Hello Coffee Lovers,
I am a coffee snob. I prefer my coffee pour-over, I like high grown South American beans, I like a light to medium roast, I think the water should be 175-190 degrees fahrenheit, and I will say no to certain coffee.
I LOVE flavoured coffee, especially the flavours that combine with the natural flavour of the beans. It’s one of the reasons I started JenEric Coffee.
When it comes to adding things to coffee, I had always believed that you were supposed to only drink good coffee black. I tried changing from cream to milk, and lowering the amount of sugar I use. I thought that as I got used to the taste, it would get better. It didn’t, all it did was make me enjoy coffee less. That could be because I recently found out I’m a supertaster, or it could be that I just don’t like the more bitter coffees.
I have had a few really good coffees that I drank black. They are very rare but they exist.
More recently, I have started thinking of dairy and sweeteners like salt in food or vanilla in baking. It’s a way to bring out the taste and enhance it. No one looks at you funny if you add cinnamon or nutmeg to your coffee and those are great ways to lower the bitterness and cover the taste of certain chains over-roasting their beans.
If adding something to your coffee makes you like it, then more power to you. If you’re adding stuff to make it tolerable, than maybe it’s the wrong coffee or coffee isn’t for you.
Basically, enjoy what you enjoy without feeling bad, and don’t force yourself to like something just because it’s “the way it should be”.
Stay safe and be kind,
Éric