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Slick:
I'm pretty sure I wrote about liking shitty coffee a little while ago.
I drink whatever I can get at the bulk barn or where I happen to be shopping when I'm out, brewed in a moka pot. Nice and strong. The moka pot is also incredibly handy for when you want to add coffee to a baking recipe but not off-set the liquid so much (or use instant crystals). Having stove-top espresso type drink is good enough that I don't mind mediocre beans. Would consider getting an aeropress if my moka broke.

I used to have to get coffee from Tim Horton's rather than the organic fair-trade stuff we sold where I worked, because ours irritated my digestive tract. Happened with a handful of other people I've known. Something about certain kinds of coffee and certain kinds of people.

Hairy Joe Bob:
I drink loads of coffee. Far too much coffee than is probably good for me. On a good (or is it bad?) day I will drink 2 cafetieres of coffee. Before lunch. Taylor's Lazy Sunday is my current favourite. It is divine. Black, with one sugar. Hot sweet heaven in a mug.

pwhodges:
Lazy Sunday isn't my routine coffee, but I get it from time to time to relish its rich smoothness.

est:
Khar, to me most instant coffee tastes like it's got metho or mineral turps or something in it, so I wouldn't call "terrible" a bad word to use about it at all.  That's not coffee-snobbery, it's just what my taste-buds tell me.  There are maybe two brands of instant coffee that I can stomach, and even then only certain blends.  I have no idea why, because I used to drink it a hell of a lot from my teens through to about five or so years ago.  If I could drink it then it'd be great, because I'd be able to just flip the kettle on and do as you do, which is way simpler than the rigmarole I've got to go through for a cup.  But I like the end product of my rigmarole, so I guess it's what I'm stuck with.

Also, I was reminded the other week about the difference between a good cup of cafe coffee and a fucking great one.  We went to a new cafe up the road (Shenkin, in Erskineville) to try it out and the baristas there really know their shit.  One of the best coffees in this area, and this area is saturated with cafes.  The Toby's Estate store up the road is pretty good, the Campos place is good but over-rated, and this place is better than both of them.  I've tried going for a walk at lunch during the week to experiment with some of the cafes around my work, but none of them are any good.  They all serve the coffee way too hot (sometimes too hot to touch), which means it fucks the milk up and makes it too bitter.  I'm toying with the idea of asking for it "not too hot" or something, but I don't really know if that'll help things overly much if they can't realise for themselves that it's too hot.

Jimmy the Squid:
My girlfriend does that. If anything it seems to just piss off the baristas and they make her coffee more hot than usual.

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