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.
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
coffee tastes good, why would i adulterate it with sugar? i've always been an espresso drinker since i got into coffee
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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…
The slope is slippery and expensive. It all started when someone bought me this new fangled thing called an "Aeropress"...
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
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sorry you're cringe and a class traitor, drip coffee fucking rocks
Drip coffee is the moderate wing of nestle international roast
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.
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.)
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.
I had an internship in an automotive garage. It was either black coffee or that crappy powdered creamer.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
