Some of these Reddit people really do get it
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I worked in a coffee house on my college campus and I didn't like coffee. I didn't freak out at the customers though.
I was with my nephews at their grandfather's funeral (mother's dad). Their grandmother wasn't handling things well so I took them over to the hall in the church where they were serving coffee. They were trying very hard to be grown-up and got a cup. I nearly bust a gut when one took a sip and his eyes bugged out with a look of 'Egads, who drinks this shit and thinks it's good?' I simply said 'it's an acquired taste.'
Ten bucks says it was a coffee urn and some idiot filled the basket to the brim with the darkest roast they could find...
That $10 is all yours my friend!
=P Keep it and think of me when you're a millionaire and need someone to mow your 500-acre front lawn.
But seriously, Like I said in a previous post, most people have no idea how to make actually good coffee, and, if they take any advice at all, they take the device manufacturer or coffee-companies advice, which is almost invariably shit. And most people have never seen a percolator/coffee urn, much less used one regularly enough to figure out how it works, so you almost always get the nastiess coffee you've ever had in your life out of it.
You want good coffee, you start with the lightest roast you can find, doesn't even need to be a premium brand(i use folgers breakfast blend a lot of the time, just as an example), just as light as possible, use about half the manufacturer's recommended amount, and tweak it up or down to your taste, then add just enough sugar/creamer/milk to kill the tiny bit of bitterness left, and you've got a cup that tastes as good or better than it smells.
If you go with a percolator/urn, make sure to either use filters or ideally get a burr mill and grind your own beans. Those blade mills almost never give a consistent grind, so you're never gonna get good results, and to my knowledge, nobody sells coarse ground coffee anymore, so shrug.