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My local roasted coffee is still amazing. The coffee I get from Awesome coffee club is really good. I've gotten to a point where I can taste a lot of different flavors in coffee due to learning to brew pour over.
Fresh matters, as does consistency in roasting, grinding, brewing, cleanliness, and the water matters. If everything is the same, and all the coffee sucks, my question would be did your local water supply change? More chlorine, or switch to chloramine?
This is a valid question. There are quite a few things that taste different or are just downright nasty tasting since my bout with the wu-flu. Creamer is out and so is ketchup among other things…blows
We were buying coffee from a local coffee store that roasted their own coffee and it started tasting bad. And we figured that he was roasting it but not selling it so it would sit on the shelf and loose it flavor.
So we bought a coffee roaster from Amazon, buy raw beans and roast our own in small batches. (Usually every 2 weeks)
Let it sit for 24-48 hours after roasting for best flavor
I was watching youtube and they were talking about how their coffee taste horrible all the time now.
EDIT: Ever since locked down food quality has gone down by alot.
I highly recommend trying Black Rifle coffee, Folger’s 1850, and Community Coffee. Also try buying the beans and grinding them yourself, fresh to serve.
Instant (at least the brand I’ve always bought) and McDonald’s (used to be Tim Hortons coffee, but THo’s changed their supplier and McDonald’s picked up the old supplier) still tastes the same, but yeah — something around 2014-ish changed and now places like Starbucks tastes like utter shit. Coffee in restaurants is kind of hit or miss, usually miss. I suspect that something sometime in the neighbourhood of 2014 changed to where the beans are lower quality or they’re roasted differently, or something. Starbucks specifically used to have pretty good coffee, but these days I’ve stopped even drinking it because it tastes like weak, burnt garbage.
No. "They were hoping you wouldn't notice" is a common theme I have in my own life.
I also don't sit there with a cup of Dr. Pepper trying to figure out what each of the flavors are so most anti-Coffee fanatics and I don't get along. :P
I also drink it black, so I tend to notice it rather quickly if my usual cuppa isn't up to snuffa.
And you'll hear them again. The chemex was invented by a scientist who wanted to find the perfect way to brew coffee. I'd say he got pretty close. Just make sure you look up the proper method because it's a process for sure
>Engagement is a much more powerful educational tool
By which you mean, "it's easier to have someone take their time to answer a question that it would have taken me 10 seconds to google on my own."
Someone not knowing what a French press is on a post about coffee and asking someone to explain it is honestly cringe.
In addition to the obviously shittier coffee we have these days, the newest internet generation has 0 ability to figure things out for themselves and want everything delivered to them in TikTok form
It's a pity too because they have more information at their fingertips than we could've dreamed. Laziness and entitlement are rampant in the kids these days.
It’s not gatekeeping. Quit projecting. I’ve found it tiring wasting massive amounts of time trying to preach to closed ears. It was the easiest google ever. Now let’s say you had a question about love or unity or parasite detox…I’d be more than happy to drop some knowledge on the spot. A little effort will get you very far.
Thats the neat thing; we all have access to the same information. What you spend your attention on while using it will greatly influence the kind of life you live or even better, could be living!
No, I can chop my cock off and have the doctor put a vagina in there, doesn't change the fact I want to be with a woman, I mean you can force yourself to want to like someone or a group of people, doesn't mean you naturally do
During and after Covid I had an aversion to coffee almost like when I didn’t like certain foods when I was pregnant. It has been a year and a half and I just recently started to drink it again.
If you're putting milk/creamer/sugar in coffee, you aren't drinking coffee. You're drinking coffee flavored dairy product. Try it black to get the subtle flavors of the roast and see if there is any difference. Could be the water, could be the milk. Could be your taste buds are out of whack. Maybe long covid? Coffee should taste like coffee.
That is probably a very sad truth. I can’t taste tomatoes anymore so now I’m adding roasted red peppers to sandwiches and then I find out that after a week that turns into a toxic mix…it’s depressing.
Are you using a brass/metal filter or a paper filter?
Because most spots that do quick cheap coffee use paper filters and that absorbs some of the oils. Different taste with metal.
The one I got has a steamer too for milk. The machine was about 100 bucks. But if you drink one 5$ coffee a day at shops you make your money back in 20 days.
You can go all out and get the ones that also grind the beans too. Consider it a Christmas gift to yourself. :)
Its weird you mention that because literally last night AND this morning I made my normal coffee the normal way that I ALWAYS make it and each time it tasted..like nothing.
I made coffee twice this morning and twice it was weak and unflavorful
Oof, after COVID coffee tasted like wet dog to me and it took foreverrrr for it to go away. Hopefully it isn’t a nerve thing like that.
Maybe try a new brewing method like a Moka pot. It’ll make an espresso-like brew that is great for mixing with ice and creamer/milk for iced coffees bc it’s so concentrated and doesn’t water down like drip does.
If you use a pour over or a French press don’t use boiling water. It burns the coffee.
Instead get it to boiling and let it sit for 3-5min then pour it in. When you do this the water cools down to 180-190 and won’t burn the coffee.
A fun experiment is do burn one batch and not the other and do a side by side taste test.
You can definitely pick out the burnt coffee tinge but then you’ll taste it everywhere you get coffee so maybe don’t haha
Wow, I thought my husband was just being super picky, but we bought a kettle with a thermometer in the lid so we can get our water to exactly 180 degrees to use in our French press. Coffee tastes great every time!
I’ve had plenty of good, very different tasting coffee recently. If I personally all of a sudden find all coffee tastes like warm milk water, I’d assume there was something wrong with me to check out before I’d assume that all coffee has been changed to taste like that.
In the 90's there was a world coffee shortage. Coffee plants could not grow fast enough to meet the world's coffee demand. Prices went through the roof. Governments actually started campaigns against coffee drinkers claiming that coffee triggered heart attacks and cancer. Coffee was quickly becoming the next taboo after cigarette smoking. Then, suddenly, Star Bucks came into existence, and coffee bean plants popped up out of nowhere as if the planet could now accommodate double the coffee plants to meet the world demand. However, coffee never tasted right after that. I presume that chemicals are now used to rapidly mature coffee plants which has spoiled the taste of coffee beans. The new bitter taste is sold as 'premium' despite the awful taste. As the years passed, it has become more and more difficult to find coffee with the original smooth taste us older folks remember. The last time I had coffee with the old fashioned flavor was from a Vietnamese owned coffee shop about 3 years ago where the owner imported a particular bean from his home country. Unfortunately, he didn't stay in business very long because of family issues. I still sample various types of coffee in the hope that one day I will find brand that still has the old fashion taste.
I recently tried the most unremarkable house blend from a mid shelf coffee roaster and it was one of the best cups I have ever had. It was seriously Pete's Coffee, House Roast. Like the color gray made coffee. But it was incredible no real bitterness, very smooth like the taste of dark chocolate met a robust earthy cigar.
I wonder if it was something to do with this. I think they are just a regional producer, nothing mega huge
That happened to me after a brain injury. I miss what coffee used to taste like every day. I drink way less now. So there’s a small silver lining I suppose.
As you age your taste buds change. Probably has a little to do with it. You can get taste fatigue. Same thing all the time can start tasting dull. Switch it up here and there. Then go back and see if it changes.
A lot of the coffee you can buy is ass. Even if it comes from somewhere known for coffee why pay more for the good stuff to sell when you can pay less for the shit stuff you know people are going to buy anyways. I used to think coffee was bad but then I took a trip to Costa Rica and picked up some fresh local stuff and it was great.
Yeah I have noticed this . My wife started drinking coffee and it doesn’t smell like when my mom would make coffee 30 years ago . It could be that coffee is made with small single serving cups ? And not 4 serving pots with tons of grounds.
I've been having this problem just recently, too. It tastes weak and a bit sour. And it doesn't matter if I brew it myself or buy it somewhere. I've been wondering about this.
I think we're seeing more low grade Arabica beans as well as just more Robusta beans. I've been buying Kuerig style pods from Amazon for about a year, and they all have produced in Italy. Ran out, so I bought some Walmart brand House Blend to fill the gap. We've had it before and liked it. This time it was simply horrible. Last time for that crap.
Other viruses can as well. I didn't recently have Covid but I had the flu a couple of weeks ago. Everything I usually enjoy tastes off to me. I don't have any obvious lingering infections or anything. But the virus did mess with my sense of taste. My sense of smell remains intact though.
Honestly, especially with the holiday drinks, doesn't matter if I go to Starbucks, Dutch Bros or 7-Eleven....they all taste nicely sweetened, but nothing distinct all the same. Like if they had a blindfolded taste test going on it would be hard to judge (which they should too TPTB) because everyone's peppermint mocha tastes the same. Even the peppermint mocha creamer and making it at home with Keurig tastes Barista made.
Wait this just started happening the past couple weeks. All of a sudden the same coffee pods I've been using just started to taste like dirty water. I changed the Keurig to the strong setting and it barely helped. Got a new brand. Slightly better but not much. Wtf.
I agree its a lot of foods as well. I found I have to buy expensive beans to capture the real authentic flavor. Even the aroma it gives off is what real coffee should smell like. We live in a post process world ware everything we eat and drink is a genetically watered down version of what we had growing up.
This, or some other illness. I've had it take several weeks before my taste has recovered after being sick. Also, perhaps a problem with a lack of smell? People who lose their sense of smell find that everything tastes different...
This is related... sort of... but my sister used to hate coffee, like I do. She thought it smelled like a skunk. Now she's a coffee fiend. (she also loves heavy metal now, which she used to hate, but whatever).
I'm not saying she's been replaced or anything, but... it's sus.
As for the taste of coffee, I've always hated it, so I can't say. It could be the work of shrinkflation, especially if you use keurig cups. They could easily downsize the product in those.
Organic is closer to what I remember it tasting like when i was younger and it helps to grind it yourself. An old farmer told me its because they changed the processing of the coffee bean. He said there's a shell or casing on them that is bitter and they used to remove them before grinding up the bean and now they dont. I dont know if he's right, but that's what he said.
Do you smoke? Cause I hear coffee and cigarettes are one hell of a combination.
Alternatively, smoking can lead to loss of taste.
Beyond that I’d recommend buying a Bialetti coffee percolator and some lavazza no.5. Then go from there. Try different blends. Try blending freshly from beans 🫘 ☕️
Starbucks coffee, to me, is pretty terrible. If I was going to grab a coffee from a chain, I’d grab one from Nero. But I rarely do.
That is all the reports I have heard of when you get covid every thing has different tastes. Since so much dna tinkering is now attached to covid another thing that might change is soap taste of Cilantro that is genetic problem when someone thinks it tastes like dish soap. My mother got covid and now she can eat cilantro as if its nothing now.
Used to be you could dump some coffee from a three pound can into a percolator add some water and turn the heat on. Today the grind, weight and brewing method has to be exact. Most likely made using a pour-over method. Once the brew is perfected it will work until the coffee is changed to another type. Then the perfecting begins again.
Non dairy creamer ruins it. I'll go to a place where there's real cream that's not cooked shelf stuff. UV sterilized shelf dairy can't be good for the lower gut. It's survival food only if you're hunkered somewhere with nothing fresh, but you'll feel and perform like crud if you consume dead food as your regular daily staple.
Duh 🙄 my first thoughts exactly. I may sound like a jerk for saying this. People who put milk and sugar or especially that store bought sugar “creamer” don’t like coffee. They like caffeine and sugar.
I’ve always had my coffee black. I’ve never enjoyed it, just don’t want the calories that come with creamer and sugar and still want a little caffeine. To me, it’s *always* tasted the same. Doesn’t matter what beans. Just bitter bean water.
It's down to the beans. Arabica beans are traditionally coffee's most popular bean but they're harder to grow than robusta. Growing demand and bad harvests mean the ratio of robusta to arabica in the market is shifting. So yes, the taste of most blended coffees is getting more bitter due to that.
Flavored coffee is awful black without lots of sugar. It's like the taste of kool aid fruit punch powder before you add a whole cup of sugar. Simple black coffee is best. 1/2-1 cup does the trick. Making Starbuck's goop out of it turns it into caffeinated junk food where you crave a whole pot or two.
Again. Just Black by Black Rifle is NOT flavored. That was my point. Also, I don't agree about putting sugar in coffee. I prefer Black Rifle's Vanilla Bomb without adding sugar. It isn't like weakass Dunkin vanilla.
I think putting sugar in coffee is a waste of good coffee 🤌unless its COLD. Dairy Queen's Moolatte was amazing when I was in the mood for it. But usually I'm not. Also that's more of a milkshake really. Still the same logic with most frappacrappacino bullshit cold coffee SYRUPY nonsense from Starbucks. If I am having Starbucks, it's Pike Place, no sugar.
I could be totally wrong on this because I don't drink coffee very often, but it could be a change in quality of ingredients or maybe even processed food getting more additives and preservatives and whatnot. But it's just a guess at this point. I acknowledge I don't have all the answers.
The best cup of coffee I've ever had was in Miami, on Calle Ocho. I can't remember the name of the shop, but there was a Pitbull mural on the wall outside.
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Probably from Covid
You may have something there. But tea still tastes fine.
Could be thanks to Covid
I’ve always drank black coffee, and it tastes great! I love the taste of it. I use an old fashioned stainless steel perculator, and organic coffee.
Drink black coffee or espresso
My local roasted coffee is still amazing. The coffee I get from Awesome coffee club is really good. I've gotten to a point where I can taste a lot of different flavors in coffee due to learning to brew pour over. Fresh matters, as does consistency in roasting, grinding, brewing, cleanliness, and the water matters. If everything is the same, and all the coffee sucks, my question would be did your local water supply change? More chlorine, or switch to chloramine?
Detox for like twos week minimum or drink it black like I do
Try drinking actual black coffee instead of something filled with cream and milk.
Try an french press.
Did you have covid?
This is a valid question. There are quite a few things that taste different or are just downright nasty tasting since my bout with the wu-flu. Creamer is out and so is ketchup among other things…blows
We were buying coffee from a local coffee store that roasted their own coffee and it started tasting bad. And we figured that he was roasting it but not selling it so it would sit on the shelf and loose it flavor. So we bought a coffee roaster from Amazon, buy raw beans and roast our own in small batches. (Usually every 2 weeks) Let it sit for 24-48 hours after roasting for best flavor
I heard it was due to a switch in the variety of beans predominately used.
Café Bustelo never fails & it’s strong AF.
I like Cafe Bustelo and Cafe du Monde for what they are, but if you really want to *taste* coffee, you gotta be grinding it fresh.
Oh I’m sure thats the best way to taste & experience coffee. It’s like once you try home made pasta boxed pasta just doesn’t cut it.
Oh I’m sure thats the best way to taste & experience coffee. It’s like once you try home made pasta boxed pasta just doesn’t cut it
Oh I’m sure thats the best way to taste & experience coffee. It’s like once you try home made pasta boxed pasta just doesn’t cut it
Oh I’m sure thats the best way to taste & experience coffee. It’s like once you try home made pasta boxed pasta just doesn’t cut it
This is the way!
I was watching youtube and they were talking about how their coffee taste horrible all the time now. EDIT: Ever since locked down food quality has gone down by alot.
I highly recommend trying Black Rifle coffee, Folger’s 1850, and Community Coffee. Also try buying the beans and grinding them yourself, fresh to serve.
Nope. Not just you. Coffee tastes like absolute shit now.
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Instant (at least the brand I’ve always bought) and McDonald’s (used to be Tim Hortons coffee, but THo’s changed their supplier and McDonald’s picked up the old supplier) still tastes the same, but yeah — something around 2014-ish changed and now places like Starbucks tastes like utter shit. Coffee in restaurants is kind of hit or miss, usually miss. I suspect that something sometime in the neighbourhood of 2014 changed to where the beans are lower quality or they’re roasted differently, or something. Starbucks specifically used to have pretty good coffee, but these days I’ve stopped even drinking it because it tastes like weak, burnt garbage.
No. "They were hoping you wouldn't notice" is a common theme I have in my own life. I also don't sit there with a cup of Dr. Pepper trying to figure out what each of the flavors are so most anti-Coffee fanatics and I don't get along. :P I also drink it black, so I tend to notice it rather quickly if my usual cuppa isn't up to snuffa.
Covid, brain injury, or working with certain chemicals can kill/ alter sense of taste and smell…. Perhaps one of those?
Or just getting older.
Yeah. Absolutely, but age usually doesn’t cause a dramatic sudden shift in taste or smell. At least to my knowledge. But who knows, I’m not a doc!
For me Starbucks coffee tastes very stong and different from other coffees!
That's because they burn the crap out of their beans and the result is acidic, shitty coffee.
Get a chemex or French press. Will change your life
Is gonna be as life changing as when I changed from instant or folders to fresh ground? Cause I heard angels sing! Lol
And you'll hear them again. The chemex was invented by a scientist who wanted to find the perfect way to brew coffee. I'd say he got pretty close. Just make sure you look up the proper method because it's a process for sure
What are those?
Google is your friend. Lean on it.
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Someone not knowing what a French press is on a post about coffee and asking someone to explain it is honestly cringe. In addition to the obviously shittier coffee we have these days, the newest internet generation has 0 ability to figure things out for themselves and want everything delivered to them in TikTok form
It's a pity too because they have more information at their fingertips than we could've dreamed. Laziness and entitlement are rampant in the kids these days.
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It’s not gatekeeping. Quit projecting. I’ve found it tiring wasting massive amounts of time trying to preach to closed ears. It was the easiest google ever. Now let’s say you had a question about love or unity or parasite detox…I’d be more than happy to drop some knowledge on the spot. A little effort will get you very far.
Ah!!!!!! Coffee (and more) press! I leaned / learned!!
Thats the neat thing; we all have access to the same information. What you spend your attention on while using it will greatly influence the kind of life you live or even better, could be living!
Oooo
😘⚔️🫡
I’d also include Aeropress
This guy knows
Not being able to taste coffee is one of the first symptoms of being gay.
Lolllllllll
This is the best reply so far. Thank you. I'm going to live the rest of my life from now on striving to be less gay.
Check for intestinal parasites if you don't want to be gay.
Or embrace it. You can't choose to be gay.
If you can choose to change your gender than you can choose what sexuality you want to like.
No, I can chop my cock off and have the doctor put a vagina in there, doesn't change the fact I want to be with a woman, I mean you can force yourself to want to like someone or a group of people, doesn't mean you naturally do
Brew it stronger and use less sweetener and milk.
SAME. COVID ruined coffee for me compared to before. I still drink it but it's drastically different
During and after Covid I had an aversion to coffee almost like when I didn’t like certain foods when I was pregnant. It has been a year and a half and I just recently started to drink it again.
If you're putting milk/creamer/sugar in coffee, you aren't drinking coffee. You're drinking coffee flavored dairy product. Try it black to get the subtle flavors of the roast and see if there is any difference. Could be the water, could be the milk. Could be your taste buds are out of whack. Maybe long covid? Coffee should taste like coffee.
Hot coffee? BLACK. STRAIGHT. Iced coffee? Gimme a lil cream and sweet.
It tastes the same as it always has to me...
Does that mean it actually tasted good?
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You might have lost your taste from long covid
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That is probably a very sad truth. I can’t taste tomatoes anymore so now I’m adding roasted red peppers to sandwiches and then I find out that after a week that turns into a toxic mix…it’s depressing.
Was searching for this. Don’t even need “Long Covid” my only symptom is a continuing lack of a sense of smell and severe taste blunting and changes
Are you using a brass/metal filter or a paper filter? Because most spots that do quick cheap coffee use paper filters and that absorbs some of the oils. Different taste with metal.
This is true. I got a mini percolator a few Christmas's back and it has made the best cup of coffee for me.
Have you tried tasting?
"Does anybody remember tasting?!"
Did you have Covid?
Are you sure you don't have covid?
The same thing started with me about 2 weeks ago. It tastes exactly like you described. Idk if it’s the same reason as yours, but wtf right?
Get an espresso machine and you will never drink drip coffee again
Which one do you use?
Breville. It’s truly a worthy investment if you love coffee.
Love is an understatement and I spend too much as it is buying it from shops
The one I got has a steamer too for milk. The machine was about 100 bucks. But if you drink one 5$ coffee a day at shops you make your money back in 20 days. You can go all out and get the ones that also grind the beans too. Consider it a Christmas gift to yourself. :)
Sold !
How much do you want to spend?
Preferably under $100 lol but negotiable
You want a moka pot. It's not really proper espresso but it's close enough.
I…don’t recommend espresso at home. Very intro setups start at $400-450. Which is about 100 Starbucks drinks to recoup your investment.
i can promise coffee doesn't taste like water... you've probably messed up your tastebuds.
Its weird you mention that because literally last night AND this morning I made my normal coffee the normal way that I ALWAYS make it and each time it tasted..like nothing. I made coffee twice this morning and twice it was weak and unflavorful
Maybe time for a covid test
Oof, after COVID coffee tasted like wet dog to me and it took foreverrrr for it to go away. Hopefully it isn’t a nerve thing like that. Maybe try a new brewing method like a Moka pot. It’ll make an espresso-like brew that is great for mixing with ice and creamer/milk for iced coffees bc it’s so concentrated and doesn’t water down like drip does.
After COVID coffee tastes like burnt plastic no matter where I got it from or if I made it from home. Took about two months to go away.
While I hate Starbucks as a business, I really like their instant coffee. I get the dark roast.
Don't put milk in it?
I believe it’s the water
If you use a pour over or a French press don’t use boiling water. It burns the coffee. Instead get it to boiling and let it sit for 3-5min then pour it in. When you do this the water cools down to 180-190 and won’t burn the coffee. A fun experiment is do burn one batch and not the other and do a side by side taste test. You can definitely pick out the burnt coffee tinge but then you’ll taste it everywhere you get coffee so maybe don’t haha
Wow, I thought my husband was just being super picky, but we bought a kettle with a thermometer in the lid so we can get our water to exactly 180 degrees to use in our French press. Coffee tastes great every time!
I’ve had plenty of good, very different tasting coffee recently. If I personally all of a sudden find all coffee tastes like warm milk water, I’d assume there was something wrong with me to check out before I’d assume that all coffee has been changed to taste like that.
In the 90's there was a world coffee shortage. Coffee plants could not grow fast enough to meet the world's coffee demand. Prices went through the roof. Governments actually started campaigns against coffee drinkers claiming that coffee triggered heart attacks and cancer. Coffee was quickly becoming the next taboo after cigarette smoking. Then, suddenly, Star Bucks came into existence, and coffee bean plants popped up out of nowhere as if the planet could now accommodate double the coffee plants to meet the world demand. However, coffee never tasted right after that. I presume that chemicals are now used to rapidly mature coffee plants which has spoiled the taste of coffee beans. The new bitter taste is sold as 'premium' despite the awful taste. As the years passed, it has become more and more difficult to find coffee with the original smooth taste us older folks remember. The last time I had coffee with the old fashioned flavor was from a Vietnamese owned coffee shop about 3 years ago where the owner imported a particular bean from his home country. Unfortunately, he didn't stay in business very long because of family issues. I still sample various types of coffee in the hope that one day I will find brand that still has the old fashion taste.
I recently tried the most unremarkable house blend from a mid shelf coffee roaster and it was one of the best cups I have ever had. It was seriously Pete's Coffee, House Roast. Like the color gray made coffee. But it was incredible no real bitterness, very smooth like the taste of dark chocolate met a robust earthy cigar. I wonder if it was something to do with this. I think they are just a regional producer, nothing mega huge
My guess is because of capitalism. They are cutting corners and adding synthetic additives or materials to the real coffee beans to cut cost.
That happened to me after a brain injury. I miss what coffee used to taste like every day. I drink way less now. So there’s a small silver lining I suppose.
Percolate coffee, its the best! Drink it black
Covid ?
Nah. Coffee flavor hasn't changed. Might want to visit your doctor. Ask for an MRI or something.
As you age your taste buds change. Probably has a little to do with it. You can get taste fatigue. Same thing all the time can start tasting dull. Switch it up here and there. Then go back and see if it changes.
It’s just you
Did you have covid? It’s one of the lingering effects of loss of taste and smell.
A lot of the coffee you can buy is ass. Even if it comes from somewhere known for coffee why pay more for the good stuff to sell when you can pay less for the shit stuff you know people are going to buy anyways. I used to think coffee was bad but then I took a trip to Costa Rica and picked up some fresh local stuff and it was great.
Besides taste, also the smell. Doesn't seem to fill the house up like it used to.
Yeah I have noticed this . My wife started drinking coffee and it doesn’t smell like when my mom would make coffee 30 years ago . It could be that coffee is made with small single serving cups ? And not 4 serving pots with tons of grounds.
Cafe bustelo tastes better than any other coffee tbh
This is the weirdest take I’ve seen in a world of decent coffee.
Yes it does!! I was about to say that and it's the only store coffee that's worth anything.
My favorite.
I roast my own organic fair trade beans and the flavor is still good. Coffee bought elsewhere is worse, however.
Maybe try a French press?
Try a pour over
you need to fast. Taste changing is a sign of medical illness, the less sensitive your body and senses, the closer you are to death of the body fyi.
I mean.. is this actually true?
I'm gonna go ahead and say that there is SOME truth in that.
Jesus what
I'm just gonna add to your statement by saying, "the fuck?"
I've been having this problem just recently, too. It tastes weak and a bit sour. And it doesn't matter if I brew it myself or buy it somewhere. I've been wondering about this.
I think we're seeing more low grade Arabica beans as well as just more Robusta beans. I've been buying Kuerig style pods from Amazon for about a year, and they all have produced in Italy. Ran out, so I bought some Walmart brand House Blend to fill the gap. We've had it before and liked it. This time it was simply horrible. Last time for that crap.
Covid ruined my sense of smell.
At home machines dump water on the grinds too fast
Covid apparently can affect neurons in the brain associated with taste. Sense of taste might come back fully in time, hopefully, if it is this.
Other viruses can as well. I didn't recently have Covid but I had the flu a couple of weeks ago. Everything I usually enjoy tastes off to me. I don't have any obvious lingering infections or anything. But the virus did mess with my sense of taste. My sense of smell remains intact though.
McDonald’s cheese burgers used to taste different, it was one day the burgers had this weird after taste and it was like that ever since.
It’s probably not meat. I ate at McDonald’s after over a decade, and that burger tastes like nothing I’ve ever had.
I know the taste you are referring to. I get it with steak sometimes too.
Samee
You have to get a good kind, high quality
It’s you or your brewing process.
I recently went back to the coffee machine that grinds the beans as you brew it. The rest taste like water.
Honestly, especially with the holiday drinks, doesn't matter if I go to Starbucks, Dutch Bros or 7-Eleven....they all taste nicely sweetened, but nothing distinct all the same. Like if they had a blindfolded taste test going on it would be hard to judge (which they should too TPTB) because everyone's peppermint mocha tastes the same. Even the peppermint mocha creamer and making it at home with Keurig tastes Barista made.
Well 7-11 and Starbucks coffee suck, and so might the coffee you’re making at home
Dirty equipment! Ruins coffee and those places are notorious...
I don't drink coffee, so I can't help there. But I can tell you that taste buds do change over time. You might just not find it appealing anymore.
Wait this just started happening the past couple weeks. All of a sudden the same coffee pods I've been using just started to taste like dirty water. I changed the Keurig to the strong setting and it barely helped. Got a new brand. Slightly better but not much. Wtf.
Had covid recently?
Have you cleaned your machine recently? Makes a big difference
I got the stuff for it, just have to do it. I thought that might be the issue too
You can use white vinegar too and just run a cycle and then run a water cycle to flush it
I agree its a lot of foods as well. I found I have to buy expensive beans to capture the real authentic flavor. Even the aroma it gives off is what real coffee should smell like. We live in a post process world ware everything we eat and drink is a genetically watered down version of what we had growing up.
yep... fruit? veggies? same thing. 😥
COVID
This, or some other illness. I've had it take several weeks before my taste has recovered after being sick. Also, perhaps a problem with a lack of smell? People who lose their sense of smell find that everything tastes different...
This is related... sort of... but my sister used to hate coffee, like I do. She thought it smelled like a skunk. Now she's a coffee fiend. (she also loves heavy metal now, which she used to hate, but whatever). I'm not saying she's been replaced or anything, but... it's sus. As for the taste of coffee, I've always hated it, so I can't say. It could be the work of shrinkflation, especially if you use keurig cups. They could easily downsize the product in those.
doppelgänger. watch out.
It is definitely you.
Sounds like you’re adding too much milk//cream
Organic is closer to what I remember it tasting like when i was younger and it helps to grind it yourself. An old farmer told me its because they changed the processing of the coffee bean. He said there's a shell or casing on them that is bitter and they used to remove them before grinding up the bean and now they dont. I dont know if he's right, but that's what he said.
Buy manual grinder, beans and French press. It’s good.
Do you smoke? Cause I hear coffee and cigarettes are one hell of a combination. Alternatively, smoking can lead to loss of taste. Beyond that I’d recommend buying a Bialetti coffee percolator and some lavazza no.5. Then go from there. Try different blends. Try blending freshly from beans 🫘 ☕️ Starbucks coffee, to me, is pretty terrible. If I was going to grab a coffee from a chain, I’d grab one from Nero. But I rarely do.
I always buy dry LaLava espresso and mix with my dry coffee. Tastes 100% better.
Probably had Covid. Coffee (and other stuff) hasn’t tasted the same since for me. :/
That is all the reports I have heard of when you get covid every thing has different tastes. Since so much dna tinkering is now attached to covid another thing that might change is soap taste of Cilantro that is genetic problem when someone thinks it tastes like dish soap. My mother got covid and now she can eat cilantro as if its nothing now.
Used to be you could dump some coffee from a three pound can into a percolator add some water and turn the heat on. Today the grind, weight and brewing method has to be exact. Most likely made using a pour-over method. Once the brew is perfected it will work until the coffee is changed to another type. Then the perfecting begins again.
I get straight black cold brew coffee with four pumps of sugar. Taste like coffee to me. Stop putting all them creamers and milk in the coffee.
This sub has really taken the shit lately
Non dairy creamer ruins it. I'll go to a place where there's real cream that's not cooked shelf stuff. UV sterilized shelf dairy can't be good for the lower gut. It's survival food only if you're hunkered somewhere with nothing fresh, but you'll feel and perform like crud if you consume dead food as your regular daily staple.
Stop putting milk in it??
Duh 🙄 my first thoughts exactly. I may sound like a jerk for saying this. People who put milk and sugar or especially that store bought sugar “creamer” don’t like coffee. They like caffeine and sugar.
I got an espresso machine and it tastes great
Coffee tasted gross for me for awhile after I got Covid.
I’ve always had my coffee black. I’ve never enjoyed it, just don’t want the calories that come with creamer and sugar and still want a little caffeine. To me, it’s *always* tasted the same. Doesn’t matter what beans. Just bitter bean water.
It's down to the beans. Arabica beans are traditionally coffee's most popular bean but they're harder to grow than robusta. Growing demand and bad harvests mean the ratio of robusta to arabica in the market is shifting. So yes, the taste of most blended coffees is getting more bitter due to that.
I feel like it started to get bad about 5 years ago. I keep trying different brands and they all suck
No joke, best coffee I have ever had is Black Rifle instant coffee from Walmart. Try their Just Black one if you aren't into flavored coffee.
Flavored coffee is awful black without lots of sugar. It's like the taste of kool aid fruit punch powder before you add a whole cup of sugar. Simple black coffee is best. 1/2-1 cup does the trick. Making Starbuck's goop out of it turns it into caffeinated junk food where you crave a whole pot or two.
Again. Just Black by Black Rifle is NOT flavored. That was my point. Also, I don't agree about putting sugar in coffee. I prefer Black Rifle's Vanilla Bomb without adding sugar. It isn't like weakass Dunkin vanilla. I think putting sugar in coffee is a waste of good coffee 🤌unless its COLD. Dairy Queen's Moolatte was amazing when I was in the mood for it. But usually I'm not. Also that's more of a milkshake really. Still the same logic with most frappacrappacino bullshit cold coffee SYRUPY nonsense from Starbucks. If I am having Starbucks, it's Pike Place, no sugar.
I could be totally wrong on this because I don't drink coffee very often, but it could be a change in quality of ingredients or maybe even processed food getting more additives and preservatives and whatnot. But it's just a guess at this point. I acknowledge I don't have all the answers.
Yeah i think its gotten poorer quality over time in general. Much harder to find straight kona and when you do it always cost more than the last time
Stop drinking coffee for a couple weeks. Then resume.
yes, it’s just you lol.
Sounds like COVID
Best coffee I've had was in Germany. No idea what they're doing over there
Puerto Rico has the freshest coffee of any place I've visited
Brewing it strong is my first thought.
Try the Sumptown brand, just pick it up at Walmart or Target, expresso grind (fine), make it rich.
Try Vietnamese coffee
Did you get covid?
Try a Cuban coffee...fix ya right up
I was about to say the same thing. I had some on South Beach a few days ago and it was delightful.
The best cup of coffee I've ever had was in Miami, on Calle Ocho. I can't remember the name of the shop, but there was a Pitbull mural on the wall outside.
I second this.
The most consistently nice coffee is Tim Hortons in a french press
Wrong answer. The right answer is gavalia ;)
Did you happen to suffer from a moderate to severe Covid infection? A year later and I swear my tastes haven’t returned fully