Coffee is our business. We have a mobile coffee cart that we set up 4 days a week in our local park. Greg is very fussy, and believes in using only fresh roasted beans and only grinds them just before use. (the grind is very important, a bad grind can cause over extraction, making the coffee bitter and the crema non existent) We care about our customers coffee experience with us.
Greg is a regular on the Coffee Snobs and Coffee Geeks forums.
Not much of a coffee drinker myself, but love the smell of fresh ground, freshly roasted coffee.
At least 8 cups a day. Today it was more like 10 as you do when travelling. Been to Rockhampton down to Gladstone (to pick up my motorbike Santa came early this year) and then across country back to Roma.
Ewwwwwww i cant stand the taste of coffee but i love the smell of it when its brewing away, if only it tasted as good as it smells I love my coke instead or a UDL can while im out with the scope
Jen, Jen , Jen It does taste as good as it smells. UDL just stuffs up a good Coke. Scotch is OK on it's own.
I have a small barista at home to make cuppacinos and the likes.
(coffee for me, hot chocolates for the wife and kids)
I have a 1 cup drip filter that sits on top of a normal cup at work and have either a hazelnut or a vanilla coffee as soon as I get in
I can't have any more than 4 a day otherwise I am awake all night buzzing.
A bag of ground beans lasts around 3 weeks
I cannot stand to drink Nescafe or the likes, it tastes like dishwater smells and I would rather go without.
I don't think of myself as an addict, more a connoissuer of good coffee.
I have a grinder so I can have freshly ground in my espresso machine at home. As JJJ says the grind is very important. Also use the frother to make hot chocs for the kids and chai lattes for my hubby Frank. Love the smell of a fresh brew permeating the house...yum.... Dont really like instant anymore, have become rather spoilt. Also detest over-roasted beans YUK.
Yep ... me too !
A brewed coffee every day is a must, usually first thing in the morning.
The only thing better is sharing it with that someone special as the sun rises ....
or
A flask of Coffee on a cool dry season morning at 4 am watching a good meteor shower.
or
A Sunday morning Coffee and a cooked Breaky after a big night out.
Coffee from 5:30am until 11:00am regularly 4-5 cups strong white 1 sugar a must every day yet strangley I don't like it after 12noon. Its a brain starter and a mild laxative.
I thought I was addicted to caffeine, I drank loads of coke and and coffee. Then I got a kidney stone (when I was 21, that was... er... next year, right!?). I didn't give it all up like I should have, but when I gave up coke I felt like crap for 3 days. I've been drinking coffee still for the last 10 years or so, but I gave it up 4 weeks ago. It was then that I discovered caffeine has no effect on me (save sending me to sleep), but I'm actually a sugar addict. After I gave up coke I ended up having my coffee white with 3 + cadbury drinking chocolate.
I quit drinking coke for 6 months, coupled with a bit of exercise and I lost 52kgs... eating habits changed a little, but not enough to warrant 52kg in 6 months.. walking 2k a day and no coke was all I did..
love a cup of coffee first thing of a morning and around 1or 2 am keeps you going
dont mind the old coke either thats another hobbie of mine i collect coke memoribila shelves and shelves of it and 10 or so big boxes heaps of signs and a fridge
peter
I quit drinking coke for 6 months, coupled with a bit of exercise and I lost 52kgs... eating habits changed a little, but not enough to warrant 52kg in 6 months.. walking 2k a day and no coke was all I did..
I have a small barista at home to make cuppacinos and the likes ...
... I cannot stand to drink Nescafe or the likes, it tastes like dishwater smells and I would rather go without.
I don't think of myself as an addict, more a connoissuer of good coffee.
I feel the same way. I only rarely drank "proper" coffee up until a few years ago. Now we have a modest machine at home, I've learned to use it and appreciate good coffee. Plus, my daughter is a trained barista and works part-time at Lindt.
I can't drink instant coffee anymore -- to me even the premium brands of instant taste like filth and as for Nescafe and International Roast ... Aaarggghhhhh! Yuck! (Sorry)
I usually drink a total of 3-4 cups per day. One for Brekkie (usually Tea) one for Morning Tea and one or two (more often two) in the evening. These consist of one or two cups of coffee and one or two cups of Dilmah tea (a very good cheapie). Plus, a 600ml Diet Coke per day.
I used to make instant coffee to take with me observing but I find it tends to make me more thirsty and don't like the after-taste when you're really tired and the mouth is dry and claggy. Nowadays I drink Diet Coke while observing -- even in tempratures down to minus five!!
Don't feel I'm addicted to caffeine -- can go without for days and no headache, temper-tantrums, palpitations or "other effects".
I'm not really a coffee drinker, I prefer Tea, but I don't mind the occasional cup of coffee. We have a coffee machine, until John (Xstream, thanks!) demonstrated the correct technique for use, the results were abysmal.
If I'm out I'd rather have bad coffee than bad Tea.
I bought a Nespresso machine. Am now packing away most of my other coffee-making stuff - this will do me. (Apart, maybe, for the ibrik/dallah for the occasional Turkish/Arabic coffee.)
But where to display/store the capsules? Nespresso's offerings are horrendously expensive! Ebay is my friend - I found a Melbourne supplier for a suitable stand for five columns of capsules:-
while im out with the scope 
Never gone without precious precious coke again.
