Hey there geekos!
One of my favorite rituals. Can’t start the morning without it. My favorite sports club mug, filled with nice brown fluid that gives me strength to get through the day 
Luckily, I get out enough and exercise, so no blood pressure issues so far
http://i58.tinypic.com/14dosus.jpg
(It’s almost empty, but it felt good! lol!)
As for the coffee brands, i drink mostly locally produced coffee, but I’m a great fan of Ethiopian Harrar coffee. What about you guys? Regards,
Here in Canada most people just go and buy coffee from Tim Hortons. Making it yourself is almost unheard of. But I am guessing in other parts of the world you guys get to make it yourself. One of my professors from New Zealand was talking about how disgusting the coffee is here and how much better it was in NZ 
(There are people here that pay lots of money for starbucks coffee).
What’s Tim Horton? A cheaper local version of Starbucks?
Yep, here, brewing turkish coffee is a tradition. So we mostly prepare it home, unless we’re going out to a cafe (but not a coffee place like starbucks or mccafe, a classic cafe, italian style, chairs, stools ‘n’ espresso :)). The coffee houses a la starbucks aren’t really a hit. But we don’t have Starbucks. When they arrive, it will probably be a game changer.
On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 06:46:02 +0000, holden87 wrote:
> Hey there geekos!
>
> One of my favorite rituals. Can’t start the morning without it. My
> favorite sports club mug, filled with nice brown fluid that gives me
> strength to get through the day Luckily, I get out enough and
> exercise, so no blood pressure issues so far
>
> [image: http://i58.tinypic.com/14dosus.jpg]
>
> (It’s almost empty, but it felt good! lol!)
>
>
> As for the coffee brands, i drink mostly locally produced coffee, but
> I’m a great fan of ‘Ethiopian Harrar coffee’
> (http://tinyurl.com/o2xcw7t). What about you guys? Regards,
I have the occasional coffee - I only recently started drinking it. I
find that there’s a Kenyan AA blend that I really like, and the first I
had that I liked was (IIRC) from El Salvador. I’m not as keen on more
bitter blends - that just doesn’t work for me unless I put a lot of milk
& sugar in it.
Most mornings I have lemon-ginger tea, or occasionally mint tea, though.
Jim
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On 2014-07-15 14:36, holden87 wrote:
>
> What’s Tim Horton? A cheaper local version of Starbucks?
> Yep, here, brewing turkish coffee is a tradition. So we mostly prepare
> it home, unless we’re going out to a cafe (but not a coffee place like
> starbucks or mccafe, a classic cafe, italian style, chairs, stools ‘n’
> espresso :)). The coffee houses a la starbucks aren’t really a hit. But
> we don’t have Starbucks. When they arrive, it will probably be a game
> changer.
I have seen one or two in Madrid. Usually for tourists from the other
side of the Atlantic, that don’t know better, or for the local
yuppies-snobs :-p
Similar to burguerkin and macdonals things.
(intentional misspelling ;-p )
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
On 2014-07-15 14:26, alanbortu wrote:
>
> Here in Canada most people just go and buy coffee from Tim Hortons.
> Making it yourself is almost unheard of.
ROTFL!
I happen to know. I’ve lived there.
I luckily I was not drinking my tea the instant I was reading that, or
now I’d be wiping the display and keyboard. Messy stuff to clean, sweet
tea…
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
I’m down to just one cup of coffee a day…
http://www.precisionnutrition.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/w-Giant-Coffee-Cup75917.jpg
rotfl!
Looks a bit tricky to drink out of, I need a straw.
That’s how you can keep from staining the front of your teeth (though the back of your teeth is another matter).
I actually start with 1 travel mug on my way to work, and then 2-3 cups in the AM before lunch. Then I switch to soda.
Sometimes there may be a cup in the evening as well.
Here’s my favorite:
https://www.zoegas.se/vart-kaffe/skanerost/
Really tasty and aromatic, with beans from East Africa, Brazil and Central America. Did you know that the Finns are the worst coffe addicts, we Swedes are only second.
When I grew up, in rural central Sweden, cowboy coffee was dominating, but moving south I had to give that habit up, cowboy coffee needs really god water, such water you get up in the high lands.
On 2014-07-15 21:36, dragonbite wrote:
> I actually start with 1 travel mug on my way to work, and then 2-3 cups
> in the AM before lunch. Then I switch to soda.
That’s because you are just drinking stained water
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
That is basically what Tim Hortons is like. But I still drink it because on some days I just cannot stay awake in class and it lets me get through the day.
Uh, great to see the thread has caught on I’ve been trying hard for the community & fun section for a couple of months now, do help out guys!
Anyway, I switched to a Serbian brand called Doncafe today. Not as good as tasty as Barcaffe from Slovenia, but it will make do for a week or two
Well I’m not much for warm beverages (more of a cold person).
#10 wrote:
When I grew up, in rural central Sweden, cowboy coffee was dominating, but moving south I had to give that habit up, cowboy coffee needs really god water, such water you get up in the high lands.
Another nice combination is cowboy coffee and vodka, also called Kask in Swedish. Karskt in Norwegian. A k a Russian tea(!) in the rest of the word.
Well we have a Starbucks in town. Not to popular what I have seen. In Sweden most people doing their coffee at home or at work.
Worst I coffee I had was in US. Water damaged. Same as they local beer over there ;).
Regards
On 2014-07-16 07:16, alanbortu wrote:
>
> robin_listas;2654211 Wrote:
>> On 2014-07-15 21:36, dragonbite wrote:
>>> I actually start with 1 travel mug on my way to work, and then 2-3
>>> cups in the AM before lunch. Then I switch to soda.
>>
>> That’s because you are just drinking stained water
>
> That is basically what Tim Hortons is like. But I still drink it because
> on some days I just cannot stay awake in class and it lets me get
> through the day.
Yeah, I did that myself over there, one coffee per hour till I managed
to stay awake. Jet lag plus early hours. The fellows there did not
understand I could drink so much coffee. Till one day one came home with
me, and we invited him to just a small cup of Spanish coffee. He said it
was wonderful coffee.
Next day he said he could not sleep at all during that night, and that
he now understood why I drank so much Canadian coffee! X’-)
Actually, nowdays I do like weak coffee. I make it sometimes, weak on
big mug (one of those with thermal isolation). Easier on the nerves. As
you get older, it becomes more difficult to get good quality sleep, so
better drink less coffee.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))
On 2014-07-15 19:06, Jim Henderson wrote:
> I have the occasional coffee - I only recently started drinking it. I
> find that there’s a Kenyan AA blend that I really like, and the first I
> had that I liked was (IIRC) from El Salvador. I’m not as keen on more
> bitter blends - that just doesn’t work for me unless I put a lot of milk
> & sugar in it.
>
> Most mornings I have lemon-ginger tea, or occasionally mint tea, though.
Twining English breakfast tea here, with milk, on the mornings. Earl
grey on the evenings. Other kinds are difficult to find in Spain. Prince
of Wales very occasionally, as the tin is hard to find, and refills of
any kind, next to impossible.
The paperbag kinds are easier to find, but I much prefer the spoon kind.
PG tips, for instance.
Russian tea is quite nice, but expensive.
Recently I discovered gunpowder tea. I got a Chinese box as a present,
and I have been unable to get replacements. It was wonderful. It comes
in little balls, and as my box was old, they were black and dry outside,
greenish inside. The combination was wonderful.
Tweenings does sell gunpowder tins here, since recently, but they don’t
even come close to that Chinese tea.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))
At my last company there wasn’t free coffee (boo!) so we had a “coffee club”. We took over an empty cube and put a coffee pot in there and every so often we each pitched in about $5 and get the most coffee we could from a local wholesale club (Costco I think). Often, we would go through 2-3 pots of coffee during the course of the day.
The day after I left the company (not necessarily by choice, but things worked out for the better afterwards anyway) they noticed that the same pot from the morning was still there at the end of the day! Made them wonder just how much coffee did I drink?!!
Later on I found out that the other heavy coffee drinker had just happened to quit drinking coffee at that point for unrelated reasons.
Still, their initial reaction was priceless!
dragonbite wrote:
> At my last company there wasn’t free coffee (boo!) so we had a “coffee
> club”. We took over an empty cube and put a coffee pot in there and
> every so often we each pitched in about $5 and get the most coffee we
> could from a local wholesale club (Costco I think). Often, we would go
> through 2-3 pots of coffee during the course of the day.
>
For many years, my coffee habit was a 12-cup pot brewed while coaxing my
eyes open in the morning. I also stumbled onto my favorite at Costco when
other local markets got too proud of their brands. The 100% Columbian dark
roast house brand is by far the most satisfying brew I’ve found - as well as
being among the cheapest!
Years of flying followed by more years of electronic design or programming
formed a habitual consumption of approximately 1 pot (half a gallon or 2
liters) per work day. Drives the doctors nuts…
–
Will Honea
jonte1 wrote:
> Worst I coffee I had was in US. Water damaged. Same as they local beer
> over there ;).
>
Tell me about it! I rarely drink any major US brand of beer - tastes like
their horses are diabetic…
My coffee brewing improved drastically when I got tired of the wife
complaining and installed an osmatic filter on the kitchen faucet. I never
realized how the taste of the local municipal water supply had degraded
until then.
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Will Honea
From the Horse’s mouth :). I have dwell just outside my property used for brewery. Clean, Cold and ready to use.
Regards
