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Originally Posted by xg4bx
Coffee being one of my true loves in life, I decided to grind my own. The bland, flavorless brew sold in cans was starting to make me nauseas with its flat taste. No matter what brand I tried it all started tasting bland. Though I will say that organic/fair trade brands are good.
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Dyed in the wool tea aficionados may poo poo coffee as uninteresting, I (as you might guess) find it quite the opposite. But on the other hand, at 60+ I've found the coffees that I like best and usually stick to them.
Back in the mid '60's I could buy
real Mocha coffee beans and
real Java coffee beans.
My mother and I would mix the beans visually at about 60% Mocha and 40% Java, grind them, and drink it black to enjoy the flavor.
I doubt very much that I can get the real beans that we used back then. I recall sometime in the late '80's / early '90's Starbucks was in trouble for selling coffee made from Columbian beans as being Kona coffee.
The head of Starbucks at the time said "Hay, it's good coffee no matter where it came from! When you buy a loaf of "French" bread you don't really think that it came from France, do you?"
In short, what I'm saying is watch out for whatever you buy. And the word "organic" is practically meaningless as a description. I can sell you a cup of motor oil from an oil well and call it "organic". From a biochemist's point of view just about anything that contains carbon is "organic".
In so far as instant coffee goes, I sometimes work all day, and literally, much of the night. Most of the instant coffee I've tried, I've thrown away after tasting once. The only exceptions are Folgers in a coffee bag;
and though I strongly dislike all other Nescafe coffees, I keep this in my service van;
For great coffee try to get the Mocha and Java coffee beans in separate bags, not together already "blended". I would truly love to hear that you found the real beans.
And the real Hawaiian Kona coffee bean, too. Just not from Starbucks.