Here's the way me and my Berkely, Ca. born, godless heathen, crazy azzed liberal, redheaded wife enjoy our coffee:
She buys whole beans and we grind them as we get ready to make coffee....then we boil 8 cups of water and pour the water over the ground beans in some contraption called a "french press"......let the coffee and the water mix for 4 minutes....press the coffee to the bottom of the deal....and drink.
Fair warning.......I have seen people not used to the strength of the coffee we drink to damn near have a stroke upon drinking a cup.
If my hair on the back of my neck ain't tingling after two cups......I start over.
We have a coffee maker at work.....NOBODY will drink the coffee I make in it.
griffin
-------------------- "The Irish are one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever." - Sigmund Freud