I have a feeling that people who take snuff would also tend to be the same type to appreciate other fine pleasures, including coffee and tea. Being a coffee and tea enthusiast myself(as well as being in the coffee business) I would love to start a discussion on these wonderful comforts, which as everyone knows are at least as varied and complex worlds as that of snuff, with an immeasurably wider audience(for lack of a better word). Myself, I my favourite all around tea is Prince of Wales. I do prefer Chinese black teas in general. I love a good keemun, lapsang souchong, as well as Earl Grey but the last one is, of course, not an all day tea. Begamot is also wonderful in snuff. Coffee is so complex. Always changing, and every misiscule variable has a noticed effect. One farms’ crop can be outstanding in 2009, but in 2010 just not be the same. Then there’s the roast and everything that goes into it. Then once the coffee is roasted it changes over time, even very short periods of time, due to conditions it’s kept in. Day to day, even hour to hour, a coffee is always changing. And of course brewing methods. A barista is always tasting throughout the day, adjusting the grind on the machine, and it is always changing. Humidity, temperature, so many factors, an espresso is always growing. French press is a great style of making coffee. Iraqi coffee is a passion of mine, in which coffee is fermented in green glass bottles, and then this is used as a base for the next pot. Whatever is left after a coffee drinking session is returned to the base, and that goes into the morrow’s pot. It’s like a sourdough starter, always giving an aged sour base to the fresh coffee it’s brewed in. I would like to see who is into coffee and tea on here. It’s my guess there would be many.
I’m enjoying a nice big cup of coffee with my Dholakia Swiss Chocolate. French presses, stove-top espresso makers, drip pots, whatever. It’s all good.
In the mornings, I like Crumbs Of Comfort with my grounded Starbucks.
Eight O’Clock 100% Columbian whole bean, fresh-ground and through the French press (I was savagely vindicated when Consumer Reports found 8O’C to be the Number One and Starbuck’s far down at #11, but that’s just me). Drip coffeemaker when the baby’s keeping me busy and I don’t have time to mind the kettle and press. I have enjoyed Turkish coffee in the traditional style when I could have some, and while I’m not a tea drinker my wife enjoys many teas and also has been known to experiment with making her own herbal blends as well. Currently drinking 8O’C and switching between Swisher Wild Cherry and Göteburg Rapé No. 2 portionsnus…
@matero, you are quite right, I’m a coffee fanatic and I’m talking about COFFEE. Not just any crap. I have a drip coffee machine, which I never use, an espresso machine and a French press which I use all the time. I do drink tea too but I’m not really a tea lover.I like green tea, Earl Grey and Heuningbos maybe once or twice a month. My wife does not drink coffee, only Rooibos tea.
french press even when I’a, drinking the crappy coffee that cost next to nothing. Only way to go with coffee that I know of. Though I don’t love coffee just like it. I have to admit for me coffee is just a drug I don’t drink it often for the taste (I like the taste I do). Now tea I love. Coffee is to me more like a quick bit on your lunch hour, you do want it to be good but your main motivation isn’t the flavor. Where as tea is more gourmet to me. Not say coffee is not capable of the same as I can defintly say there are some wonderfull coffees just stating my opinion.
I drink both tea and coffee, more tea in winter though. I’m not too picky about brands, types and methods but usually stick to Irish premium quality brands like Bewley’s(coffee and tea), Barry’s(tea), Lyons’s(tea) and Robert’s(coffee). All Irish teas and most of coffees are blends with quite distinctive character, which you really miss if you don’t get them. Cheapos like Tetley’s tea are available but those are for fresh immigrants and Brits. Now I have only one type of tea at house, Bewkey’s Gold Blend, a refreshing type of tea made of Kenyan, Assam and Rwuandan leaves and one coffee, Robert’s American roast coffee, which is little too mild for me. For coffee making I use plunger which I suppose is same as ‘French press’.
Right now with teas my big thing has been the olongs I can get cheap. The one is a Tiwainesse greenish olong I’ve dubed 2 seasons since it’s about half as good as the four seasons olong similar in some regaurds kind of subtle floralish hint pretty mild but complex and flavour-full. The other is Tung Ting olong. Pretty standard genericish almost black olong. Good but not particularly unique in anyway. Of course all teas are loose leafs because bags are evil.
As far as coffee, may I suggest intelligentsia, to be found at intelligentsiacoffee.com. Verve, Ritual, Stumptown, there are so many wonderful roasters right now in the US. Out here I just roast my own like I do with everything. Also one of my loves in yerba mate. If anyone hasn’t heard of it yet, it’s a green leaf from south america, filled into a gourd and sipped through a metal pipe fitted with a strainer at one end. It has a whole culture and lore surrounding it, and in many parts of SA it is much more common than coffee. the gourd gets nicely cured and darkened inside after a while, and develops a taste of its’ own. To me, mate and snuff go together, as both were taken by pre-columbian native people in the Americas and sometimes I use the same process on each. I have toasted and ground both mate and tobacco, and even sniffed yerba mate before. It worked, but didn’t clear my nose the way snuff does, which is why I started taking snuff initially. Glad to see there are coffee enthusiasts on board.
I love coffe. I don’t drink it too often but for me it’s almost always simple espresso from my espresso machine. Right now I drink Italian Illy brand and Costa blend, which I sometimes mix what makes them even better. I used to drink Lavazza Espresso/Qualita Rosa as well but they are a bit too sour for my taste. Costa’s blend is I think the best I’ve drank, but I never tried anything but what you can get at a grocery store. I just had a nice cup of espresso with a hint of amaretto liqueur, very good thing. For tea I drink usually green tea or Twinnings Earl Grey. I still have a little bit of cinnamon green tea I bought in Poland, it’s great and I’ll definitely buy some more when I’ll have the occasion. @matero: I’ve read quite a lot about yerba mate, I’d like to try it but I heard that the bagged stuff you can get at a store is nothing compared to leaves prepared in a traditional way, so I think I’ll have to end up with buying guampa and bombilla some day.
I’m a big coffee fan…in the past I’ve enjoyed some great coffees from India, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia and Brasil among others. At home I like the Lavazza Red or Gold. When I’m out I go to Caffe Nero or Costa. Yep, I enjoy taking snuff with coffee. Tea…I couldn’t stand it until I was about 12 and then couldn’t get enough. The only tea I drink at home is Yorkshire Tea which has been my favourite for a long time now. I enjoy good whisky and rum also but don’t do that much for the sake of my liver. I had a fantastic time last week sampling Cuban and Jamaican rums at a tasting night.
I only drink Port City Java coffee in a French Press. It’s great stuff. Tea wise I am down for anything, not really picky. However, I do love this Darjeeling tea that I picked up called Margaret’s Hope.
I love coffee as well, usually Chock-Full-o-Nuts or 8 o’Clock Bean, nothing too fancy I guess, just good and strong. I’m not too big in tea. I made some Catnip tea years ago but didn’t get the results I was after.
I’m not really into coffee or tea. I’m not really very choosy, something like Nescafe or Kenco for coffee and PG Tips or Tetley for tea, I like herbal teas though camomile and peppermint being my favourites. Stefan
Yorkshire tea, by the pint, all day long, supplemented by lots of SP and Fubar.
I agree bob. Tea bags are evil. Enjoying Harney & Sons Palm Court Blend at the moment.
To say that you like Starbucks is a confession of guilt. As far as American brands, give me MJB in a French Press. Cold brewed coffee is also outstanding. European coffee’s I think are wonderful, too.
Was a coffee fiend for years. My favourite was Kenya AA done campfire style or drip a la Melitta. Last few months though I’ve been on a tea kick as the coffee was getting to my belly in a way that was not fun. Teawise I like greens in a Yixing pot, lapsang suchong, darjeeling and a flavoured tea from Biglow’s called Constant Comment, which is a black flavoured with orange peels. I find the tea a lot less jarring to my head even when strong, and I like the fact that it is so good for you physically as well as emotionally and spiritually. In Canada we have an outfit called Murchie’s which sells highest quality loose teas from around the world.
I’ll second Snuffster - Yorkshire Tea is great. Tetley’s isn’t bad either. Bah gum Or even bah t’hat 
Aye lad, and none o that fairyin’ arairnd wi a birra lemon innit, tas t’ bi med wi ot watta 'n milk, tha knows. Reet gradely!