Black coffee is like single malt Scotch to me in the sense that I really like both and also have absolutely 0 difficulty understanding why others would not
Like when I was a barista I would grind the stuff. First thing I’d do is brew a triple shot & knock it back like a whisky at 4:30 am followed by a glass of water. Awful but got me thru a shift. Now I drink it like a customer. 😂
I know it's not what you were going down a far different path, but I did write a flash story back in the day involving coffee and metaphysics at the Heiss & Burg's Coffee Roasting Co
Me, to my Italian and Spanish colleagues as I waltz past them at 4pm holding my fifth latte macchiato of the day, observing the horrified looks on their faces
Ass is an acquired taste. You have to grind fresh and spend a pretty penny to get the best ass. Trust me, there's some great nutty or floral notes in that black coffee... ass...
As both a black coffee enjoyer and a Dark Souls enjoyer who is *constantly* disappointed with fan behaviour, I kind of want to make a framed print of this skeet and put it up in my studio space
My coffee is just a transport mechanism for hot chocolate and creamer. Sounds more adult to say "I had mocha this morning" than "I start my day with hot chocolate".
I am all about optics , because many other interactions with me are "this dude is like 12yr old".
I went to a church for a time where they supplied coffee and also hot chocolate packets. There's 0% chance anyone drank *that* battery acid without mixing in HC. Even the HC didn't make that swill work.
I think their point was "Satan exists, who else could make coffee that awful?"
I’m not a coffee scold because I think people should like what they like. You like milk and sugar? So do I, sometimes. Ketchup on a hot dog? Beans in chili? If that’s how you want it.
I've come to simply embrace that I'm a coffee whore, lol
Black coffee? Great!
With cream? Also great!
Fancy sweet cream in cold brew? Amazingly great!
The worst, rotgut diner coffee? Bring it!
Instant coffee, crystals too? I'm in!
Straight shots of espresso? Hell yeah!
Boozy coffee drinks? Amazing!
My grant proposals to investigate the obvious mutation that reduces the ability to perceive bitter that causes black coffee drinking keep getting rejected despite it having many applications
Some people’s tastebuds are especially sensitive to bitter tastes. Maybe that’s why you don’t like the taste of coffee. And that’s perfectly fine. Cudos to you for trying.
The variables in coffee are so wide - bean, grind, grinder, concentration, brew. I drink the coffee I make at home without anything in it, but I’ve dialed it in pretty tight. I don’t typically do it out in the wild, for sure.
have you tried 5 heaping tablespoons of milo (malt chocolate powder drink) and one half or less teaspoon of the mildest medium roast with the nicest scent you can find? it's probably not coffee anymore but hey it no longer tastes like bitter ass anymore it instead tastes like dentist's disapproval
I embrace the ass. Drinking it cold from the random mugs you've forgotten around your home and hoping you left them there sometime this week adds a certain thrill to ruining your blood pressure.
I like black coffee, but like bitter and sour flavors and astringency. I wouldn't outright recommend it to anyone. Drink the coffee you like best, and tell the BCDs to keep it pushin
I like my coffee with milk. I used to do sweetener too like Demerara sugar but now I just do milk. Black coffee works in a utilitarian sense but it's not enjoyable to me.
And this is why I have zero cal syrup for mine. The appearance of black coffee, the taste of not black coffee, with the caffeine of light roast coffee (because that's where the caffeine is)
But... you'll never not have coffee because there's no cream or sugar.
An old union steward taught me that with the rot-gut shop floor coffee. "Learn to drink this shit black, and you'll be able to drink the coffee anywhere you go."
True, but I still prefer a small splash of milk.
My Dad always had his coffee black, but would then add an ice cube or 2, which diluted it but cooled it enough he could drink it.
I once ended up in a shitty ratrap motel because I forgot there was a Nascar race that week. It was the end of a long day of travel and then work. Looked at the instant coffee they provided an thought "this has to be better than a raging caffeine headache". It was not.
At that point, I feel like you're literally only drinking the coffee for it's impact, and you might as well have a caffeine pill or energy drink, which you don't have to suffer through.
Actually, it taught me to appreciate the nuances of different brewed coffees, because the flavors are not masked. A fine coffee in a restaurant with a good meal is a treasured experience now.
And I can drink gas station coffee at 2am in the middle of nowhere when emergency dispatched to fix stuff.
Yes. I take my daily coffee with cream because the fat interacts with bitterness, but when I go to the specialty shops and get the really good beans that they roasted right there that day, I don’t find I need it. It’s more expensive. Usually worth the extra money.
Out of curiosity, do you normally drink coffee with milk, or just not at all? I'm a "with milk" drinker, and it's usually dire straits if I choose to drink it black, lol.
Yeah, I'll usually throw a bit of creamer in - not super fussy about what, half-and-half is great but 2% or oat milk is fine too, just something to bolster it and smooth it out a bit
look, i'm from the Pacific Northwest where the bookstores per capita is only topped by the coffee shops per capita & i also spent an entire year living in Colombia.
It's supposed to. That way, you have to spend a lot of effort convincing yourself you like it, and that gives you an unearned sense of superiority. It's all about the points.
On a related note if you do drink it black there’s nothing like moving to NYC, ordering coffee and hearing “Regular coffee?” saying why yes thanks, how nice he’s verifying I don’t want decaf or anything added like milk, just coffee. Then getting coffee with milk and sugar. Behold, a “regulah cawfee”
I mostly agree. I don't keep milk or sugar in the house but basically I like my coffee black with a lil bit of sugar so it has a slightly sweet but not sugary taste.
But I've also now taken to drinking Japanese instant coffee and it's my favorite.
I cringe at the realisation that I was, thankfully only briefly, one of those "why bother with coffee if you're going to add milk or sugar" bozos. 😶 Drink coffee in a way that delights you. Splash oat milk in the eyes of anyone who thinks your coffee choices are their business.
I’ve drank coffee for years. A hundred different kinds. And I can NOT do black coffee. It has to have some cream and sugar. I envy black coffee drinkers but also worry for their tastebuds.
7 grams per 4 oz of water
Pour over ( V Cone )
Dig a little divot in the middle
Do one big circle made of little circles
Let it bloom (wait 30 seconds)
Swirl it
Do another circle of little circles until out of water
Swirl it
Please stop trying to convince people to try nice coffee brewed well: I like coffee and the specialty harvest is likely to fail in the next few decades. So stop trying to get people to drink the precious
I decided I wanted coffee I was happy to drink back, and eventually I found it. But, it's a journey. And I roast my own now anyways, I'm not sure the stuff I liked is still available, it was $35 a pound before the pandemic, and kept selling out. Great stuff! Cosmic Coffee Roasting Maui Mocha.
oh. why put yourself through that if you don't need to? I only drink certain types of coffee black because most types available in the US are trash and don't taste good lll
I came around to ‘many crap cups can only be tolerated black’ because whatever quality present vanished when cream was added. Thinking about catering trucks in particular
I would recommend trying different coffee types and preparations. Try a light roast (which will have more caffeine to boot). Try pour over vs drip, etc. Black coffee highlights the difference in bean, roast, and method.
Or don’t, and drink your coffee the way you already like it. Why would I care?
I started drinking my coffee black/1 Splenda a few years ago (can't remember why). At home I drink it like that. If I'm drinking it elsewhere (restaurant, someone else's home), I usually add milk.
So, as a coffee lover, I say drink it any way you damn well please.
lol, it's an acquired taste. Much healthier than loading it with a bunch of sugars and sweeteners. It also helps to find the right blend that works for you.
But the kind of coffee makes a lot of difference: espresso? drip coffee? A black espresso from a good place tastes great. But it's definitely an acquired taste.
I'm going to get uppity & Biblical about this! ☺️
Always seem to have black when I make it at home, but if it's made by a barista when I'm out, I don't mind the milk.
I think it's whatever suits your palette. ☕Black coffee will wake you up SO FAST!! 😂💨
I couldn’t make myself drink black coffee until I spent a severely jet lagged week working weird hours to cover a space mission in Germany and there was only powdered chemical creamer. That stuff is even worse. So I learned to do shots of strong espresso. Still don’t love it, but when in need…
Then I am a freak. I drink my tea black, strong and full flavoured. Brewed in a ceramic pot, loose leaf in a filter. No sugar. No extra liquids. Like Picard. 😉😜 ❤️
I *always* need sugar. Some kind of liquid cow squeezing preferred; not quite all the way to "light and sweet" - that's dessert for breakfast and a "sometimes food."
Also: a lemon wedge (no milk); turns it into Angry Tea (and confuses waitstaff)
Just curious, where do you get your beans? Coffee is incredibly diverse and flavorful, so black coffee could either be the greatest thing ever or the worst
I like black coffee but it's all about the grounds. Nothing beats freshly ground coffee imo. But instant coffee is gross, no matter what creamer goes into it lol
I'm not much of a coffee guy but the ONLY coffee I can willingly drink black is really expensive/fancy Ethiopian/Columbian coffee. It's still an acquired taste but it actually tastes like coffee instead of dirt water with earwax
I'm a milk in coffee guy too 9/10 times. Quite a big part of it is just to cool it down so my ADHD ass doesn't scald himself, but most black coffee is also just atrocious.
If you want to shell out stupid money for the 'good' stuff, then I'll drink that black, but supermarket coffee gets the milk.
Try it again when you're 50. I was able to get it down to 1/4 tsp sugar and 1/4 cup milk in a 16 oz cup around 40, but just *could not* get to black. IDK why but suddenly at 50, it was fine without them. I'm assuming age related deterioration of my tastebuds and I can't taste the bad part anymore?
Okay question for the others who can/like drinking black coffee: do certain vegetables taste super bitter and gross to you? I can guzzle black coffee but peas/green beans/broccoli trigger immediate gag reflex. Wonder if there's some correlation
My spouse drinks espresso, with just a bit of cream, and it always looks so tasty with the caramel colored creaminess on top, which is just camouflage for hot poison water.
In my honest opinion there is only one reason to drink black coffee, and that is the higher caffeine content due to it being 100% coffee.
I honestly think adding stuff is better, because it makes the drink taste better and more nutritious.
Adding stuff to coffee is also a healthier boost of energy.
I find the taste acquired like how I learned to like beer when I was younger - tasted like shit at first and then the palate developed
I now time to time make Turkish coffee that tastes all right as far as inauthentic Turkish coffee goes, plus it's real strong so if you hate it you don't need much
I drank it in the field while I was in the Army too. Ate lots of stuff out of cans too. It was great then, doesn't mean I'm going to voluntarily stock that stuff at home
It sounds like you're just too unsophisticated to taste the bottom notes of corpuscular bitumen aged for five decades in an argyle barrel in the Appalachian Mountains in the smokehouse of Orkney Bill. Or the tang of acidic cardiomyopathy-spiced sprigs of heamorrhagic tar from a haunted linen sack.
It’s easier to taste rancidity than it is to taste coffee’s better attributes; this is advice about how to avoid the former so you can get to the latter. But if it’s not for you, great. It’s going extinct anyway.
I drink my coffee black because of childhood trauma that made me anxious that I couldn't expect nice things like sugar and cream and it would be dangerous to get used to them when I am probably going to end up in prison for a crime I didn't commit. But I would never recommend it to anyone else.
No matter what kind of spice i throw in my espresso and coffee, it’ll always be a sour bitch to drink. It’s just a different taste that keep I loving it.
I'm gonna counter that advice by pulling way harder in the other direction with:
ever tried eggnog in your coffee? Use it like creamer. If you have a steamer, that's even better, but not necessary. It makes coffee fun during the holidays!
There's even oatmilk nogs this year! Like, there's been this gradual drip-then-flood of oatmilk for (some reason?), but this year I can confirm there's multiple quite good Nogs that are oat based.
We've had a few soy and so on options before, but usually a bit. Eh. So that's neat!
I've had people try to teach me "how to drink coffee". It drives me nuts. I've been drinking this stuff since I was a kid, & I'm 64 now, I think I know damn well how I like my coffee, & that's with a little bit of sugar and a little half & half or cream.
One of my persistent frustrations with literal matters of taste is that people will insist that there are objective truths instead of acknowledging that, like...physically, everyone has different taste buds. Chill out!
"Starbucks coffee is BAD!" Just say you don't like it! It's fine!
It’s a quality issue. Regular commodity coffee sucks because it’s low quality & roasted to shit.
Speciality coffee, like any agricultural product (wine, fruit, chocolate) is much more palatable & nuanced in its basic form when it has been grown & produced on a quality-focused, hand-made level
yeah it is unfortunately something analogous to thinking all beef tastes awful because you don't like a cold, day-old mcdonalds burger patty.
commodity coffee is literally awful to look at, moldy, bug infested, defective, and only works when you roast the shit out of it to hide those off flavors
As someone who hates the taste of black coffee and always put sugar, milk and chocolate in it... The best coffee I ever had was black, at a random party. I lack the instruments and skills to replicate it though...
As someone who drinks it full range with and without creamers and sweeteners, the coffee origin and roast style (and probably prep method) change the flavors - so try something new and adulterate (cream/sugar) if needed. Adulterating varies by mood, quality/style of the coffee, and temperature.
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And yes, I do. I am not a Republican
"Ask your mom"
if I described my "coffee" here they would beat me with sticks
Like when I was a barista I would grind the stuff. First thing I’d do is brew a triple shot & knock it back like a whisky at 4:30 am followed by a glass of water. Awful but got me thru a shift. Now I drink it like a customer. 😂
I don't need to hear from some American drinking slop about how much they like their "mud".
millennials are attentive lovers, what's your excuse
And, I guess because it’s in keeping with the thread, I prefer coffee black. So I guess I’m just playing to the stereotype.
I am all about optics , because many other interactions with me are "this dude is like 12yr old".
I think their point was "Satan exists, who else could make coffee that awful?"
Me: "Coffee."
Black coffee? Great!
With cream? Also great!
Fancy sweet cream in cold brew? Amazingly great!
The worst, rotgut diner coffee? Bring it!
Instant coffee, crystals too? I'm in!
Straight shots of espresso? Hell yeah!
Boozy coffee drinks? Amazing!
Oh, and espresso drinks, but that's totally different from coffee.
Because I don't think so.
(But coffee or chocolate in curry is supposed to be good.)
geez, people seem a little steamed by that pun, Will
Lower insurance premiums too.
That's my position per my learnings don't at me
Apparently that means I'm a psychopath or something \o/
Why couldn't they have gone with ‘research’ instead of ‘studies’ for that acronym
That works too.
To each their own
Be a coffee user, not a coffee drinker
An old union steward taught me that with the rot-gut shop floor coffee. "Learn to drink this shit black, and you'll be able to drink the coffee anywhere you go."
And he was right. 😉
My Dad always had his coffee black, but would then add an ice cube or 2, which diluted it but cooled it enough he could drink it.
And I can drink gas station coffee at 2am in the middle of nowhere when emergency dispatched to fix stuff.
coffee tastes like ass
Every other combination ❌
Why yes I do listen to Tool, why do you ask?
But I've also now taken to drinking Japanese instant coffee and it's my favorite.
https://www.japanesegreenteashops.com/products/ucc-craftsmans-rich-blend-instant-coffee-90-grams-jar
I usually do 1 heaping teaspoon and dissolve it in a small amount of room temp before putting in hot water.
7 grams per 4 oz of water
Pour over ( V Cone )
Dig a little divot in the middle
Do one big circle made of little circles
Let it bloom (wait 30 seconds)
Swirl it
Do another circle of little circles until out of water
Swirl it
Now you’ve made palatable ass
Bad coffee has nothing to hide behind when drunk black, good coffee is delicious.
Of course, if one doesn't enjoy coffee, drinking it black will not be enjoyable.🤷♂️That doesn't seem controversial?
It really needs to be good coffee. Helps with a pinch of salt when brewing too.
Go to local roasters and do tastings instead. Don't force yourself to like it, find one you already like
Or don’t, and drink your coffee the way you already like it. Why would I care?
So, as a coffee lover, I say drink it any way you damn well please.
It was some fancy special process low acid coffee.
But I’m happy to only drink coffee if there’s milk or cream available. I’m fine with tea or water instead.
Always seem to have black when I make it at home, but if it's made by a barista when I'm out, I don't mind the milk.
I think it's whatever suits your palette. ☕Black coffee will wake you up SO FAST!! 😂💨
I hope the original author of the post knows what he has done. 💡
"Acquired tastes. Why bother acquiring them when you can drink something tasty right now?"
I'd prefer black tea over black coffee any day of the week though. The blacker the tea, the closer I am to the light of Allah
masala chai is conventionally made with quite a lot of both dairy and sugar
Also: a lemon wedge (no milk); turns it into Angry Tea (and confuses waitstaff)
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I still adulterate mine.. sometimes ice, sometimes water, sometimes zero sugar creamers if I want to get fancy.
Where do y'all get your experiences?
I couldn’t agree with you more! I like cream and brown sugar in mine. ☕️
It’s still bitter, but it’s much more smooth
This thread.
If you want to shell out stupid money for the 'good' stuff, then I'll drink that black, but supermarket coffee gets the milk.
Don’t tell Captain Janeway I said anything
Like...
Not even "Oh, grind the beans yourself, so they're fresh!"
"Use a pour over/frenchpress/percolater!"
"It needs xyz specific temperature!"
???
There's gotta be Genuine ways to make black coffee actually palatable. 🤨
is what I'd say if I drank coffee or ate ass
Green tea on the other hand...
Favorite Cocktail:
https://imbibemagazine.com/recipe/recipe-trident/
I honestly think adding stuff is better, because it makes the drink taste better and more nutritious.
Adding stuff to coffee is also a healthier boost of energy.
I now time to time make Turkish coffee that tastes all right as far as inauthentic Turkish coffee goes, plus it's real strong so if you hate it you don't need much
More for me.
https://www.shannonleowheeler.com/tmcm/
drink it different!
Like, I get it! They enjoy drinking charred battery acid. Good for them!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_luwak
I don't know why i torture myself so, and were i to seek professional help this would surely be the most vexing question in need of an answer.
I’m starting to drink tea now, but only the fruity or sweet ones.
Also black coffee
Yeah. I’d probably get used to punches in the stomach too, eventually, overtime.
But I don’t want to.
ever tried eggnog in your coffee? Use it like creamer. If you have a steamer, that's even better, but not necessary. It makes coffee fun during the holidays!
We've had a few soy and so on options before, but usually a bit. Eh. So that's neat!
(perfect use for eggnog)
This isn't a moral or ethical failing, ffs.
"Starbucks coffee is BAD!" Just say you don't like it! It's fine!
Speciality coffee, like any agricultural product (wine, fruit, chocolate) is much more palatable & nuanced in its basic form when it has been grown & produced on a quality-focused, hand-made level
commodity coffee is literally awful to look at, moldy, bug infested, defective, and only works when you roast the shit out of it to hide those off flavors
I'll keep adding milk and sugar to my coffee until the day I die on this hill.
I love coffee, but even I put creamer in mine. It just tastes better.