Caribbean coffee

Thanks a lot beyondcelery! I knew there has got to be something out there.
And thanks for catching my mistake, it was unintentional--I did mean chicory.

The only thing I can think of is the Cuban shot: espresso that's pulled through a portafilter that has demerara sugar added. The sugar caramelizes from the heat of the espresso machine as the shots are pulled and the end result is an espresso with an added caramelly sweetness. I've also seen plain raw sugar used. It's delicious espresso, but you won't always find people willing to pull shots like this because the caramelized sugar can harm the portafiler and grouphead of the espresso machine, especially if it isn't cleaned properly immediately after pulling the Cuban shot.

PS--In New Orleans, chicory, not hickory, is added to coffee. Although the thought of hickory-smoked coffee is interesting--might be just the drink with your hickory-smoked bacon at breakfast!

It could be that it's the type of coffee grown in the Caribbean that you like, rather than a style of coffee brewing. Perhaps you drank coffee made from good-quality Jamaican Blue Mountain beans--that is a mild coffee that could be very appealing. There is also a certified coffee--bird-friendly coffee--that the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center and National Zoo has been promoting for quite a few years now. It is basically organic coffee harvested from trees that grow under the canopy of taller trees. It is also called shade-grown coffee and is generally recognized as an environmentally good way to produce coffee beans.

For clarity's sake and with intentional simplification, you could say that Italian coffee has the beautiful crema on top, Turkish coffee is boiled in a it's special pot, served in demitasse cups and almost always leaves a sediment on the bottom, and American coffee for the most part is relatively watery drip-method coffee. In New Orleans you'd get hickory in your coffee and in France you often get a dollop of whipped cream in your cup. I just got curious as to whether there exists any established Caribbean coffee tradition, such as cane sugar only, or, yes, rum served by default or on request, that isn't an outlandish barista trick or a trademark only.

The only time I can remember a reference to "Caribbean Coffee" it was to a drink made with a shot of dark rum.

As for Jamaican beans, well, let's just say "tastes vary". The best JBM is clean and very mild; most of what is sold is something else entirely.

There are certain coffee beans grown in the Caribbean e.g Jamaican Blue Mountain among others, I am not sure that there is a special preparation or method but I could be wrong. I know that a cup of Caribbean coffee is a cup of coffee brewed with coffee beans that were grown there. I have been on vacation in Jamaica and the coffee I was served was Jamaican blue mountain prepared in a french press they served it with sweetened condensed milk rather than cream and sugar.

Could you maybe give us some more clarifications on what drink you're thinking about? Turkish coffee is called Turkish due to the grind and the pot, but we are unfamiliar with any method of Caribbean coffee — there is such thing as a Caribbean mocha, but not drip coffee per se.