I'll join this merry company. ;)

You drink instant coffee? Even the good instant coffee isn't very good.

You drink it black! If you don't you just like sugar and fat, not coffee. Just like people who like milk chocolate like sugar not chocolate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxqU5XvS7Gg

No, I don't drink instant coffee. It has no effect on me. I drink normal coffee, which leaves stuff on the bottom of the glass.

I don't drink coffee myself, but Will Smith over at Tested.com loves coffee. Which means they test coffee and coffee-related products now and then. Like the Aero Press, which he uses all the time it seems.

Yes, coffee made by the Aero is less bitter. More importantly, you can get by with a cheap blade grinder since it is more forgiving with the grind quality.

Heard many good things about the Aero Press, but some bad ones too. Check the negative online reviews as well as positive ones. Some of them seem legit.

On a side note, if you want to remove some of the bitterness or acidity from your coffee, I've found a good way. I put raw cacao bean pieces, maybe half a teaspoon, in the bottom of my cup. Cacao being what they make chocolate out of, which I guess most people know, but whatever. Anyway, it performs some kind of minor miracle in that regard and makes coffee much smoother. It doesn't really lend much of a chocolate taste, as the beans are very hard and they stay whole.

I leave them in for cup after cup, and when I'm done with my coffee for the day I eat them, since they're supposed to be quite good for you (antioxidants and help with blood pressure). They don 't taste great, but who cares, it's not like they taste terrible. (But they do taste worse straight out of the bag.) But whether you eat them or not, they're a cheap way to make your coffee taste much more mellow and smooth, and the chocolate taste is so mild you might not even notice it.