The Company Coffee

We have the "cory" brand for our work's coffee service. If it's fresh, it's decent...yeah, anything past a half hour, and I swear you can taste the blue stuff they clean the decanters with.

We have a few dominican guys here at work who like really REALLY strong coffee, and if they get the chance to make it (early birds...must be the caffeine) they make 2 pouches in one batch. Hella nasty.

I tell them to just get instand espresso, as they are ruining perfectly good coffee. Always is my opinion met with "feh".

I love good coffee. I don't even bother to try the stuff here at the school. I grind and brew my own at home before work and I don't drink coffee during the day...don't want to become a caffeine addict.

Just in general I don't usually drink coffee that's been sitting on a burner for more than 20 or 30 minutes anywhere. When I was at my sister-in-law's house last Christmas they thought I was nuts or something for that... She also got visibly angry when my wife told her that I don't like flavored coffee. It probably bugged her even more when she found out that I brought my own coffee.

brad cook

i make coffee at home. at the office - we don't have a machine, nor do i want any nutcase pissing in it

Everyone's using hella now, wow.

I make tea, coffee makes me sick unless it's perfectly brewed.

I don't have a workplace right now, but i spend most of my time at college, and the only coffee availible there is from one of those vending machines. It's horrible. I like my coffee black, and very strong. The coffee out of the machine is wek and watery. When I make coffee with the coffee maker I use at least 3 scoops. It's great to see the faces of my family when I'm the first one up and I make the coffee. They get pretty wide eyed with the first drink

P. Aaron said:

I buy flavoured...beans

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Why people have to go and add flavoring to a perfectly good beverage is beyond me. That's like being handed the nectar of the gods and then asking for some sugar packets.

brad cook

i drink Illy espresso in the morning, a good slap in the face to wake up. on the job i drink 1 or 2 regular (strong) coffee. i've heard about US coffee that it tastes like....mmmmhh, water.

DigMe said:

Why people have to go and add flavoring to a perfectly good beverage is beyond me. That's like being handed the nectar of the gods and then asking for some sugar packets.

brad cook

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+1

I buy locally roasted coffee. Shelburne Falls coffee, to be exact. when I worked for a company, I brought a thermos of my home coffee, now that I work for myself, it's no change. OTOH, I'm not too much of a coffee snob... if Dunkin Donuts is the only coffee there, I'll drink it, I'd just rather have the good stuff.

Josh's coffee = strong and black.

cosmodrone, we have real coffee now, same as beer. It's not all bud and maxwell house.

Jeebus H. Christmas... the ONE time I use "hella" and everyone takes the piss-out-of-me.

Blisshead said:

if Dunkin Donuts is the only coffee there, I'll drink it,

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I've only had Dunkin Donuts coffee once and it was far better than anything I've ever had at the workplace. It was also far better than any coffee I've had from any other fast food place.

brad cook

cosmodrome said:

i've heard about US coffee that it tastes like....mmmmhh, water.

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Just depends on where you get it and how it's brewed.

brad cook

Work made me into a coffee drinker. Specifically, one job did. From 1986 to 1987 I worked in the engineering department at WHCT-TV (channel 18), an independent UHF TV station in Hartford, Connecticut.

It seems that after spending millions to build the station, the owners had little money left to buy decent programming. My workday started at 7 A.M., and having to keep an eye on really low-grade (even by commercial TV standards) TV programming that early in the morning was like having a job counting sheep and drinking warm milk. So that started my regular caffeine habit.

One morning I came in suffering from a cold and went straight to the lunch room to get some hot coffee. With my nasal congestion I couldn't detect the burned smell in the air, and I poured some coffee into a styrofoam cup. The overnight guys had apparently left the pot on the heater all night, and I didn't realize that until I poured some milk into my cuppa joe and the coffee didn't even change color. Eww. 20W-50 coffee. No thanks.

The office coffee here at QSC isn't too bad, but I'll only drink it with milk, half & half, or cream; it's not good enough to drink black. I don't like non-dairy creamer; they always leave a gooey feeling and aftertaste in my mouth, especially the powder. Disneyland uses non-dairy creamer powder as fuel for the fire-breathing dragon in its "Phantasmic" show, and I think that's a more valid application for the vile stuff.

Dunkin' Donuts' coffee is pretty good, IMHO. So is Tim Horton's.

big handful of non-dairy creamer + campfire = big fireball. I found that out as a kid. --Scared the crap out of a few of my friends.

MJ5150 said:

What sucks is that it smells good. I often find myself getting caught up in the "well, maybe it tastes good today since it smells so good". Nope, I'm wrong everytime.

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SUCKER!!!!

HA! Nice...a 2-fer!

Hey, as with Eric C, if it's good enuff for No Doubt, it's good enough for me.

double

Not sure about the brand of coffee here at work. It'll do in a pinch. My preference is a grande triple latte from Starbucks. Although it's an expensive drink...taste wise, it can't be beat IMHO.

Nothing like flyin' through the day on a triple shot of espresso. Yeeeeaahhhh!