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Title: Woot! It's National Coffee Day!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 29, 2015, 10:04:45 pm

Enjoying a homemade mocha right now.  ;relish

Thoughts, gwilly?

Title: Re: Woot!
Post by: vonbach on September 29, 2015, 11:03:24 pm

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It's National Coffee Day!

Thats fairly redundant lolz. Every day is national coffee day in the USA.
We couldn't last 36 hours without coffee in this country. I know people that
cant go four hours without coffee and I'm getting there myself. Even more amusing
I work in a coffee shop.

Title: Re: Woot! It's National Coffee Day!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 29, 2015, 11:07:50 pm

Wow.  That really doesn't strike me as your style...

Title: Re: Woot! It's National Coffee Day!
Post by: ColdWizard on September 30, 2015, 12:11:35 am

Too hot, too bitter, not worth drinking.

Title: Re: Woot! It's National Coffee Day!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 30, 2015, 12:14:20 am

Any coffee in particular, or all of it?

Title: Re: Woot! It's National Coffee Day!
Post by: ColdWizard on September 30, 2015, 12:24:52 am

Well, iced coffee is not too hot clearly but still too bitter (and, from my understanding, an inferior blend). Unless you put stuff in it and then soon you have a coffee based dessert. Which is not really coffee. So all of it.

Title: Re: Woot! It's National Coffee Day!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 30, 2015, 12:31:04 am

Coffee is no different than beer in being an acquired taste many people acquire.  I take mine pretty heavily creamed and sugared - or did; I had to suffer for quite a while while my tastes adjusted to a small fraction as sweet after the diabeetus came on.

Title: Re: Woot! It's National Coffee Day!
Post by: ColdWizard on September 30, 2015, 12:40:16 am

Alcohol has a particular nastiness that overwhelms any ability I have to differentiate it's various forms. Beer/champagne = carbonated nasty. Vodka/whiskey/bourbon = non-carbonated nasty. Not sure about wine, haven't wasted enough of it to learn any differences.

Of course, it's merely possible that both the alcohol and coffee have been cheap stuff but I've seen no reason to dabble in anything more expensive.

Title: Re: Woot! It's National Coffee Day!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 30, 2015, 01:19:28 am

I've never acquired that taste, either.

Title: Re: Woot! It's National Coffee Day!
Post by: Rusty Edge on September 30, 2015, 03:18:37 am

I had no idea.
As it happens, I had a Spanish Coffee at dinner tonight-
Coffee laced with 2 kinds of rum and topped with whipped cream.

Title: Re: Woot! It's National Coffee Day!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 30, 2015, 03:36:00 am

Rum, I think I could acquire the taste for, did I not love being in control of myself so.

Title: Re: Woot! It's National Coffee Day!
Post by: Lorizael on September 30, 2015, 03:40:19 am

Love the smell of coffee. Can't stand the taste. Used to work in a coffee shop, so whatever it is, I've tried it.

Title: Re: Woot! It's National Coffee Day!
Post by: vonbach on September 30, 2015, 04:25:28 am

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Wow.  That really doesn't strike me as your style...

I'm a night baker in a coffee and donut shop. I've been doing it for
something like 20 years. We tend to be a little eccentric. Coffee is nice but I'm particular about what I drink.

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Alcohol has a particular nastiness that overwhelms any ability I have to differentiate it's various forms. Beer/champagne = carbonated nasty. Vodka/whiskey/bourbon = non-carbonated nasty. Not sure about wine, haven't wasted enough of it to learn any differences.

I like beer. I only brink imported European beer unless I have no choice.
Try Fransiskaner.

Title: Re: Woot! It's National Coffee Day!
Post by: ColdWizard on September 30, 2015, 07:46:05 pm

Coffee does tend to smell good.

Edit: And alcohol smells awful.

Title: Re: Woot! It's National Coffee Day!
Post by: vonbach on October 01, 2015, 02:24:54 am

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Edit: And alcohol smells awful.

Depends on the alcohol. Wine smells nice but tastes vile.

Title: Re: Woot! It's National Coffee Day!
Post by: ColdWizard on October 01, 2015, 04:31:28 pm

Quote from: vonbach on October 01, 2015, 02:24:54 am

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Edit: And alcohol smells awful.

Depends on the alcohol. Wine smells nice but tastes vile.

Like the taste, the smell also tends to blast away any nuances that others are able to detect.

Title: Re: Woot! It's National Coffee Day!
Post by: Valka on October 01, 2015, 11:06:39 pm

I take my caffeine in pop. Coffee = yuck, as far as I'm concerned. I can't stand the taste, and the smell is horrible as well.

My dad could never understand that, and kept trying to get me to have some. So finally I told him to just be glad he didn't have to share his with anybody.

Title: Re: Woot! It's National Coffee Day!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on October 01, 2015, 11:12:52 pm

This is an interesting thread, and nothing like I anticipated when I started it.

Title: Re: Woot! It's National Coffee Day!
Post by: ColdWizard on October 02, 2015, 04:22:34 am

I used to take my caffeine in soda. Been off it for three weeks and counting.

Title: Re: Woot! It's National Coffee Day!
Post by: Valka on October 02, 2015, 06:11:10 am

Quote from: BUncle on October 01, 2015, 11:12:52 pm

This is an interesting thread, and nothing like I anticipated when I started it.

You didn't expect a thread about coffee to include a discussion of caffeine?  ???

Title: Re: Woot! It's National Coffee Day!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on October 02, 2015, 02:04:15 pm

Just not what I expected.

Title: Re: Woot! It's National Coffee Day!
Post by: ColdWizard on October 02, 2015, 04:05:47 pm

I would have expected caffeine to show up before booze.

Title: Re: Woot! It's National Coffee Day!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on October 02, 2015, 04:09:36 pm

There it is. ;nod