Favorite Brands of Coffee

Okay. I’ve asked this kind of question before, but I rarely get enough responses (except the time I asked about Salads, you guys really liked that one for some reason)…

So… Top five coffee brands. Can be store or canned or whatever. Basically if you’re picking your coffee, who makes it?

Here’s mine:

1. Starbucks (Store or homebrew)
2. Melitta (Canned, homebrew)
3. Green Mountain (Store)
4. Dunkin Donuts (Store or homebrew)
5. Stew Leonard’s (Local dairy company that has amazing fresh-ground coffee)

Oh, and before you ask, yes I’ve started drinking coffee again. :-)

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  • Kricket

    Well, my mother-in-law is from Germany and sends me pounds of German coffee every few months. I couldn’t tell you what brand it is cause I can’t read German. And since my stepfather is a missionary to Niceraqua, he goes there every 6 months and comes back with 25 pounds of coffee beans, of which he mails me about 10 pounds so that I can grind them for myself.

    When I’m not drinking those, I usually stick with Folger’s classic or Starbucks. :)

  • http://www.linoge.net/weblog/ Linoge

    Coffee? *gags* It is all about tea!

  • http://www.insignificantthoughts.com Vinny

    Tea?

    Bleargh!

  • http://www.robertkbrown.com/ RKB

    1. Starbucks
    2. Caribou Coffee
    3. Dunn Bros
    4. Batdorf & Bronson
    5. Torrefazione

    If we were still living in the Northwest, the bottom two would move to the top — they’re not as easy to get in Minnesota, so they’re much lower on the list.

  • http://www.hauntedparsonage.us/blog/ Chuck

    In no particular order:

    1 – Cool Beans (usually in convenience stores, though you can buy it ground or whole by the bag)
    2 – Paul deLima – local roaster/vendor
    3 – Green Mountain
    4 – Newman’s Own – yes, Paul Newman has an organic coffee line
    5 – I think it was called Market Square, or somethling like that. My son brought home a bag of it from Boston, and he’d been told he could only get it there.

    Tea:

    1 – Celestial Seasonings – pretty much any of their varieties, regular or hebal. Morning Thunder got me through many all-nighters in college and at GE. Only disappointment they have is their Earl Grey.
    2 – Twinings – the best Earl Grey, period
    3 – Tetley – best of the big brands.

    -cjb-

  • http://www.insignificantthoughts.com Vinny

    No one has mentioned Lemon Zinger tea.

    Thankfully. I’m so sick of hearing about it. :-)

    But then again, tea is frigging disgusting anyway.

  • http://turningwheels.blogspot.com nathalie

    any coffee as long as it’s totally diluted with milk and sweet stuff, preferably vanilla or caramel. Add whipped cream on top. Oh, and make it iced.

    Can you tell I’m not a coffee drinker? :razz:

    But I love tea. (I know, I know… this isn’t about tea)
    :-)

  • trish

    Kona coffee from Hawaii. Freshly ground beans brewed in a french press. Mmmmm.

  • http://www.hauntedparsonage.us/blog/ Chuck

    Now when it comes to brewing the coffee, we gots it good at the Haunted Parsonage!

    A few years back, my wife spotted a little European SAntos stove-top coffee maker in a catalog that looked interesting – it used a vacuum brewing system that forces the water into an upper globe, then draws it beack down through the coffee and filter by the vacuum created in the lower globe. It was nice, but too small for the three of us. (my wife, my sopn and myself, all with double-sized mugs)

    Then we found an electric version – set us back about $140, but it was worth it. We’ve never had a bad cup of coffee out of this machine, and it can even make de-caff taste decent! :shock: You can find it now for about $100 at http://www.coffee-makers-espresso-machines.com

    Black and Decker came out with one, also, which we bought to replace the Santos electric when the heating coil went bad – it was about $70 when I bought it two years ago. Alas, it appears that it has been discontinued by B&D.

    I also like the Keurig sing-cup system we have at work – the “pods” are about 50 cents each when you buy them by the case, but it makes good coffee, is simple to use, and low maintenance.

    -cjb-

  • Kricket

    Well, my mother-in-law is from Germany and sends me pounds of German coffee every few months. I couldn’t tell you what brand it is cause I can’t read German. And since my stepfather is a missionary to Niceraqua, he goes there every 6 months and comes back with 25 pounds of coffee beans, of which he mails me about 10 pounds so that I can grind them for myself.

    When I’m not drinking those, I usually stick with Folger’s classic or Starbucks. :)

  • http://www.linoge.net/weblog/ Linoge

    Coffee? *gags* It is all about tea!

  • http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/ Vinny

    Tea?

    Bleargh!

  • http://www.robertkbrown.com/ RKB

    1. Starbucks
    2. Caribou Coffee
    3. Dunn Bros
    4. Batdorf & Bronson
    5. Torrefazione

    If we were still living in the Northwest, the bottom two would move to the top — they’re not as easy to get in Minnesota, so they’re much lower on the list.

  • http://www.hauntedparsonage.us/blog/ Chuck

    In no particular order:

    1 – Cool Beans (usually in convenience stores, though you can buy it ground or whole by the bag)
    2 – Paul deLima – local roaster/vendor
    3 – Green Mountain
    4 – Newman’s Own – yes, Paul Newman has an organic coffee line
    5 – I think it was called Market Square, or somethling like that. My son brought home a bag of it from Boston, and he’d been told he could only get it there.

    Tea:

    1 – Celestial Seasonings – pretty much any of their varieties, regular or hebal. Morning Thunder got me through many all-nighters in college and at GE. Only disappointment they have is their Earl Grey.
    2 – Twinings – the best Earl Grey, period
    3 – Tetley – best of the big brands.

    -cjb-

  • http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/ Vinny

    No one has mentioned Lemon Zinger tea.

    Thankfully. I’m so sick of hearing about it. :-)

    But then again, tea is frigging disgusting anyway.

  • http://turningwheels.blogspot.com/ nathalie

    any coffee as long as it’s totally diluted with milk and sweet stuff, preferably vanilla or caramel. Add whipped cream on top. Oh, and make it iced.

    Can you tell I’m not a coffee drinker? :razz:

    But I love tea. (I know, I know… this isn’t about tea)
    :-)

  • trish

    Kona coffee from Hawaii. Freshly ground beans brewed in a french press. Mmmmm.

  • http://www.hauntedparsonage.us/blog/ Chuck

    Now when it comes to brewing the coffee, we gots it good at the Haunted Parsonage!

    A few years back, my wife spotted a little European SAntos stove-top coffee maker in a catalog that looked interesting – it used a vacuum brewing system that forces the water into an upper globe, then draws it beack down through the coffee and filter by the vacuum created in the lower globe. It was nice, but too small for the three of us. (my wife, my sopn and myself, all with double-sized mugs)

    Then we found an electric version – set us back about $140, but it was worth it. We’ve never had a bad cup of coffee out of this machine, and it can even make de-caff taste decent! :shock: You can find it now for about $100 at http://www.coffee-makers-espresso-machines.com

    Black and Decker came out with one, also, which we bought to replace the Santos electric when the heating coil went bad – it was about $70 when I bought it two years ago. Alas, it appears that it has been discontinued by B&D.

    I also like the Keurig sing-cup system we have at work – the “pods” are about 50 cents each when you buy them by the case, but it makes good coffee, is simple to use, and low maintenance.

    -cjb-

  • http://www.hevlacoffeeco.com/ Low Acid Coffee

    You should also include the coffee brand of McDonals and Hevla coffee. They are also one of the best coffee brands that I've tasted aside from the one's stated above.