CVIC coffee was bad on GW as well. The ISC would pile new grounds on top of old ones instead of replacing them, which only made the coffee bitter. I always hopped over to the flag mess to get my coffee.
When I was on TR I was prepared. I took my own beans and grinder (was CVW-8 staff then, so no flag mess access).
For context, I came from Whidbey Island (where there there was an espresso stand on every corner and we had Seattle’s Best Coffee in our hangar), so I was definitely a coffee snob.
This is why you never let somebody who doesn’t drink coffee make it for everybody else.
In the propulsion plants, the coffee pots in the Reactor Rooms, Main Machinery Rooms, and Central Control are all powered from the vital lighting power, so even if we went dead in the water, there would always be coffee. And the divisional LCPO’s of all the various rates put together a list of who in the department was allowed to make coffee when on watch or in the plants, and who was not allowed within 10’ of the pots.
For good reason.
During C2X in 2003, I walked into CVIC and noticed my coffee mug was empty. I motioned to the CVIC office coffee pot and the ISCM nodded that I should have some. I poured myself a generous serving and took a liberal sip.
Then I said, “I love good coffee…What is this?” 
… and walked away.
In SUPPLOT, which was my domain, IS2 Baldwin was the only person allowed to make coffee that I might drink.
There’s a reason I refer to most Navy coffee as black tar filtered through a dirty sock. 
I’m STILL trying to figure out how Black Rifle is making money, since that’s basically their model for how they make their roast their coffee.
With a name like “Black Rifle” I’d assume they filtered water through gunpowder.
That’s an accurate description of how their coffee both smells and tastes.
Leaning hard on that technical experience, Baldwin left the Navy to play Jack Ryan in the Hunt for Red October. (Or so I’d like to imagine it.)
You should have gotten a grinder and some fresh beans, it’s the best coffee experience you can get if you don’t want to make it yourself!
Coffee’s for closers!
Would you be allowed to take a small coffee press onboard? Of course, one of those contraptions that blows steam and froths stuff at Starbucks seems like it would be real easy to plumb into the reactor steam loop…
I took a French press to use from time to time. Of course, once your stash runs out and you haven’t gotten mail in a few weeks, there’s only so much you can do when left with only the boat Folgers.
Ooh… You really, REALLY don’t want to do that.
This stuff will give you the worst case of artificial Montezuma’s Revenge you could only imagine in your worst nightmares:
You know, the way you phrase that strongly implies someone did try exactly that lol.
Uh? Wot is dat?
Diarrhea.
Oh… Sh!t.
Exactly… !!!
Shipyard strikes again, in this case.
Not my ship, but another of the class, maybe GW or Ike, had the shipyard confuse the vacuum drag line from the chem addition tank with the RAR coffee pot potable water line. Luckily they figured it out after only a few days of watch teams getting the runs.
I mean… Mission accomplished? Nobody fell asleep on that watch…