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

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 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 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 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.

cold brew, black, converted me 🥶

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.