Types of Coffee

I always used to put cream and sugar in my coffee. Then, I started working at Starbucks, and now I drink my coffee black. I attribute this to the coffee tastings they have us do. Smell, Slurp, and then the manager asks, "what do you taste?" I never say the right thing. I am simply shooting in the dark when it comes to flavors, however, I do know what I like.

Since Starbucks coffee is primarily of the dark, bold roast variety, I jumped at the chance to try something different last night at Urth Cafe. The organic rain forest coffee is a mild coffee with an citrus taste which my brother says smells like tobacco. I realized that this lightly roasted variety needed another dimension for its flavors, so I added sugar and cream. Then, like magic, that indulgent taste of creamy coffee revisited me.

Lesson: Mild Coffee and cream work well together, their flavors rest upon each other. Starbucks' Pike Place taste better with non-fat milk which brings less to the palate. The darker roasts of coffee taste best black.