I'm betting that was not a primo blend you gulped back there in the navy ...... the term coffee can be loosely used as you found out. Try the real stuff, and I'm not talking starbucks.
Roasted Addiqtion

Starbucks does Coffee like McDonalds does Milkshakes. And god do I love em for it.

KIMBO brand Italian espresso made on the stove, in the Bialetti, the way it was intended. :D

I drink at least 3 cups of coffee a day. Morning and night.

My brother literally drinks about 25-30 cups a day. He only drinks coffee or soda. He's crazy.

if you do, can we call you "grimesy"

I used to be horribly addicted to Soda. A 2 liter a day, at least.

Thank the holy Penguin I'm over that one.

When I was in high school, I knew someone who drank nothing but soft drinks... Coca Cola specifically. He was like that guy in Unbreakable, he was always breaking bones from falling.

i recently had a prostate infection which (aside from killing my cycling for the past 2 months or so) got me off cokes completely.. im a gatorade ***** now. :\

i can ride without breakfast, but not without coffee

Memories-
When I was a kid in the mid 70's we would go to my grandmothers every sunday for pasta and
more food than we could usually eat...(but somehow managed anyway) Right after dinner, she would make the demitasse "Medaglia D'Oro Espresso" I can never forget the Red/White/Green can. Mmm...it smelled so good! I was drinking espresso at 10...and then began to learn how to make it, not that it was that difficult back then. The silver metal pot was in two parts, the water on the bottom, and the espresso on top in the metal basket, no filter..just low heat to a boil and let it perculate for a about 5 minutes and done.

If we were 'good' :) on that particular day...perhaps it was how many glasses of wine the adults had...
us kids would even get a shot of Galliano or Sambuca in our espresso!
Ahhh the good 'ol days of youth, and being spoiled by Grandma.

Oh, by the way my favorites are Meinl Jubilee whole bean, it is an excellent blend from Austria. Helmut Sachers, also from Ostereich and Dean & Deluca Ethiopian Yirgacheffe.

I actually am not too fond of any Starbucks blends, except Breakfast. They tend to be a bit on the bitter side imho...

'Nother coffee snob here. Ex girlfriend got me into it. If given the choice, I only brew from fresh ground beans, primarily --KONA-- . Kona is my staple.

I'm 31, and avoided coffee for most of my life, but now it's become a common drink. I really don't want it to be a habit, because that would take the fun out of it.

Peculiar quirk of mine. I drink with plenty of cream and sweetener. I firmly believe that, like chocolate, coffee was meant to be made with plenty of sugar and fat. My preference is whipping cream, with 1 Splenda per cup. Sweet n Low is too sweet, but all artificial sweeteners work better than sugar.

Maybe he drank too much RC? Or even Shasta?

I wanna pop... I wanna... Shasta! :D

Koffee

No coffee for me

Addicted. Seriously. Peet's. Major Dickason's Blend.

MUST...... HAVE .......MOCHA!!!! :love:

i love coffee...have a local coffee house that roasts their own beans to perfection.

i also have to stay up all night alot...i would not survive without caffeine

i did not start drinking coffee until i was in my thirties...if i still drank moutnain dew as my caffeine source... i would weigh 300lbs

Yeah, hopelessly addicted here. I grind beans and start the coffee long before I could even dream of remembering my own name or tying my shoes in the morning.

You know, next to OIL, Coffee is the 2nd most traded commodity in the world.

Most of the Coffee beans in South America came from 1 single bean stolen from Louis XVI's coffee plant on his estate. They were stolen by Gabriel de Clieu, a French naval officer, who then returned to Martinique and developed the seeds into a coffee plantation.

God Bless him for it. :D

I was thinking of getting that espresso pot, the Bialetti, they sell it at Target methinks... so do you recommend it??

I looked into some other ones, If I could afford I'd get the SAECO espresso maker (yeah... that Saeco)... but they are freaking around $500!

I can't afford more than $100.00 and most espresso makers in that price range look like crap (like they'll fall apart easily).

And now that caffeine has been taken off the list, we can have coffee in our drinking bottles without facing this risk:
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/sp...icle549909.ece
Erling.

Oh yeah I'm a coffee hound ..... bought a new bike last night (tuesday night) and celebrated with a latte at yeah, you guessed it, Starhuck's on the way home...... rode said new bike to the Mountain View and back today, and had a coffee at that cool coffee shop on Dana st.

I like the coffee at independent coffee shops, Bean Scene, Dana St. etc., but starbucks has it's place in the scheme of things ...... if nothing else it's a good place to meet ppl to buy or sell stuff!

Now, here's how to make some GOOD coffee: Get a small cheapo saucepan, and get one of those big mugs like they sell at Staryucks but they sell a lot of other places. Fill that to the brim with water and dump in saucepan. Boil the water and when it's boiling throw in a tablespoon of ground coffee, use that "French Market" stuff they use to make vietnamese coffee. Let it boil for 30 sec or maybe a bit less, just a bit you know? Then pour it throug a strainer, NOT a coffee filter, a STRAINER you've set on top of your mug, you'll get an almost full mug of Excellent coffee! Plus a lot of silt on the bottom, don't drink that.

I know that caffeine seriously effects the way my heart operates. It does terrible things to the way it beats and I wouldn't be surprised if many of our fellow cyclists who push themselves well beyond normal limits, suffer similarly but are not aware that caffeine may be the culprit.
As no studies have been done that I know of, to assess the long term effects of caffeine consumption in athletes, I'm taking what I believe to be the prudent path and limiting my intake substantially. I mostly drink de-caf now and I've never felt better in my life.

Oh man - you just killed this thread :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(