What is Your Favorite Coffee(s) and Tea(s) ?

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Doc Creed

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I like Maxwell House Breakfast Blend or Columbian. I drink store-bought Starbuck's Vanilla Lattes, too; the refrigerated bottles.
I don't like to eat when I'm drinking coffee but homemade butter cookies are good.

I like Red Diamond Tea or Chik-fil-A tea.

(I think there is a coffee/tea thread somewhere...deja vu.)
 

Grandpa

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We buy hazelnut-flavored beans and grind them. Sometimes French vanilla. Or something else.

But really, whether we're grinding our own or pouring the day-old stuff out of the convenience store pot, I like coffee, period. Hot, warm, room temperature, ice cold. Black, no sugar. And I'll drink it with most anything.

Teas, pretty much the same, although I am partial to a pomegranate-blueberry-acai that the local supermarket carries. I think it's a "Private Selection" branding (i.e., Kroger's relabeling, I think). Again, I'll drink it with anything.

Okay, I take that back about drinking them with anything. Crackers are cheese are accompanied by wine.
 

HollyGolightly

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My hands-down all time favorite coffee ever is Seattle's Best Sleigh Bell. It's their Christmas blend but I used to buy many bags of it and drink it all year. Now that Borders has closed, I can't find it anywhere. Who on here lives in Seattle? Maybe you can send me some? I can send you some Rendezvous sauces and rubs in return?

So, for everyday coffee, I really like Community Coffees. New Orleans blend, Breakfast Blend, Hotel Special Blend. And Starbucks Anniversary blends are good. I love coffee. My co-worker has to water it down when I make it at work. She says when I make the coffee it will walk out of the pot and into your cup for you. Ha. I don't like weak girlie coffee.

Tea I only drink cold/iced. I like unsweetened green tea in the summer. I've recently discovered Plantation Mint (Bigelow), and I make it sweet and drink it iced. The Ogre says it tastes like drinking chewing gum. But I like it.

I usually don't eat breakfast until I'm completely caffeinated, I like to enjoy the buzz for a while. But sometimes I do like a good biscotti. A friend of mine makes pistachio cranberry biscotti for Christmas that's to die for. Dipped in a Sleigh Bell coffee is very nearly orgasmic.
 

hipmamajen

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I used to live within rock-throwing distance of the Celestial Seasonings Tea factory in Boulder. They were my favorites before that, but after a few tours (and stops in the Mint Room) they became extra-super favorites.

They make so many that I can't even start to tell you a favorite. Their Christmas ones are amazing, and we stock up on them, so maybe I'll say those.
 

GNTLGNT

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I used to live within rock-throwing distance of the Celestial Seasonings Tea factory in Boulder. They were my favorites before that, but after a few tours (and stops in the Mint Room) they became extra-super favorites.

They make so many that I can't even start to tell you a favorite. Their Christmas ones are amazing, and we stock up on them, so maybe I'll say those.
....Tracy and I really enjoyed the tour there....
 

kingricefan

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...my dad got me to liking this one....rich blend of flavors that's sweet without sugar....
Yeppers! I do put an almost but not quite teaspoon of sugar in mine and then add milk. I guess since we were poor growing up and buying coffee was something that Mom only did for special occasions, that she instilled my love for tea drinking when I was a kid. Of course back then it was Tetley tea and only Tetley. Used to drink tea everyday but got away from it for some reason.