Do any of you drink bad coffee on purpose sometimes?
Over the past couple years, I've really gotten into specialty coffee while brewing at home, mostly v60 pour over and recently aeropress brewing. I've been leaning into lighter south American roasts. I've also adopted black coffee as normal consumption, which I never thought I would do. I always used to have to use sugar and cream to hide the real coffee taste.
We make coffee for customers on the whale watching boat I work on. It's not the best (preground drip), but not the worst coffee I've consumed. Over the past couple months, I've been purposely drinking more of the boat coffee. Even going as far as not making my own brew before work. This makes me really appreciate my specialty cups at home on my days off. Even if my home brews aren't perfect, they have been tasting better with respect to the daily work cups.
So do any of you coffee loves consume not so great coffee to appreciate those great cups you make at home even more?