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Let me give then the coffee usually drunk by Greeks, which is different from Greek Coffee (or Turkish, depending on which country you are).

This is an iced coffee, also called Φραπέ or Φραπές, from the french verb Frapper, which means to beat/shake.

A teaspoon (or more, depending on taste) of coffee, preferrably Nescafe or equivalent instant coffee, sugar to taste, and a little bit of water in a shaker. Shake it (or stir it) until it's mixed well, then add lots of ice cubes, milk to taste, and complete with cold water. Add a straw to it, and you have a good cold coffee to drink for an hour or two, while you are either doing your work, or just relaxing. A glass of water is also recommended, as with most coffees.
Be aware that this is usually drunk in the areas that the temperature is rarely below 20 Celsius, so I wouldn't suggest it for the colder countries.
Nothing special. I make drip coffee in a Moccamaster (basically, a rather expensive but almost certainly bombproof coffee maker); light-roasted arabica most of the time, since that's what we have available in abundance, although darker sorts are increasingly common. I just buy the coffee ready-ground in those plastic packages, shove it in a filter paper and get on with it. I do appreciate more complex coffees, but frankly I'm just too lazy to make them myself. So lazy, in fact, that I often resort to Nescafé as well. Yes, its taste is clearly inferior, but I can't be bothered to go through the filter-powder-dishwashing charade every time I want my dose of caffeine. Speaking of which, I've tried caffeine pills for the convenience as well, but they don't seem to work.
I just swallow three spoons of grinded coffee and gargle it away with two cups of hot water. ^^
I make my coffee with pot... wait, I mean, IN a pot.
My $10 coffeemaker (standard drip-style "Mr. Coffee" clone) gets used about 2-4 times a year, when coffee-drinking relatives visit. Add filter in basket, add vacuum-packed standard commercial coffee blend. My elderly relatives aren't coffee snobs, so long as it's not too weak, hasn't been sitting all day, and isn't instant, they're fine with it.

My husband hates coffee, period. I can just about stand it with lots of milk and sugar, which is very bad for my waistline, so I avoid it (I do like some coffee-flavored desserts, however). We get our caffeine from iced or hot tea, hot chocolate, and soda at my house.
I usually drink chili coffee. A cup of hot coffee (instant or brew) while eating something chili or hot.
I LOVE coffee and have two decent sized cups in the morning, afternoon and sometimes after dinner. Then I wonder why I have trouble falling asleep. Rather than give up the coffee, I got my doctor to order Trazadone to help me sleep. lol

About 10 years ago now I invested in a Cuisinart coffee brewer (drip model) which filters the water and has a gold tone filter so I don't need to buy paper ones although sometimes I do out of laziness (can just toss those as opposed to rinsing the fancy one). This machine makes great coffee. Whenever it breaks, I will buy another one. I noticed recently they still sell the same exact model.

I love Starbucks Breakfast Blend but only treat myself to that rarely where it is expensive. For a little less, I am very happy also with assorted Green Mountain Coffees (the company is in Vermont, USA), otherwise, buying bags of Dunkin Donuts ground coffee locally also works. It is pretty good stuff too. When I need to be cheap I settle for Maxwell House also in part because the little convenience store downtown carries it but really I find it terrible compared to the others listed above. I will probably be sticking to at least Dunkins from now on and ordering from Green Mountain sometimes and once in a while getting Starbucks at the grocery store.

I'm having a fresh cup right now! I love to come visit the GOG forums with morning coffee each day. :D
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Aningan: I know GOG has members from all over the world and I was curious of how coffee is brewed in different parts of the world. Of course I don't mean using an espresso machine.

I know in some parts even the material from which the kettle is made is important. So, how do you make your coffee? What blends/brands do you use?
I buy beans from Costplus World Market, there may be better beans but I prefer lighter roasts which are rare in America and the aforementioned beans have a variety of good Italian and French roasts which are lighter and very affordable.

- I have a drip pot, Cuisinart DCC 1200, that's what I use at home on a normal day.
- I hate the drip pot at work (it's industrial sized and no amount of cleaning I've done has made that coffee not taste like total ass) so I have I have a Bodum French Press for use there. Sometimes I use the Bodum at home, it makes a fresher tasting cup.
- I have a vacuum press as well, mine runs on butane fuel which burns at a better temp than alcohol fuel. Luckily all smoke shops around these parts sell butane for cheap. This is the "funnest" way to make coffee and makes the cleanest cup, but it's kind of a Saturday morning kind of thing because it doesn't make much in one go.

Finally, I'd love to get an Ibrik to make Turkish/Greek style coffee. I'd probably get some of those little cups for it too:)

I have two grinders: a blade grinder, I use this for anything but the vacuum press, and a cheap burr grinder (with plastic burrs and a plastic catch basin). If I ever get a really nice burr grinder I'll probably relegate the blade grinder to herbs.

I drink my coffee black, so the flavor matters a lot to me.
Post edited December 17, 2012 by orcishgamer
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orcishgamer: Finally, I'd love to get an Ibrik to make Turkish/Greek style coffee. I'd probably get some of those little cups for it too:)
Yeah, I'm very curious about how they make coffee. In my country many still make coffee in a Ibrik ('Ibric' is the romanian word) but the method it varies from family to family. The ibrik must be made of brass! The material doesn't matter! Let the water boil! Don't let it boil! Add coffee when the water boils! Add it before! Stir x number of times and it's done! Don't stir at all! Etc.

It's interesting.
I only use a Bodum, french press and have a not hot cup or two each morning. If I brew too much, I refrigerate for iced coffee.

I get an organic blend and the store that is Hazelnut/ Vanilla flavored. Costa Rican is great, usually some light/ medium blend. There are many nice micro-roasters near me, which is quite wonderful.
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orcishgamer: Finally, I'd love to get an Ibrik to make Turkish/Greek style coffee. I'd probably get some of those little cups for it too:)
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Aningan: Yeah, I'm very curious about how they make coffee. In my country many still make coffee in a Ibrik ('Ibric' is the romanian word) but the method it varies from family to family. The ibrik must be made of brass! The material doesn't matter! Let the water boil! Don't let it boil! Add coffee when the water boils! Add it before! Stir x number of times and it's done! Don't stir at all! Etc.

It's interesting.
Yeah, when you get into Ibrik people argue, it's tradition more than anything, technically boiling water is a hair too hot for ideal extraction so I'd say that has some possibility of being grounded in reality (you want 200 degrees F according to most). Ibriks are traditionally brass afaik, and that's the kind I'd get just due to that, I'm not sure the heat conductive properties or brass would matter and I'm really not sure you could "taste" it, so yeah, I put less credence in that one.

I just want me some of that muddy coffee it makes, that's all:)
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olanorig: I usually drink chili coffee. A cup of hot coffee (instant or brew) while eating something chili or hot.
Or have Tabasco in the coffee as soon as you wake up in the morning. Instant warm in these cold days (atleast up here in the north) :D
Post edited December 17, 2012 by sanscript
I don't. It's disgusting.Also, I don't do drugs!
Post edited December 17, 2012 by keeveek
Very interesting topic. I find that I like coffee with irish cream. Some people at my office like to drink it black. Im not strong enough for that.
As a java junkie and as an American I'd like to be the 1st to admit that our coffee is something most Europeans say is just like 'sex in a canoe'.
"It's fu%&ing close to water."

I stole that form Monty Python so don't quote me on it.