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Dev · Joined: 18 Apr 2006

Being a coffee lover myself, I have long wanted to try the prohibitively expensive Blue Mountain coffee.

Years of wondering have been biting at me, I finally gave in and bought 200 grams of Jamaican Blue Mountain from one of the big coffee companies in Japan.

Wah! What a let down! Mediocre at best. Please don't bother with it.

For a good all around taste, I recommend Columbian.

What kind of coffee do you like best?

tzechuk · Joined: 20 Dec 2004

I thought you were going to tell us that it was cancer inducing and would kill you if you drank the stuff......

What a disappointment.

the eye · Joined: 29 Jan 2004

note to self: don't open Dev's threads.

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

Paging Miss Jaderedux.

Columbian, Brazillian, Italian Roast, French Roast -- I like all kinds, Dev. In any form, too. Hell, I'm freebasing Taster's Choice right this very moment.

Ginormousaurus · Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Location: 700 Ft. Pulpit

Do you ever stop complaining?

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

Indeed. I used to work for a Second Cup and had many opportunties to sample Jamaican Blue Mountain, it's less expensive brother Jamaican High Mountain, and Kona. Blue Mountain was nothing to write home about. It's expensive because of limited supply. One mountain's worth. Conspicuous consumption keeps people buying and drinking. The less expensive High Mountain I found a better cuppa joe. I've never noted anything good about Kona to warrant the price either.

Back in the day when coffees were almost exclusively marketed by region, I used to enjoy Costa Rican and Guatemalan. Mexican was good but hard to find. But I liked a milder cup.

Bondrock · Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Location: ^_^

i once visited the hoover dam... as the guide took us down in the elevator he said "this elevator was built by Maxwell House"

good to the last drop

SuperHero · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Location: Superhero Hideout

I prefer Ethiopian coffee.

Novernae · Joined: 02 Mar 2005

The whole JBM crop was crap this year. Lots of lost money...none of the specialty roasters bought any. Kona was no better, although there were a couple good ones to come out.

Like someone else said, there're lots of other coffees that are better than JBM, even when it is a good year.

bixlerscott · Joined: 27 Sep 2006 Location: Near Wonju, South Korea

I like that Hikoca Columbian Supremo in a 7 ounce sea green colored bag at HomePlus for 8900 Won. I tried everything else and its crap, even coffee shops trying to be a knockoff of Starbucks are serving tasteless swill. Like the rediculously limited supply of meats, coffee is very expensive (20,000 won per pound!). While most coffees in Korea lack quality despite high prices, I find the Hikoca to have rich flavor and good overall quality without being no more pricier than the crap coffees (alot of it is very old). I heard about that there is Kaldi's coffee available in Seoul which is what I drank at home and is the best I have ever had. Kaldi's is only $9 a pound at home while Starbucks was $7 a pound which your looking at coffee costing a whopping 2x to 3x more than in the USA.

Dev · Joined: 18 Apr 2006

Hollywoodaction · Joined: 02 Jul 2004

I roast my own. I concur, Ethiopian coffee is high up there on my list of coffees, excellent aroma, tastes great, and is very affordable. Kenyan is great if you roast it just right, but it's hardly worth the 5000won more a kg from the Ethiopian.

JeJuJitsu · Joined: 11 Sep 2005 Location: McDonald's

discostar23 · Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Location: getting the hell out of dodge

i recommend an italian roast coffee. Really I don't use drip coffee, espresso girl myself (illy all the way!)

Sine qua non · Joined: 18 Feb 2007

French press brewed coffee used to be my favorite, until I tried something new.

My sister gave me some coffee ground too fine for the French press. So I went ahead and brewed it in the French press anyway, but then poured the brewed mix through a coffee filter into a cup (one of those plastic, one-cup coffee filter things you set over the cup and let drip directly into the cup). It was strong. So I made it even stronger. Now I use espresso grind coffee in this same way. It's the strongest brew I've ever had (and I've had 'em all).

By the way, with regards to the poll, I prefer the central American coffees, particularly Mexican, Costa Rican and Gutamalan (and Peruvian, as well) . But I'll probably be sold on the Rwandan at Starbuck's for as long as they have it. The Rwandan people have had some hard times in the recent past. Did anyone else see Hotel Rwanda with Don Cheadle?