Coffee

Yet more scientific support for our favorite beverage. http://osm.org/site/story/20051206coffee?currow=2

Plus, cudos for our TRUE patriots; http://osm.org/index_html
Hat tip to Glenn Reynolds http://www.instapundit.com/

OUR favorite beverage??? Me and Lone Star prefer Chardonnay!! Come on Bushie, you knew that!!!

I love coffee, I love tea I love the java jive and it loves me Coffee and tea and the jivin' and me A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, ...

I do love my coffee and I doubt that there are many people around that drink as much of the stuff as I do................... I'm such a coffee buff that I even roast my own coffee every week, I get my green coffee beans from Sweet Maria's http://www.sweetmarias.com/index.htm if you like coffee here is a fun web site with great coffee info.
how much do I drink??? ............. I start my day at 5:30 AM in front of my espresso machine I'll grind some Ethiopia/Sumatra blend as my machine heats up. once my machine is ready I'll make and drink three 2 oz. shots of pure espresso heaven. this will kick start my fanny over to my coffee machine and grinder to grind enough Costa Rica full city roast and 50%Brazil french roast to make a 12 cup pot of coffee................ I'll sit in front of my PC and by 8 AM I'll make another 12 cup pot. Linda will be up by then and she and I will drink that second pot.
At 2 PM I'll have another round of espresso three shots............. that will hold me over till dinner time when Lin and I will have another 12 cup pot of Joe ............. let me count this up, looks like I drink Plus or minus 19 nineteen 6 oz, cups of coffee and 6 six 2 oz shots of espressos a day........ every day for the past 15/20 years
This makes my doctor shakes her head in disbelief........ I never drink water, coffee is my only liquid along with maybe 2 cans of diet 7up.............

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Originally posted by fpczyz

I love coffee, I love tea I love the java jive and it loves me Coffee and tea and the jivin' and me A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, ...

I do love my coffee and I doubt that there are many people around that drink as much of the stuff as I do................... I'm such a coffee buff that I even roast my own coffee every week, I get my green coffee beans from Sweet Maria's http://www.sweetmarias.com/index.htm if you like coffee here is a fun web site with great coffee info.
how much do I drink??? ............. I start my day at 5:30 AM in front of my espresso machine I'll grind some Ethiopia/Sumatra blend as my machine heats up. once my machine is ready I'll make and drink three 2 oz. shots of pure espresso heaven. this will kick start my fanny over to my coffee machine and grinder to grind enough Costa Rica full city roast and 50%Brazil french roast to make a 12 cup pot of coffee................ I'll sit in front of my PC and by 8 AM I'll make another 12 cup pot. Linda will be up by then and she and I will drink that second pot.
At 2 PM I'll have another round of espresso three shots............. that will hold me over till dinner time when Lin and I will have another 12 cup pot of Joe ............. let me count this up, looks like I drink Plus or minus 19 nineteen 6 oz, cups of coffee and 6 six 2 oz shots of espressos a day........ every day for the past 15/20 years
This makes my doctor shakes her head in disbelief........ I never drink water, coffee is my only liquid along with maybe 2 cans of diet 7up.............

And I thought I drank a ot of coffee!

fpczyz, what kind of espresso machine do you use? I have a dead Gaggia Coffee in my kitchenright now. I sorely want to replace it with a nice heat exchanger machine and a Mazzer Mini, but that is a lot of money just for coffee.

Me, I much prefer iced tea (especially the sweet southern kind but any kind will do).

I agree with you, BT. In fact, I have to have my glass of iced sweet tea to get my day going ( even in the cold winter time) It is about 23 degrees here this morning and I am drinking iced sweet tea

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Originally posted by BT

Me, I much prefer iced tea (especially the sweet southern kind but any kind will do).

Mrs. Chips(Trudy) also prefers iced tea.

Frank,
I get the shakes badly just reading your daily diet pattern! One cup of Coffee made 50% Milk and 45% sugar and 5% coffee is enough to keep me within short walking distance of the Men's Room for at least 3 or 4 hours.

Funny, Cola beverages don't do that, Nor do Coffee Ice Cream or Shakes. (or White or Black Russians!).

I'll sit with the Ice tea drinkers for now, Thank You!

That Old Diet Coke has me under its spell.
The Bear

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bluetick
Junior Burger



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Posted - 12/07/2005 : 02:08:26
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fpczyz, what kind of espresso machine do you use? I have a dead Gaggia Coffee in my kitchenright now. I sorely want to replace it with a nice heat exchanger machine and a Mazzer Mini, but that is a lot of money just for coffee.

Bluetick: I think a Barista from Starbucks is your best bet for a every day no frills perfect shot of espresso for the money. Starbucks now owns the Italian company that makes this wonderful machine. This is a small heavy all metal no plastic machine that for me has been working perfectly twice a day for over 8 years. I also have the crown prince of espresso machines ($ 900 bucks +) Pavoni that I use on Sunday mornings and when friends come over. This was the machine that really started the home espresso craze that's sweeping the coffee industry today. The Pavoni is a beautiful machine but will not deliver a shot as good as the Barista.
What Roadfood.com is for road food http://www.coffeegeek.com is for coffee. Check it out you'll have all your coffee questions answered by the pros........

Frank,
Where do you load the Marshmallows?

BT ............... tea???? are you sure you were in the same Navy as I was??

and...... Al the Mayor has it ever occurred to you that it might be the 45% sugar and milk that's giving you the shakes?? ............... Drink it BLACK like a man.......... you wimp! ... lol
your cola has more caffeine in it then a cup of Joe so it must be the sugar. Shape up Al re-election time is near... we wouldn't want a tea drinking lady at the helm now would we?
This would be a good time to make a sly remark about Hilary but better judgment prevails...
I'll save it for next year.

I think I'm addicted to coffee ... but its my only vice (thats my story and I'm sticking to it) !

I drink several (4 or 5) large travel cups of the stuff every day !!

Maybe it'll make me live longer !

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scbuzz Posted - 12/07/2005 : 13:38:42
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I think I'm addicted to coffee ... but its my only vice

Maybe it'll make me live longer !

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scbuzz ....it might not make you live longer but it will take them more then thirty minutes to close your the casket...

I just bowed out of my office coffee club. Not because I don't drink coffee, but I end up having a diet coke when I wake up, and another on the way to work.
By that point, I don't get a caffeine kick until lunch time, but by then the coffee pot is empty and I'm too lazy to make a new pot.
My next diet coke comes during (get this!) "coffee" break at about 3pm.

I now try not having any more caffeine from when I leave work until the next morning. I think the evening diet coke was keeping me up too late.
...course, I still stay up late, so who knows.

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Originally posted by fpczyz

BT ............... tea???? are you sure you were in the same Navy as I was??

Yes--and it wasn't easy I admit. When I wintered-over in Antarctica, I had my mom send me a large "Care package" of Lipton intant sweetened tea with lemon and I horded it for 8 months.

The Navy did influence me in one way though. If I'm going to drink coffee at all, I prefer it very strong (as if it had been sitting in the pot a few hours as, in the navy, it often has). But just before I retired, that strong Navy coffee did me in--I ended up in the cardiac care unit with atrial fibrillation (a rhythm disturbance) and they never really found a cause but ultimately blamed it on the multiple double cafe mochas I'd drunk a few hours before. So these days, I have to opt for decaf--both coffee and tea.

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Originally posted by Scorereader

I think the evening diet coke was keeping me up too late.
...course, I still stay up late, so who knows.

Surely you know that they make caffiene-free diet Coke as well--when I've got no tea, I drink that too.

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Originally posted by BT




Surely you know that they make caffiene-free diet Coke

There's hardly a point to that.

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Originally posted by Scorereader

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Originally posted by BT




Surely you know that they make caffiene-free diet Coke

There's hardly a point to that.

Were you not saying that Diet Coke keeps you up? Perhaps wrongly, I assumed you were referring to the caffiene content which is avoidable, thus allowing you to have your preferred beverage and go to bed on time. Or am I missing something?

It's my preferred beverage BECAUSE of the caffeine. Diet coke: Caffeine, no sugar.

Without the caffeine I prefer other beverages.

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Originally posted by scbuzz

I think I'm addicted to coffee ... but its my only vice (thats my story and I'm sticking to it) !

I drink several (4 or 5) large travel cups of the stuff every day !!

Maybe it'll make me live longer !

No, you will just be awake a lot longer.

Our entire family makes several pots of Mellow Joy daily. We use the dark roast. I only make six cups at a time and yesterday we did it four times. We truly enjoy it.

http://www.mellojoy.com/

Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

Anyone who really loves coffee (not that there is anything wrong with tea or Pepsi) might want to consider roasting their own coffee beans. It can be done for next to nothing or you can spend 3 figures, your choice. I find 24 hour old roasted coffee beans to have flavor notes that you'll never find in store bought beans. The unroasted green beans however have quite a long shelf life. If anyone's interested, a great resource is http://www.sweetmarias.com/ Generally I use an inexpensive popcorn popper but I also have the Zach and Dani machine; with each having their strong points.
BTW Bushie, I went to those sites and didn't find anything on true patriots. I did at http://www.moveon.org/

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Sundancer7 Posted - 12/11/2005 : 06:37:59
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Our entire family makes several pots of Mellow Joy daily

Mellow Joy............... great name wonderful packaging, Linda and I have seen this coffee in our travels but never had the opportunity to partake. The packaging always looked to me that it would be a Cafe Du Monde type of Joe ................. wondering does it also have chicory in it??

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Originally posted by fpczyz

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Sundancer7 Posted - 12/11/2005 : 06:37:59
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Our entire family makes several pots of Mellow Joy daily

Mellow Joy............... great name wonderful packaging, Linda and I have seen this coffee in our travels but never had the opportunity to partake. The packaging always looked to me that it would be a Cafe Du Monde type of Joe ................. wondering does it also have chicory in it??
To my knowledge, there is no chicory in the coffee.

Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

Have to have my java in the morning or I'm incoherent and have a splitting headache. My first choice is a large White Castle coffee with heavy cream obtained from the restaurant. Then I brew a pot of store-bought White Castle coffee at work. If I brew it as strong as I really like it, it's a little too bitter so I cut it with a scoop of Chock Full of Nuts and the outcome is really mellow.

Paul, is Mellow Joy a regional brand or could I buy it in the Northern Kentucky area? It sounds great!

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Originally posted by Sandy Thruthegarden

Have to have my java in the morning or I'm incoherent and have a splitting headache. My first choice is a large White Castle coffee with heavy cream obtained from the restaurant. Then I brew a pot of store-bought White Castle coffee at work. If I brew it as strong as I really like it, it's a little too bitter so I cut it with a scoop of Chock Full of Nuts and the outcome is really mellow.

Paul, is Mellow Joy a regional brand or could I buy it in the Northern Kentucky area? It sounds great!

Mello Joy is a very old regional coffee and i have been puchasing it off their web site but a long time.

Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN