i agree with flashburn:
“…the cup has a wonderful profumo…”
actually, i like the smell of brewed coffee
and pipe tobacco, but i do not smoke, either.
I love the smell of coffee! 
I don't like the taste of coffee, but I do love the taste of cappuccino.
I don't like all the caffeine of cappuccino, but the flavor is amazing. 
Maybe ’cause I haven’t had my coffee yet, but that made me very… confused.
My post?
It's simple.
I like the smell of coffee, but I don't like the taste of coffee. 
There isn’t one taste of coffee. There’s coffee that tastes like cherries, even blueberries, for instance. (anaerobic process)
To clarify, I have found that every type of coffee that I have tasted has been repulsive.
Meanwhile, most cappuccino I have tried has been absolutely delicious.
In other words, I have tasted enough types of coffee to know that it isn't for me, no matter how good is smells.
You can say that I haven't tasted every type of coffee on Earth, but I also haven't smelled every type of dog poop, yet I know that dog poop isn't for me either.
For me, it’s sugar, ½&½, and a half-capful of vanilla extract.
Cappuccino is coffee….
Just had some gas station Mexican coffee. Too strong for me, so I watered it down. The way I hear it, if you don’t grind your coffee beans, you are getting roach legs and other vermin in the grounds. Funny.
I would accept that as an axiom.
Back when I used to drink coffee, I didn’t roast my own, but I usually purchased directly from roasters, roast-to-order. They don’t roast it until you order it and then ship it the same day, so I’d get it within 2-3 days of roasting. There is some off gassing that happens within the first couple of days after roasting, so for best flavor you want to wait a couple of days before brewing anyway.
Sure.
Go to Starbucks and order a cappuccino and see if they give you coffee instead.
If they do, then they screwed up your order.
Cappuccino has coffee in it, but all of the extra ingredients make it cappuccino and not coffee.
Your post is like saying "concrete is cement."
Concrete has cement in it, but the extra ingredients make it concrete and not cement.
Have you ever heard of the phrase, "grasping at straws" ?
You can call cappuccino "coffee" all you want, but words have meanings and those meanings don't change just because you want them to.
Do a double-blind taste test and let us know what you find. :sunglasses:
Indeed.
It’s really amazing how varied coffee can taste depending upon from where the beans were harvested. Those fruit similarities aren’t artificially introduced either. Some speculate that there might be pollination influences, i.e. where bees had been before. Then there’s the soil and the weather…
Roasting that is artfully done can help bring out those qualities… and otherwise, careless roasting can trash ’em.
This is the best way to get fresh roast if you don’t home roast. Many small roasters are roasting and shipping on the same day now. Find a roaster that has beans you like either local or will ship to you.
Anaerobic processed coffee is fermented for a brief period in sealed barrels, and this tends to add fruit notes to the flavor. Other processing methods are: washed, which is the most common method, natural / dry process, and the “honey” process. They all have distinct flavor characteristics. There is also “wet-hulled” which is an Indonesian thing and I have not had this yet.
I absolutely do not.
I need a cup in the morning, but thats also it for my daily intake of the stuff.
i do not
why be that fussy?
just get used to Regular Black Coffee already
wle
Doggone you guys!! You’re costing me more money!!! Popcorn popper and unroasted beans ordered, from Sweet Maria’s. 
I have never noticed any difference in flavor when I’ve kept my Dunkin Donuts coffee or Starbucks coffee for 2 or 3 months. I always thought this ‘freshly roasted bean’ stuff was not really a big deal. But the Mayorga beans I bought (freshly roasted just before shipping) did cease to taste good after about 3 weeks (in fact they now taste quite bad, and my wife complains about how bad that coffee smells). So now I’ve put 2+2 together and realized that the Dunkin and Starbucks stuff probably is already old by the time I get it, and that’s why I don’t notice a significant change in taste over time.
I don’t drink coffee all that often, and roasting just enough beans at a time to make 2-3 cups is probably ideal to keep me in fresh stuff. Logically, therefore, as Spock said to McCoy, “I have little choice but to sample your beans.”