What Does Coffee Say About Your Personality (12 Types Explained!)

Our choice of coffee says a lot about us because what we have to choose from comes in such an astonishing variety of flavours, styles, and experiences. This means that how we indulge our taste is based on some very basic personality traits.

This article looks at the typical coffee drinker: what we drink, how we choose it, when we need it and (the most revealing aspect of all) what happens when we have to do without it.

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How do we choose our coffee?

 If we are enthusiastic coffee drinkers, we usually have very precise and very definite preferences about how we take our coffee, and we rarely deviate from them.

These choices certainly reveal our personality but they are also quite logical and straightforward and nothing to be concerned about. Our coffee choices are nearly always influenced by three things:

• What‘s going on with us all the time
• What’s going on with us at the moment
• What’s going on at the exact time we decide to have the coffee

What are some of the reasons behind our coffee choices?

Coffee choices are all driven by circumstance, and what we do in these circumstances also hold clues to our true characters.

Some of the primary reasons behind our choices include:

• Availability – once we have developed a taste for a barista made coffee, we become reliant on someone with the skill being available to make it properly. Our enthusiasm for our coffee can come over as demanding or even “picky”.
• Energy levels – our energy levels tend to flag at the same time (and in the same way) each day; we typically organize a routine around a reliable supply of our coffee. This attention to detail came be interpreted as rigid or driven.
• Daily schedules – the organized and efficient person will include coffee stops in their schedule and will prefer not to deviate from the schedule for this reason.
• Intensity of work conditions and responsibilities  – these all imply a need for caffeine energy, and because certain personalities choose particular jobs, the need for energy support will be a given.
• Emotional health – this refers to our basic emotional makeup and how much “extra energy” we need at any one time.

Some of the secondary reasons behind our coffee choices include:

• Availability – we often go places where the precise coffee style we need is unavailable.
• Physical health – might encourage us to avoid coffee products for a short period of time or to adjust how we enjoy them.
• Ethics –  can compel us to choose one product over another and to question how our coffee is served.

Some of the temporary reasons behind our coffee preferences include:

• Availability – our usual store is shut, has closed down, or has run out of our coffee bean.
• Energy levels – are temporarily depleted so we need a stronger brew.
• Current work commitments – are horrendous and so we rely on a stronger brew.
• Thirst and weather – can cause us to choose only iced drinks or only hot drinks.
• Emotional health  – can be quickly revitalized by a few extra doses of our favourite coffee.
• Deadlines – these can provoke an “overdose” of our usual espresso choice.

Do coffee drinkers ever change their brew?

We do change our coffee choices or adjust the way we enjoy our usual brew, but usually to achieve the same things

We will typically ask for a stronger version of our usual brew or, for health reasons, tinker with serving sizes, milk, sugars, creams, and/or caffeine intensity.

What are some of the typical coffee choices and personality trait partnerships?

Coffee styles are typically paired with particular personalities. Consider the following commonly ascribed partnerships:

• The black coffee drinker – strong, driven, serious, ambitious, efficient, moody, can be abrupt
• The cappuccino drinker – perfectionists, demanding, sensitive, like change, look for stimulation
• The instant coffee drinker – relaxed, careless, free, able to multitask, laidback but committed, not over mindful of health
• The espresso lover – intense, energetic, upbeat, focused, able to multitask, the most likely to over caffeinate themselves, enthusiastic, likely to over-commit, enjoy leadership  
• The iced latte enthusiast – energetic, focused, fussy, can be uptight
• The affogato fan – night owls who love the evening, solitary and who enjoy solitary pursuits, like sweet things, balanced, steady
• The mocha lover – playful, love sweet things, warm, love glitz, colourful, open
• Latte drinkers – comfort seekers, people pleasers, generous, social, open, honest, helpful
• Specialty coffee enthusiasts – health conscious, body aware, environmentally aware, serious, fit, sensitive, can be anxious
• Doppio devotees – intense, brooding, ambitious, intelligent, thoughtful, sensitive, can be hyperactive
• Macchiato fans – soothers, quiet, love the bitterness of things but able to tone things down, calming, individual
• Iced coffee drinkers – trendsetters, playful, energetic, spontaneous, bold, imaginative, can be reckless, not over-mindful of health

What happens to coffee drinkers when they can’t get any coffee?

You can tell a lot about yourself when you feel your personality changing because you can’t get access to your usual brew.

The organized coffee drinkers, the ones who rely on coffee for an intense and planned energy boost, are likely to state that they simply will not be able to perform whatever task, meeting, or deadline they are faced with.

The fact that they feel they cannot do what they actually have always done provides more clarity on personality than any preference for a fancy soy spiced latte variation.

Coffee drinkers who claim to need coffee just to get through a day are likely to experience withdrawal symptoms such as headaches and even mild depression.

Some coffee drinkers can become withdrawn, irritated, anxious, bad tempered, and experience the absence of coffee as an intolerable interruption to their day.

What do these personality traits tell us about ourselves?

All of these behaviours indicate a dependence on coffee and are typical characteristics of people whose lifestyles, work and social expectations are slightly higher than the energy they have to offer them.

Other coffee drinkers, however, such as the instant coffee drinkers and the healthier specialty coffees enthusiasts can survive quite well by temporarily switching their brew to a similar product or to a completely different beverage, such as a soft drink or tea, for example.