7-11 also has pretty good gourmet coffee. But the best gourmet coffee is my own homemade brew. It is also much cheaper than paying for fancy paper cups elsewhere.
Agree 7-11 is the best. I dont go to MCD's ever, but have been to star yucks.
I couldn't agree with you more. I LOVE 7-Eleven's drip-brewed coffee due to the strict 7-Eleven corporate policy of not keeping their fresh-brewed coffee more than one hour sitting on the burner.
"But the best gourmet coffee is my own homemade brew. It is also much cheaper than paying for fancy paper cups elsewhere."
I love gourmet coffee, but I'm cheap, LOL! The way I do it is to buy one of those smaller gourmet packets (.99) and add that to the cheapest coffee I can buy; usually a store brand, which is really a national brand in disguise, anyway. One packet to three cups or so of the cheaper grounds works for me.
My other secret is those flavored Coffee Mate liquid creamers. They make any cheap coffee taste good. ;)
I found the biggest problem, is no matter what coffee is used, virtually no consumer drip-type maker get the water hot enough to extract all the flavor out of the coffee, esp. when they get a few miles on them and calcified. It's possible to make "strong" but weak or poorly extracted coffee. So it does no good to buy yuppie-eunuch brew but not make it right.
The old percolators boiled the coffee, but at least didn't waste the coffee. Camping put a big enamelware cowboy pot by the fire or coals, not in it, for several hours and it's just as smooth as possible.