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Aniki-Moderator's picture

Rakastan khavia!!!

I'm a Finn. Finnish people are serious about their coffee and are the largest consumers of coffee in the world, averaging 12 kilos per year. DH and I drink more than our share - 45 or more kilos a year (that's over 100 pounds).

In a family with 5 children, I'm the only one who got the Coffee Gene (all of my siblings are tea drinkers...sigh). I like it black as pitch and STRONG. DH and I brew our coffee separately because I actually brew it too strong for DH (who is German/Italian)!

The beans are finely ground and I use twice as many as most people (think Turkish grind and espresso-strong). Okay, okay, I confess... I really EAT SLABS of coffee.
Wink

How do you drink coffee? Black, blonde, half-caf, decaf, cream/milk, sugar, or not at all?

P.S. NO, I do not consume kaffeost.

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momjeans's picture

We consume a lot of coffee here too. DH doesn't brew it as strong as I'd like him to, on average, so we try to meet somewhere in the middle.

I'm a big press or pour over person, with a little flavored almond milk. I love a good Cubano when I order out. Luckily, where I live we have a good amount of exceptional coffee shops.

B22S22's picture

It depends on the time of day how I like my coffee, and I'm a HUGE coffee drinker too (regular coffee maker in my kitchen, my own personal full-sized Keurig in my home office). In the morning, I like it straight black and hot. In the evening, I'll put half and half in it. Caffeine seemingly has no effect on me, so it doesn't bother me a bit to drink a cup of coffee at 10pm, I can still go to bed and be dead asleep in 20 minutes.

I used to have this big coffee mug that said "Dark as night; sweet as sin; hot as hell" on it and I carried it everywhere at work (when I worked outside of the home). One day, someone in all seriousness asked me, "Is that how you like your coffee?" My response was, "Nope, it's how I like my men." Wink

My daughter gave me a coffee mug for Christmas this past year, one of those really big ones that says "Momma *NEEDS* some coffee" and I'm the one who posts coffee memes on facebook.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust... life's a bitch, coffee's a must.

Aniki-Moderator's picture

Caffeine has no effect or me either. I've gone to sleep after drinking a quad-shot latte!

Coffee and wine memes are my faves!! Biggrin

Cover1W's picture

DH and I like coffee strong, not espresso strong but Italian strong. But maybe it's Finn strong because...You know I'm a Finn too and I LOVED the Finnish coffee when I was there with that cream, that heavenly cream they have in Finland.

Our Keurig broke a couple years ago and I got a regular coffee maker, but make it black enough you cannot see through the carafe (that is not good coffee if you can see through it!). I have a cup with a piece of toast before I leave the house, then go exercise. At work I'll generally have black tea but every so often another cup of coffee (like today).

On weekend I'll brew a big carafe or do a french press. Summer I'll throw in some cold-brew to steep.

I like it with cream and sugar (but not too sweet just to take off the bitter edge).

And never, ever after 12:00 noon or I'll be up till 3:00 am.

Aniki-Moderator's picture

Hey Cover, what that korppu toast?

IMHO, Italian coffee is nowhere near as strong as Finnish coffee. When my parents were in Finland, Dad ordered Mom a half cup of coffee and hot water so she could have coffee the way she liked (weak to me!!).

I drink iced coffee - when I'm so busy I don't have time to drink it or I get pulled into a meeting and return to a cold cuppa. I rarely drink tea (to me, that's an "I'm sick" drink), but when I do it's hot green tea, with nothing added.

Aniki-Moderator's picture

The korppu brand we buy is Trenary Toast. It's great for dunking in coffee, tea, hot chocolate...

Aniki-Moderator's picture

I like espresso with whipped cream, but you can keep those chocolate sprinkles. If I want chocolate, I'm adding Godiva Chocolate Liqueur!

Aniki-Moderator's picture

I didn't know that. I have a friend who drank coffee AND smoked throughout 4 pregnancies. Apparently, she smoked so much that the doctor told her to cut down but not completely quit because of withdrawal (I think). All of her babies were 8-9 pounds.

Decaf is the devil.

Aniki-Moderator's picture

Monchichi, why did you remove your cappuccino comment?? :?

There's nothing wrong with cappuccinos and lattes! xoxo

Tuff Noogies's picture

i drink coffee out of a beer mug. shocking, right? Wink but actually, it holds the temp longer. i've only ever had one "client" notice.

i can drink it in any form ONLY if it's light (half-n-half, not milk) and sweet. i'll drink tea occasionally but only straight up (except for a nice chai latte).

Aniki-Moderator's picture

Tuff, why am I not surprised? Blum 3

We have very thick ceramic mugs that hold double what a regular coffee cup holds. They keep drinks hot very well.

Tuff Noogies's picture

yeah mine is a 16 oz mug. i used to drink two full mugs daily but have actually cuz back quite a bit.

Aniki-Moderator's picture

Cut back?? :jawdrop:

Tuff Noogies's picture

lol yup but not intentionally or consciously. more often than not my body has just been craving the h3ll out of some icewater. i always drink a lot of water during the day anyway, but when i walk back to the kitchen to grab breakfast it's like "mmmmmmmmmmm ice...." Dirol

but i'm no coffee slouch, i started drinking it daily at school when i was in eighth grade Wink

sunshinex's picture

I love my Keurig. I don't like overly strong coffee but it's gotta be strong with a bit of milk and 2 sugars Smile

I continue to drink 1-2 cups a day during pregnancy because I really don't think I could get up and start work without it! Plus, being pregnant has been making me SO tired lately so by 1-2 pm I have to have that second cup to make it until 5.

Exjuliemccoy's picture

I didn't start drinking coffee until I was thirty. DH got me hooked.

I like it black and STRONG. I used to say, "I use coffee as a drug. I don't want it to taste good, i want it to work!"

We like blonde and chickory coffee best, adding espresso if an extra boost is needed.

Aniki-Moderator's picture

Exjulie, I'd probably need 1/2 a pound of blonde roast for one mug of coffee!!

Aniki-Moderator's picture

Half-and-half?? ~sob~

My DH drinks black coffee at work, but he drinks it with sugar and creamer at home.

ESMOD's picture

Shamefully, I only like the fancy frozen latte styles. Really nothing more than a caffeinated kiddie drink.

I never picked up the coffee or tea habit.

thinkthrice's picture

whole bean coffee ground in a burr grinder, run through my Italian coffee maker with a touch of half and half. LOTS of it

Aniki-Moderator's picture

I used to drink Café Francais!! My DH occasionally uses it like creamer. Biggrin

Tuff Noogies's picture

i used to drink the french vanilla back when i was young and single and freshly launched. their chai latte is yummy also!!!

Cover1W's picture

That's what I started with when I first drank "coffee" - you could make as much as you wanted with a kettle in the dorm room.

Acratopotes's picture

coffeeee mmmmmm GErman back ground, take my coffee black and strong...

if the spoon is not standing up straight in the brew - it's not strong enough, I use to drink about 14 cups a day, now I'm down to 5 a day...

SO doe snot drink coffee lol and my mum says she can have one coffee at my house and drink water for 3 days to have her fill off coffee... I make it that strong, either you drink it or you don't get coffee....

Acratopotes's picture

}:) }:) }:) }:)

due to my long nails I did not pick that up hehehehehe

SO does not do snot, aniki.... he produces something like snot from his elephant nose Wink