Coffee snobs' delight

Coffee and tea: two drinks that have been fueling humanity since the dawn of, well, mornings.

- SONJA BROWN

While both are revered for their ability to turn us from grumpy zombies into functional humans, they've somehow evolved into entire lifestyles – each one with more varieties, names and preparation methods than there are stars in the sky.

Once upon a time, you'd ask for a cup of Java poured from a pot and that was that. But coffee now comes in so many forms that you need a degree in linguistics just to pronounce half of them.

The black coffee drinker is the purist, the minimalist, the "no-nonsense" type. Their drink is as straightforward as they come. No cream, no sugar, no milk, no nonsense.