Coffee

[cjsmith]

I don't drink coffee, but I bet some of my friends do. What are all the ways coffee (made in one of those basic office machines) can be bad?

I have so far: it's too weak, it's too strong, it got cold, it's gritty.

Comments

[yoak.livejournal.com]

The impact of "over-roasting" beans is very much a matter of preference. Starbucks probably roasts beans more thoroughly than almost anyone else and a few people seem to like that. I'm one of them.

I mention this not becaue I'm even remotely willing to get into an argument about coffee. It is just that I wouldn't want you take what might be an objection only from a coffee connoisseur with somewhat distinct preferences and assume that it is something a coffee drinker in an office might frequently complain about. Of course, I guess beans could be over-roasted to where no one would like it, but it would be shocking to find such things in a company coffee pot.

I haven't read all the comments yet so this may be mentioned elsewhere, but I find one of the most common office-coffee ills to be making many pots without washing the pot and allowing oil to build up. Coffee is rather oily, and when coffee pots sit around that oil builds up and becomes rancid. Not washing pots often will cause that rancid oil taste in fresh-brewed pots.