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.

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.

cold brew, black, converted me 🥶

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.

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.

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.

mr coffee drip never does me wrong. when im feeling fancy ill get out the percolator. coffee with cream and sugar gives my mouth a waxy feeling, so ill always drink black

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

Godot from Phoenix Wright: Trails and Tribulations

“Blacker than a moonless night, hotter and more bitter than Hell itself… That is coffee”

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

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

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.

It’s just yummy, and the flavor is way more intense. I brew and drink some pretty fancy coffees sometimes, but even still I don’t really care about the differences between anything above mid-tier, so that’s where I usually live. It’s just nice to have something to sip on that hurts ya back, ya know?

Though admittedly, I’ll sometimes go for a brown sugar shaken espresso monstrosity, but those are on pretty rare occasions, and usually when I’m already making one for my spouse anyways.

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