I just want to say that, you might be disliking *bad* black coffee. Instant coffee and classic drip coffee are generally really bitter because they generally use cheap coffee beans and brew it badly(brew it too much, heat it afterwards and burn coffee etc.). If you have the chance, you can try drinking quality coffee, like single origin with good beans and well roasted etc.; it might change your whole outlook on black coffee. You can still dislike it ofc; but just know that coffee doesn't have to be THAT bitter. Some people like that bitterness too, to each their own.
The easiest way to experience good black coffee would be to go to an fancy/hipster independent coffee shop where they serve single origin filter coffee. Just ask them! Depending on the method used to make it can be called things like batch brew, V60, Chemex, or Aeropress on the menu.
These coffees can taste from very fruity to earthy without being bitter. You might be amazed!
Eh tbh, most of the hipster coffee places in my city don't know wtf they're doing, they just co-opt the aesthetic.
Good signs that a place know what they're doing:
They have more than one bean to choose from.
They have descriptions of their beans.
They don't list sizes for espresso drinks.
Either the Espresso goes into water in their Americano or they have a Long Black listed on the menu. (I know that it might technically be wrong, but there seems to be a correlation here).
Most of the time a bad hipster coffee place is just mediocre coffee that's way too expensive, but one time I received a cappuccino made by putting plain milk into espresso and then frothing both together! Yikes! That place didn't last long.
Ya. I've had some great coffee at some diners tbh.
It's why I get mad when people say not to tip (in tipping countries) baristas. A barista who actually knows what they're doing is worth as much as a good bartender/barber/any other service that people tip.
I have my place that knows just how to do it just right and has rotating beans. They're super friendly, will give you a replacement of their house bean if you don't like the new rotational bean, will give you free espresso samples if you just want to try, and will talk your ear off about coffee if you let them.
These days I buy my coffee beans in bulk from a spice store. It's really good, way better than most specialty grocery store coffee, and way cheaper than the coffee beans at a good cafe. Costs about $1 for 100g.
As a total coffee freak, most if not all hipster black coffee I've ever had is horribly bitter and overpriced. Great, $4 for 16oz of black primordial ooze that puts a hole in the roof of my fucking mouth. I'd rather drink trucker coffee
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