you drink 5-8 pots a day! With that kind of intake, you should just take it intravenously! That's a lot of coffee!

 

Eight O'Clock bean here. 20 oz. of fresh-ground, strong and black every day. I brew it directly into the mug so the mug is heated and the coffee stays hot longer. Occasionally, I'll hit a local coffee joint for a pick-me-up in the afternoon, but mostly I stick to just the one (large) mug each morning.

5-8 pots per day doesn't sound healthy. Virtually any comestible is harmful in excess, even water.

Jason

 

Gotta die from something.

If I could take it intravenously, I would. lol.

It don't take long to go through some coffee when I drink it the whole time I'm at home, except for when I'm asleep, and I take a big 'ol thermos to work with me.

Nightarin

 

STEVE!!! WE AGREE!

Been a confirmed coffee drinker for about 25 years now. Started out with that dishwater that passes for coffee in most places, just to stay awake on the road. I'll hold back on dissing the labels, but from my trucking and sailing travels I can tell you the average American doesn't know "beans" about good coffee.

Starbucks when done according to specs is pretty good, it shouldn't taste burnt, just "assertive" as Steve put it. If it's burnt, hand it back and tell 'em to make a fresh pot. Anything that's been sitting more than 25 minutes on a hot plate is gonna be turning. Having said that, I'll drink just about anything if it means staying on my side of the road, or awake on watch. Even Folgers Crystals is welcome in the middle of the Pacific on a cold night. Sort of.

Regardless of what brand, roast (dark, medium, or light), and strength (amount of grounds) you prefer, you should make sure it's 100% Arabica beans. If it ain't, it's Robusta beans, and they are the ones that give the "week old musty sweat sock" flavor. Robustas are a lot cheaper, and tend to be used in the basic American canned coffees. Blech!

Of course, out here on the Left Coast we take coffee REALLY seriously. I buy only "Fair Trade organic shade grown" coffee. Before you spit your cup out onto the screen, think of it this way. It's like spending a little more buying your corn and meat from a small family farmer in Iowa who respects his land and tends it with a long term view, and pays him a wage that'll give him a retirement and send his kids to college, or keep them farming too.

And he doesn't get bought out or run out by mindless mega-corporations.

So:
Organic shade grown: No rainforest was destroyed (slash and burn) to grow it.

Fair trade: The middle men are cut out and the farmer is paid a living wage commensurate with his locale, and he can grow Arabica instead of Robusta Cr@p.

And he doesn't get bought out or run out by mindless mega-corporations.

 

Nicely explained, e1p1.........