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I can't believe there is a discussion about the "best" coffee and there are only two posts about Peet's. Yes, it's a West Coast (California) franchise, but their coffee is so different and good that I've had people in the hallway at work tell approach me to tell me how good my coffee smells and asked me for the secret. A lot of people talk about this coffee and that being better, but then when you try them it's not much different than any other coffee. Peet's is radically different, and there's no way to explain it 'till you've had it.

Most Safeway (Midwest) or Vons (West) grocery stores carry Peet's. It's not nearly as good from the store as it is fresh from a Peet's location or online, but it's still a lot better. Try it.

If you have a Peets Coffee in your area, or you don't mind having them shipped to you (http://www.peets.com/) they do the best dark roasts.

That's why it's properly referred to as Charbucks and real coffee connoisseurs drink Peet's.

I buy mine at Peets.

The machines are ok. Pretty solid for their price point, but anything you keep clean will make good coffee, so the idea is to get one that you can keep clean easily, and stands up to that cleaning for years. Braun's pretty decent.

They're even better when you put real coffee in them though. Starbucks coffee is often way too stale, and they seem to have no problem selling you a pound of the burnt schwag at the bottom of the sack.

FYI: Keeping coffee in the freezer is not a good idea as it destroys the flavor. Your best bet is to buy whole beans and grind as needed.

Keeping coffee not in the freezer is even worse. Grinding causes it to lose flavor faster, no matter how you store it.

The best solution is to use freshly roasted beans. Since that's not always possible (unless you order them direct from the roaster), the next best solution is to buy whole beans in small batches and grind them before you use them. However, even beans start to lose their flavor once the vacuum-pack is broken, so if you buy beans in larger quantities than you can use expediently, freezing the beans is a good option. Grinders will handle frozen beans just fine.

Not by me, Peet's (many less locations than Starbucks) makes coffee that many can not drink, but for us true connes^H^H^H^H adicts, nuthin' beats it.

Also, in my somewhat limited experience, the employees at Peet's are a hell of a lot nicer than their other corporate counterparts.

The glass of wine I've got on my desk right now is just Two Buck Chuck cabernet, but it's good enough for an average dinner or for reading Slashdot in the evening. Some websites really need coffee instead.

And the author of the press release had probably cranked up the volume on /dev/marijuana a bit too recently before noticing he had an article deadline.

I find that putting the same amount of good quality coffee (e.g., beans from my local organic coffee shop, or from Peet's and filtered water makes for a good pot of coffee every time. Put garbage in, and you'll get garbage out. If you're worried about the coffee getting stale, put it in a thermos to keep it hot so it doesn't get that skanky burned taste that leaving it on the hot pot can give. It uses less electricty that way, and you can take it with you to your computer^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H breakfast table with you, too. My sister in Germany has a coffee pot where the carafe is a thermos, and it shuts off the heating element as soon as the coffee is brewed.