Coffee Quality Quotes

Don't buy preground coffee.

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

Coffee on an airplane always smells bad. Whenever it is served, suddenly the whole cabin stinks of it.

The coffee in Araku is the best I have had so far.

...it isn't foolish or wicked to enjoy. Wickedness is hurting people on purpose. I love what you are and who you are and how you are. You give me great joy. And you make horrible coffee.

Coffee it is best to buy by the bag, as it improves by keeping. Let it hang in the bag, in a dry place, and it loses its rank smell and taste.

I hate decaffeinated coffee. It's useless brown water.

Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.

Instant coffee is just old beans that have been cremated.

On Saturday mornings I would walk to the Flavor Cup or Puerto Rico Importing coffee store to get my coffee. Often it was freshly roasted and the beans were still warm. Coffee was my nectar and my ambrosia: I was very careful about it. I decanted my beans into glass...and I ground them in little batches in my grinder.

For Starbucks, there will be no shortage of the highest-quality arabica beans. I suspect that for some others there could potentially be a problem, not in the near term, but over time.

Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?

I'll often order a cortado and stand there quizzing the poor barista about the extraction time, how much pressure they are applying and how many grams are in it. I am that guy. It's reprehensible to the max, but it's how I go through my life.

I drink regular pour-over coffee, black. It's all about the beans. I'm always stocked at home with single-origin coffees from around the world, never more than two weeks old, kept in airtight containers.

See, this was why I liked coffee. You couldn’t screw up making coffee. Even the bad stuff was good.

If the coffee can taste so good with nothing else in it, then that's a good cup of coffee.

I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.

Naturally healthy soil can sustain coffee crops for generations to come. All of this contributes to the quality of the bean.

You can tell when you have crossed the frontier into Germany because of the badness of the coffee.

How's it going down there?" "It's weird. They're too polite, they talk funny, and stuff has too much shine on it. But the coffee's worse than Central's, so that's something.

When I first started going to Portland, people told me about Stumptown. They were like 'Oh, it's the best coffee,' and I thought, 'How good could it really be?' I'm like, 'Sure, great, uh... I'd love to see it.' But then when I went, it truly, I am not kidding, is the best coffee I have ever had.

Some American delusions: 1) That there is no class-consciousness in the country. 2) That American coffee is good. 3) That Americans are business-like. 4) That Americans are highly-sexed and that redheads are more highly sexed than others.

I need good coffee!" I say in horror. "It's my only luxury!" I can't live with my parents and drink bad coffee. It's not humanly possible. Becky talking about cutting back with her parents.

Johnny Vassilaros is the man who has created the finest cup of coffee ever served in the city of New York.

American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations for purposes of genocide, whereas coffee made with an American percolator, such as you find in private houses or in humble luncheonettes, served with eggs and bacon, is delicious, fragrant, goes down like pure spring water, and afterwards causes severe palpitations, because one cup contains more caffeine than four espressos.