Are you a coffee drinker?

**Katybird** · 01-01-2006, 01:39 PM

If you are, how do you drink your coffee?  Do you like it sweetened and with cream, or do you drink it straight and black?  Do you like flavored coffees?  If you do, do you make them at home or do you prefer to purchase them at coffeehouses or other stores?  Do you have a favorite brand that you are loyal to or do purchase the most frugal brand?  What kind of coffeemaker do you use?

I love coffee and I drink it with sugar (lots of it

) and creamer.  I don't mind a flavored coffee once in a while, I will purchase a flavored cappacino at the convenience store when getting gas once in a while but I don't make flavored coffee at home ever. 

I am a loyal Folger's customer.  I have tried others but I always came back to Folgers and now I never stray away from it. 

I have a programmable Mr Coffee maker that I set to have my coffee ready at 4:15am when I work.  It turns itself off automatically in 2 hours (I love that feature).

**mizniteowl** · 01-01-2006, 01:50 PM

Yup, I'm a coffee drinker. I used to drink it with 2 sugar and cream but have downed that to 1 sugar. It was too much all of a sudden. I also like the flavoured creamers once in a while, vanilla. Sometimes I'll set my coffee maker to go before I wake up but sometimes I just too lazy to set it up. In a pinch, any kind of coffee will do for me but I find myself buying mostly Maxwell House. No instant. Ick.

**Pepper** · 01-01-2006, 01:51 PM

I am a coffee drinker also.

I drink mine with sugar and french vanilla creamer! I also purchase Hill's Bro's Cappuccinno for home use. Not everyday though. I'm not a big fan of coffeehouses.

I use a Sunbeam coffeepot that I just got for Christmas!

**Pepper** · 01-01-2006, 01:51 PM

Forgot to say.....I only drink Folgers!!

**kymom** · 01-01-2006, 01:59 PM

Katybird I am just like you except my coffee pot is a thrift store find And I do stray from the brand some. Without coffee I have no I.Q. lol Around here the kids always ask is it b.c. or a.c. lo, Before coffee and after coffee lol lol

**krisathome** · 01-02-2006, 09:34 PM

Now you're talking! I am a coffee purist. We use a french press and only drink Millstone, Starbucks or Gevalia coffees-no flavors. And only whole bean. I do have a fancy espresso maker but usually just use the french press. Between my dh and myself, we go through about a lb. of coffee beans a week. It's getting to be an even more expensive love in the last few months though.

**beandsemom** · 01-02-2006, 09:46 PM

I take mine black; except for sometimes I'll put a little hazelnut or amaretto flavored creamer in just for a change. A few cups in the a.m. when I get up (i make it the night before,so all i have to do is turn it on) and then 2 - 3 more when i get to work!

**Michelle** · 01-02-2006, 10:01 PM

Yes, I am. I never get it while out though...I only drink 1 cup in the mornings, and I use flavored Coffeemate

I love Folgers too, but it's more expensive than the kind I usually buy, which is Maxwell House.

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**SewCrafty** · 01-02-2006, 10:49 PM

Die hard coffee drinker here!

Yes Jack and I are both hard core coffee drinkers, LOL He takes his with a tiny bit of vanilla flavored cream and milk, I drink mine black.

We are Folger's fans here too, but do occassionaly buy specialty coffee's. I will only drink raspberry flavored, but Jack likes lots of different flavors.

We perk ours on the stove but I do have a drip maker (Gevalia) for when company comes over and I need to make more at a time.

**jzkitten** · 01-03-2006, 01:28 AM

usually get Folgers if cheap if not store brand. I drink it with lots of sugar and homemade liquid french vanilla creamer. I have a Bunn coffee maker and love it.

**staceyy** · 01-03-2006, 01:48 AM

I used to be a coffee drinker. I now only drink it on occasion. I like my coffee with half & half, no sugar. I prefer flavored hazelnut. I have a preference for two brands: Maxwell House and Fortunes. I stay in hotels a lot (as I travel for my job), and so I have tons of packets of various brands that I"ve picked up from my stays; so this is what I use. A fair amount of times the coffee is Maxwell House but not always.

I don't drink coffee so much anymore as regular coffee upsets my stomach and dh refuses to drink decaf. I feel it would be a waste to make 2 pots of coffee even though our coffee is free. I do occasionally go to Starbucks for a cappuccino. I recently used my Marriott points to buy a coffee/cappuccino maker. The brand is Delonghi and it makes great robust flavored coffee unlike the cheap coffeemaker we had been using for years. The Delonghi model I received sells on the internet for several hundred dollars. I feel fortunate to have gotten it for free. It might just make a coffee drinker out of me again.

**staceyy** · 01-03-2006, 02:04 AM

I forgot to add that I used to buy flavored coffee beans and I would grind them with a small grinder that I have. But I don't bother anymore since we have so much ground coffee.

**missprimm** · 01-03-2006, 04:48 AM

Another purist here, just take it black no flavors an Italian brand made in my espresso machine. I usually only have 2 cuups in the morning. Maybe if I am out with friends a cup in the afternoon.

**duckduckgoose007** · 01-03-2006, 02:54 PM

Yep...diehard coffee drinker here,too.

I use only 8 o'clock ground French Roast coffee.

I take mine with lots of 1/2 & 1/2 & sugar.

Jim drinks De-caf 8 o'clock & drinks it black.

I have a small Mr Coffee drip & also a Gevalia pot I received free for buying some of their coffee.

Love my coffee!!!!