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My mom always took her coffee black, so did my grandma, so I think it imparted onto me. For me I like the bitterness, when I take a sip of my morning coffee and it hits there's nothing like it.

Over the years I've tried to get into sugared coffees and I still keep coming back to black. Although every now and then iced coffee with creamer and sugar is a good treat.

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I like black coffee for the rich flavor and appreciate the bitterness as an aspect of it. I also like IPAs for the same reason. yeah I'm that guy

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

coffee tastes good, why would i adulterate it with sugar? i've always been an espresso drinker since i got into coffee

Death to America

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Creamer was another expense when I was in college, and I kinda wanted to see if I could “make” myself like it. And now I have my scale, burr grinder, pour over, local beans…

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The slope is slippery and expensive. It all started when someone bought me this new fangled thing called an "Aeropress"...

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I'm lazy as fuck

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Actually good coffee. Drank the cheapest and nastiest coffee, had to use sugar and salt to make it palatable. When i first visited Cuba, i got a coffee not long after i got off the plane. The difference is night and day. Also, instead of energy drinks, i just had a shot of nasty espressor and a cold bottle of water to wake me up on the night shifts.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I ran out of creamer and sugar one time at the same time and tried my coffee plain. I think it was Guatemalan beans and I remember making it slightly stronger than usual then tasting it and saying "damn this is actually pretty fruity tasting" and enjoying it.

I personally enjoy more earthy and richer flavors like Sumatran though so I mainly stick with that as I'm able to.

Also making your coffee with anything other than a proletarian drip coffee maker is bourgeois decadence

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Drip coffee fucking sucks I'm sorry

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I had an internship in an automotive garage. It was either black coffee or that crappy powdered creamer.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

With the right grind and the right water temperature for the right roast, your coffee will have a complex profile. Some varieties can taste sweet, fruity even without adding anything.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'll take it black when I absolutely need an immediate shock to the system. Black coffee helped me write some of my best English 100 essays; especially after one of them saw LibreOffice throw an unexpected crash and lose me eight pages worth of draft work. (That one's 98% on me, though. I was slipping on my ctrl-s frequency that day and I paid for it.)

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

espresso good

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I just got tired of super sweet coffees that tasted more like candy than coffee. These days at most I'll put drink it with oatmilk.

Also youtube kept recommending James Hoffman videos so I eventually got surious about how to brew coffee and how differently they taste and I'll try different beans to get new experiences.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Getting a cold brew setup going at home. It's smoother, less acidic, and allows me to appreciate the different properties of each roast. Since it makes a concentrate, I can vary the strength as needed.

If I'm having iced coffee, the cold foam stuff on top can be a nice change of pace.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I just finished a good cup and my mouth is unbearably tangy with acidity. I think your comment finally convinced me to buy a setup. I've loved every cold brew I've tasted.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I worked at a few different second and third wave coffee shops. The fancy hipster third wave ones had incredible coffee and espresso from all over the world. Tbh if being a barista paid a decent wage I might still be doing it.

Now that I'm a lot older though coffee makes my lil tumtum hurt though so I don't drink it often

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I used to drink black coffee (the only correct way to drink coffee, fyi). Then I lived in madagascar where they made half their coffee sugar. I couldn't go back. Now I even add milk, like a failure.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

For a time as a high schooler, I wanted to seem more interesting than other people so I drank it black. Honestly I kinda hated it, and went back to drinking it with cream and sugar, but that was more because I was drinking Tim Hortons.

Once my dad started showing me how to make actual good coffee with good beans, I never went back. Even iced coffee I prefer black most of the time.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I appreciate the different flavors black coffee offers. From the different roasts to the various growing locations, each bring their own unique tastes. For hot coffee I prefer a darker roast, and the opposite for iced coffee.

At the same time, I'm a huge sucker for the glorified Hot Chocolate known as a Mocha. What's weird is I never go halfway; I don't like cream or sugar in black coffee.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

When I was much younger I did some summers of manual labor and the crew I worked with had a habit of taking in a mouthful of warm water, a spoonful of instant coffee, then shaking your head vigorously before swallowing. I think that focus on coffee as a caffeine delivery drug stuck with me. I enjoy a good cup of coffee but I will drink just about anything as coffee. If I want something that tastes good I prefer tea.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

creepy

No insult intended to people with the disease, but I saw a friend of mine shoot his thigh with insulin enough times. Like everyone in my family over 40 has diabetes, and I'm just like "nope" to dealing with that.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I used to be a barista. Some rushes were so bad there was no time to drink coffee or eat, so if I accidentally pulled a regular shot instead of decaf, I'd just casually down that mid-rush. Also never liked particularly sweet coffee and I'm lactose-intolerant, so I was destined for this.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I just like it that way

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I was like 13 and I wanted to be more adult. Couldn't finish the first cup, after a week I was able to choke it down, by 2 weeks I thought it was okay, by a month I wouldn't have it any other way.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

back to black

(RIP)

To answer your question, for real: coffee is something I generally drink for caffeine content. Although every now and then, I might put some soy creamer and maple syrup, my main concern isn't taste. Even then, if the coffee is quality, black coffee's taste can still be very pleasing either way.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I drink all sorts of coffees. If I'm stressed, sometimes I'll go for a black coffee or espresso. It helps. IDK why. Same with spice.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I started drinking it at work in high school, the place I worked had a deal with a coffee shop so we got free coffee. I always drank it with cream until I went to university and the first day I woke up and realized I didn't buy any, so I decided to just drink it black and never bought more cream.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I drink it both long black and as a flat white. Black is what I make when it's too cold to steam milk, or when I don't want to have to bear the indignity of paying extra for non-dairy milk.

Good black coffee is great, but bad black coffee is shit water. So if I'm unsure on quality from a place I'll get a flat white or latte.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One day, many years ago, I thought to myself "Hmm, if I'm going to become an adult soon, I aught to acclimate myself to the taste of black coffee" and I did. Many years later and cream and sugar taste off to me. Flavored coffee (as long as its whole bean, grinding my own has been a gamechanger!) and unsweetened flavors are a special treat every once in a while.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

It depends on my mood.

Black coffee when I'm about to start something I enjoy.

Latté when I've just finished something I don't enjoy.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I think sugar tastes bad in coffee and when i first started drinking it at my warehouse job all they had was the powdered "coffee whitener" which tasted so bad. I was trying to wean off energy drinks because I was so fat and drinking at least 2 monsters a day. No caffiene isn't an option

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I started my first cup or coffee black because I didn't want the extra caloric content from sugar + cream/milk and just never stopped drinking it black ever since. I guess it also helped that I got the coffee from a mom and pop coffee shop and not like starbucks.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

"I take coffee like I take my men!"

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Godot from Phoenix Wright: Trails and Tribulations

"Blacker than a moonless night, hotter and more bitter than Hell itself... That is coffee"

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Laziness. I'm just too lazy to put in the cream most of the time and I don't like sugar in my coffee anyway

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I started roasting green coffee myself cause it's cheaper, so I always want to taste it unadulterated to get better and know the important factors in detail. But I also enjoy coffee every other way.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I have experimented with sugar, cream (dairy, soy, almond, coconut, oatmilk), and both combined, but I return to black and have stayed this way for years now. Sugar hurts my teeth, and I am not realy interested in adding calorie dense stuff to my happy juice. And I love the taste of black coffee. It can be shit sometimes, but at it's best it surpasses anything sweeteners or cream can add.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I just had some good black coffee

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

My deep rooted masculine insecurities make me want to take the manliest option

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

When I was in the army I didn't have time to add milk/sugar, nor did I want to use old warm milk from my pocket.

Now I'm a coffee snob and can't drink coffee anywhere but at home.... It's all too weak and watery....

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

no items, espresso only, final destination

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I dont like my coffee sweet, black coffee smells so good anyways.

Though every once in a while (super rare) when I feel like treating myself I will have coffee splashed with a bit of vanilla oat milk.

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