How come there is no real “wacky experimentation” side of the coffee community? The only one I can identify is the “snobby” coffee community (you know the one), and the rest being mostly just a refrained version of that.
Compare that to the homebrewing community, you have the snobbs (the mead community is infamous), but then there are the “prison hoochers”, turning anything containing sugar into alcohol.
Where are the mavericks who perform the important societal task of discerning if “is coffee and cheeto-spice a good combo?” and “what happens if you brew coffee with red bull?”
On a more serious note it would be great so more people try different ways to spice coffee, instead of just trying to brew the flatest, “perfect” brew. I’ve found adding some fruity black tea to my coffee in a French press to work really well.
I started experimenting with brewing coffee by tea rules to make it silkier without adding milk (mostly lower temp / longer brew), and that worked so well I kept importing more and more practices from the tea side of the caffbev world.
Anyway, nowadays I drink my coffee with cheap orange pekoe blended with no coffee, brewed for 5 minutes. Oat milk optional.
I believe this to be the far bold horizon of coffee drinking.
I was halt expecting this to end in cold-brewing the coffee, but importing the best of the two major hot nature juice worlds is quite wholesome and thus an acceptable substitute!