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Old 02-12-2007, 09:33 PM
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I and my husband are coffee snobs. We buy only whole bean Starbucks and grind our beans for every pot. There is nothing like a good smooth coffee to get you going in the morning. I do agree that in order to judge a good coffee it must stand alone in order to taste the true flavor.
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Old 02-17-2007, 09:46 AM
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I don't drink coffee, but I do like tea, especially the orange spice herb tea.

And the chai lattes at Starbucks.
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Old 02-22-2007, 06:58 PM
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I've been drinking the Starbuck's House Blend and French Roast coffees for a couple years now. I get them in the whole bean bags, and have a grind & brew coffee maker. I ran out of the Starbucks, and made coffee with a preground [name removed to protect the innocent}] brand. The amount of caffeine in the [Dragnet] brand was high.

So I'm curious if this is something anyone else has experienced? I use the measurer from the grinder, and measure 5 scoops and make six cups of coffee. So by my standards I'm using *less* coffee then the package says, yet the ground coffee (non-Starbuck's) has way more caffeine then the whole bean coffee.
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Old 02-27-2007, 09:29 PM
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I don't drink coffee regularly but when I do I prefer a high quality brand such as Kona. I also prefer to have favored coffee such as a mocha or vanilla flavored coffee. I also enjoy a cold or hot spiced Chai tea occasionally.
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Old 03-03-2007, 11:55 AM
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I like Kona too. I think it's a little pricey for day to day drinking but enjoy it a couple times a year.

I worked in a restaurant as a kid, and they served Kona coffee as part of the meal. I really enjoyed it. A year or so after I started working there they switched to a canned liquid instant coffee that was awful.

I don't know why they switched, and can't think that the canned instant coffee would be cheaper except perhaps for less wasted coffee [With the Kona they had two urns with about 5 gallons (I'm honestly guessing the volume here: the machine was 2 1/2 feet tall and each tank was about 14" in diameter) in each urn so they wasted a few gallons each night.]
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Old 03-04-2007, 06:07 PM
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I am a simple person and i love my coffee simple too but with lots of sugar in it.
Adding too many things to your coffee, takes the coffee thing out of it in my opinion.
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Old 03-05-2007, 11:44 PM
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ohh yum coffee .. I think I have to get this IV into my blood stream..

there are good kona coffee out there but I have been on a sweet kick with my coffee recently so I am brewing a french vanilla and or I swtich it up with a chocolate raspberry

I do admit I am a coffee snob when it come to getting my coffe at starbucks and or any other coffee house .... when I order a simple latte I want a latte not a cappuccino or a stirred espresso with some bearly warm milk .. yuck
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My mom send me alot of fancy coffee. I never tell her that I'm not really fond of those. :-)

I just like cafe latte from Starbucks. That simple.
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goodness....all of these different coffees makes me glad I don't have the decision to make.

I'm a tea girl myself - iced....just plain ol' lipton bags.
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Old 03-27-2007, 08:04 AM
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I don't drink coffee, but I do like tea, especially the orange spice herb tea.

And the chai lattes at Starbucks.
I have switched from the white chocolate mochas to the chai tea at starbucks and it is so good. I am glad that I switched. I think my hips were starting to pay the price of all those mochas.
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