LPT: Pour your coffee from a height of several inches (or more). It will introduce more oxygen into solution and tangibly improve the taste.

Be careful, but with a little practice you won't spill a drop. I pour from like a foot and half over the cup, you can manage 6 inches quite easily.

Bonus points: decant into a thermos with your sugar and/or milk in it and give it a few shakes before pouring.

I am a total coffee snob. I roast my own beans. I use a thermometer when I make french press. Even if it's 6 am. I am not that motivated if I wake up and need to shit. I really. Love. Coffee.

On a first date I once said, "I didn't think you liked me when I first met you."

To which she replied, "To be honest, I didn't."

Me: What turned it around?

Her: That fucking coffee you made at <friend's name>'s, what'd you call it?

Me: laughing French press. laughing intensifies

Her: Yeah, french press!

I REALLY KNOW MY COFFEE.

Trust me, this works. Try it.

I have tons more coffee tips if you guys are interested.

edit: More coffee tips

• Decanting into an air tight thermos keeps your coffee warm while preserving the taste much longer than a warmer/hot plate

• placing coffee in the fridge immediately after brewing makes the best iced coffee without watering it down! Unless you're into cold brew. Yuck.

• Freshness matters more than you think. If you've never had coffee made from fresh roasted beans, you've never had coffee. It's at least 3x better. I'm not exaggerating.

• If you like coffee but find yourself getting uncomfortably stimulated by it, switch to dark roast! It contains as little as 1/3 of the caffeine as an equivalent amount of light roast. The additional heat during roasting breaks down some of the caffeine.

• Try adding a small pinch of coarse kosher salt to your grounds before brewing and reducing the amount of sugar you use a little bit at a time. You'll like it barely sweetened in no time!

• You can roast your own beans with an old school popcorn popper.

• You can use temperature to regulate the amount of tannins in solution, meaning the lower the temp of your water, the less bitter your coffee will taste. I like the tannic bite so I tend to brew a little hot.

• Try some good quality local honey as a sweetener! Support local coffee roasters and apiaries (bee keepers)!

• You can easily calculate temperature with the following steps

1. Find a pot you're cool with using to heat water all the fucking time.

2. Heat 1 pot of coffee worth of water + a little extra for the grounds

3. Let it reach a full rolling boil, remove from heat and start a stopwatch on your phone.

4. Insert an accurate digital thermometer.

5. Wait for your water to get to optimal brewing temp. Stop the stopwatch. This amount of time is what you count to the next time you're waiting on the water to cool.

That's all I can think of. I'll probably add more in the morning after I have had... You get the picture.