I've recently been drinking more coffee and want to know more about it! Please flood me with your favorite coffee, brands, how to make it etc, etc ^^ I'm curious and wanna know what to try next~

I have no favorite coffee I just need it to survive. :x I also have no favorite way to make / flavor it, always depends on my mood if I go for black coffee, milk coffee, sugar or not or if I take the time to make a homemade latte macchiato.

Today, latte macchiato sounds like the best option. crawls off to the kitchen

My favorite (and probably the worst for me) is a caramel macchiato. Uggghhhhh, it's so good.

If you really get to enjoy coffee, I'd suggest getting a single-cup brewer. Not one of the Keurig cup brewers! You can't adjust the strength of those, and I personally don't find them strong or flavorful enough for me; plus, they aren't good for the environment, and the K-cups are way more expensive per cup than using your own grounds.

Something like this, with a mesh filter you can fill with your own grounds, is great. It'll let you fill it with freshly-ground grounds if that turns out to be your thing :B it also means you can easily make your coffee as weak or as strong as you like. I actually own this machine - I have a few complaints, mostly about fitting weirdly-sized mugs in it, but it works well! I've had it a few years now and I've come to way prefer it to traditional pot coffee makers.

I rarely drink coffee, but when I do, I have to have some sort of milk in it... I can't stand black coffee. My favorites are mocha frappes and mocha lattes. Right now, I either use instant coffee (Trader Joe's brand was the last one I had and it was pretty good) or get something from McDonald's or a gas station.

I've had coffee from a French press coffee maker before, and it was amazing! The coffee had a well defined flavor and didn't taste watered down. I would like to buy one when I have my own place.

Is it a money thing or a space thing holding you back from getting a press? If it's money, I have an inexpensive one I bought off Amazon (this one here) that works fine c:

- It's a space thing. I literally have no more room for anything in the kitchen, since my parents take up the majority of the kitchen.

The press you linked is really cheap right now though... It's tempting. I might see about buying it and saving it for the future.

Straight up black coffee is nasty, imho. XDD

My personal favorites have to be mochas of any sort - peppermint, vanilla, regular, so on and so forth. Strong and sweet is preferable. McD's has some of the best coffee I've ever had and I've had my fair share up and down the east coast of the US.

Non-coffee but still really caffeinated drinks can be Starbuck's green tea frappe (which is a gift from heaven and my crack), the oreo creme frappes from Starbucks, and the cascara latte (which is admittedly about as strong as an espresso and tastes a bit bitter but I had that down in Savannah when I needed a kick. It's like an espresso but without the vibrating later. It's more for when you need to vibrate at that very moment.)

Oh oh oh, and macchiatos! Extra sweet and with a lot of caramel... mmm~

I'm in the middle of a bag of Deathwish coffee. It's supposed to be the strongest coffee in the world, or 54mg/fl oz. Which is at least twice as much as Starbucks. I like it enough, but I still have to douse my coffee in honey and milk to be able to actually drink it within a timely manner. Caribou also has a lot of caffeine, but normally I just get whatever is on sale. Just yesterday I picked up some Christmas peppermint dunkin coffee for cheap, and I'm excited to try it!

I drink Death Wish cuz I have a fairly dramatic need for caffeine... and here's my Death Wish referral link if you want to try it (the referral comes with a coupon, and helps me afford my coffee subscription!)

It's certainly the strongest coffee out there. It's not false advertising; they really do have a lot of caffeine just as they claim. So if you drink coffee for the caffeine like I do, well, I have to recommend them.

I used to dislike the taste of coffee, but it's become an acquired taste and now I even like to drink my coffee black (though I still prefer what I've always done - which is to put some milk in it, but nothing else).

I like either black or coffee with just cream! I can't stand any kind of sweetness in coffee for some reason x.x

i dislike sweet coffee. i will occasionally put 1 teaspoon of sugar in a 200cc cup, but mostly because at those times black coffee would hurt my stomach. otherwise i prefer black coffee. this doesn't mean i don't enjoy specialty coffees from places like starbucks [i have a coupon for a free small caffeine based drink from them, yay!] sometimes i drink the cheapest coffee in town. it is still good. not the best, but sometimes better than that at some cafes :p

when i drink it at home, i like to brew it turkish style [some call it greek style]. but i have yet to buy a copper coffee pot thing.

I've been working on the graveyard shift at a diner for over a decade. My coffee consumption is in the range of 2 pots a day. One of my faves is millstone coffee. Either their bed & breakfast blend or the one they call foglifter. Foglifter has a bolder taste and aroma, but the bed & breakfast blend goes down smoother

I love coffee so so much!!! I make myself a latte every single morning. Two shots of espresso, freshly steamed milk, and flavored syrup. Sometimes, I even make my own caramel and vanilla syrups. And I make a syrup with pumpkin in it in the fall. :O

If you really love espresso and strong coffee, you should keep an eye out for cold brew coffee. It has a really smooth, amazing coffee, but it's quite a lot of work to make it yourself, since you need filters, coarse ground fresh espresso beans, and about 24 hours to let it brew... But it is great if you spot it in a coffee shop! Our coffee shop served it poured over ice, then diluted with a bit of filtered water (to basically make an iced Americano). Then, we added a light shot (not a full ounce) of syrup (either vanilla, or for a few people, raspberry), and a shot or two of cream in the top. Amazing stuff! Of course, if you really love coffee flavor, you can drink it straight, or just get a shot or two of it over ice, with nothing added. :) But only if you like your coffee dark, stronger, and of course a bit bitter. (I feel like cold brew is way less bitter than standard espresso, too, though)

Hah, fancy seeing you here... I had to teach myself to drink coffee... I didn't always like it, either. :P I always like the SMELL of coffee. That's amazing. But I didn't like the bitterness of it. So anyway, when I went to college, I was forced to have a lunch plan that cost about 2000 bucks. BUT, I hated pretty much all of the food our campus offered, plus the portions were way too big when I DID eat there, so that I'd wind up turning one meal into two or three. So anyway, halfway through the year, I was WAAAAAY less than halfway through the money, and if I didn't use it up by the end of the year, I'd lose it. So I figured hey, let's blow it on sweet coffee drinks, and see if I can learn to love the taste like I do the smell... If I never learned to like it, it wouldn't be a complete waste, because at least I got SOMETHING from the money... :P It totally worked, and now I'm a complete addict. But anywho...

I rarely drink it, usually it's the back up for when we're too broke for soda. So I keep a tub of Folgers on hand. But I've switched to Jed's Coffee, which is from New Zealand and comes in tea bags (bean bags). Damn it's good.

My older sister has been working at Starbucks for a long time so she was the one to first introduce me to coffee when I was in middle school, but I started drinking it on a more regular basis when I started college. I have to have at least milk in with my coffee, but I do like to get the fancier espresso drinks out and about. I also prefer cold coffee, especially since I like it without sugar.
Currently my family has a trader Joe's coffee beans in the fridge, it doesn't have the most robust flavor but it's still good.

what you described sounds really interesting. can i use any type of coffee for the cold brew coffee, or a specific type/brand? [of course i will google it later on, lol - i just want to know what to look for exactly]

Theoretically, I suppose you could make it with anything, but in our coffee shop, we used the espresso beans. But, you really have to grind it quite coarsely (even more coarsely than regular drip coffee), instead of fine like you normally do for espresso.

I'm one of those people that likes the taste of coffee, but I can't stand it hot and I can't mix it properly to save my life. XP

So, I pretty much live on those cold bottled Starbucks frappuccino ones. The Mocha Light ones are my favorite. XD

My absolute FAVE is the Coconut Milk Iced Mocha Macchiato from Starbucks. Iced coffee is my JAM. Generally though, I only have hot coffee available to me in the morning - I usually get a half french vanilla, half dark roast coffee from Tim's.