In Italy people have used [moka pots on the stove](https://images.app.goo.gl/nPmY5mmoXoUXuyUh8) for a very long time, but nowadays I’d say 50% of people own an [espresso machine](https://images.app.goo.gl/Y1qtygFpoG3sozX26), but many only use moka pots. An average Giuseppe usually drinks espresso 3 times a day, at breakfast (often substituted by cappuccino), at 10 am and after lunch. Espresso is always in a tiny cup, and some people like it with a splash of milk.
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Finland (rating at the top of coffee consumption): I’d bet money the most common one is still a drip coffee maker. A Moccamaster can be found in many offices and homes. It’s pretty much the default choice.
It takes a bit of dedication to go for an espresso machine, while they’re not rare. And some people buy ‘cartridge machines’ that have those small single use cartridges. Only real coffee afficionados grind their own beans.
Also: the people who drink their drip coffee with milk or cream, do it regardless of time of day.
Most common is is probably the good old [drip coffee machines](https://gzhls.at/i/67/01/1336701-l0.jpg). The machines are cheap and very low effort. Coffee isn’t great, but drinkable. It gets real bad if people use the reheating function.
[Fully automatic machines](https://gzhls.at/i/03/77/2390377-n0.jpg) that grind beans and everything are also quite common, but can be expensive. At least you can choose between a espresso, or a weaker coffee.
There are three ways, that are common here, imo.
Turkish coffee is the most simple one and my favorite. You boil water in a special pot called džezva (cezve in Turkish), remove the pot, add spoons of finely ground coffee, mix with a spoon, add the pot back on the flames so it boils again an makes a foam at the top, then it’s ready to serve. This procedure may vary with different people. No milk or sugar, if you ask me.
Then there are moka pots, or cafeteras, this is for those who like turkish coffee, but don’t like the feel of coffee grains suspended in their drink to come into their mouth, etc. It is very watery imo and kinda bland, but a lot of people like it. Usually you add milk to this coffee, or cream, sugar is optional.
Then there are espresso machines, that make those tiny portions of coffee, so hard on the stomach, you need to eat first or drink water after it. In cafes, Melange is nice, kinda fancy and with lots of foamy milk, similair to cappuccino, which is also nice. I just don’t bother at home to prepare it, and don’t have the machine.
Until maybe 20 years ago, I knew coffee mostly from moka pots. But my papa’s an italianophile and my mother’s grandparents lived in Napoli as expats, so…
The other variant is filtered coffee. We never had such a machine at home, but I knew it from when I visited other people or my parents’ office.
Instant coffee used to be very popular too… Often even made not from coffee but cichoria.
Then came Nespresso and the hipsters and suddenly everybody either has a capsule machine or an real coffee machine.
In my circles, the moka pot is very popular in the field, like when camping or on construction sites.
Personally, I like Balkan-style coffee very much.
Espresso (bica).
Double espresso (bica cheia)
Ristretto (italiana)
Latte (galão)
Ireland. Probably instant coffee with milk. Our tea culture, on the other hand…
In Germany, filter coffee is the most popular variant, either black without additives or with milk and sugar.
Cappuccino, Latte macchiato, Café au lait and Espresso follow by a wide margin.
At home, because of my Danish gf, we drink coffee from the Stempelkande. In English, called French press, the Danish coffee is considerably stronger and more bitter, but this is unusual in Germany.
The cheap and easy way is Neska – just pour hot water on it and add milk. And then ala Turk but the cheap way, just pour hot water on those coarse grinds. Yep, what I just said. We drink it with those grinds in.
But some people might use dzezva. But not very common we just pour hot water on it. I love Turkish coffee so I learned how to do it.
Moka pots are fairly popular for at home. Seen some french presses around. Fancy people get those Nespresso machine. But like fancy people because it’s not cheap.
In cafe shops is very Italian style Expresso, cappuccinos, lungo and so.
For milk we sell those tiny milk cups. Or for fancier version Maresi, more like thicker milk.
Your obvious expectation is probably Turkish coffee but from my experience it is not that common. People (often women) like fortune telling from coffee. Other than it we consume it in family gatherings.
Filter coffee is a common way to drink coffee among people who are in their 30s. Finally, Starbucks have a significant influence on Turkish coffee culture. We are second most starbuckses in Europe after only the UK.
Tea on the other hand is another story…
The norm is a [filter coffee machine](https://tuhat1.ee/566-large_default/kohvimasin-severin-ka4479.jpg), what americans call drip coffee.
Wokplaces have either a [fully automated Jura machine](https://ee.jura.com/-/media/global/images/home-products/e-line-2020/e8-eb-dark-inox-15364/e8_eb_dark_inox_15364_packshot_reddot_21.jpg), if they’re fancy, or just a [french press](https://ee2.pigugroup.eu/colours/803/680/0/8036800/presskann-600ml_original.jpg) in the drawer, if they’re not fancy.
The most common is Turkish coffee as excellently described by u/chunek. The next most popular is instant soluble coffee. Things like French press and drip are recently coming into fashion, but are still rarely used.
Drip coffee is by far the most common way. Most other methods exist to some degree, sometimes even within the same household.
It is either served black or with milk. I only rarely see anyone use sugar.
It is usually consumed 3–5 times per day; for breakfast, 9 o’clock break, after lunch, and for the afternoon coffee (similar to afternoon tea). Some also drink it in the evening after dinner.
Mostly drip coffee and then you can make a distinction between buying ground coffee or grinding it yourself.
Coffee machines with pods are also popular. Of those Senseo is most used if you go by availability in shops. Then Dulce Gusto and Nespresso. Instant coffee is for emergencies (when you forgot to buy proper coffee). A minority may have an espresso machine.
France loves the “petit café” which is close to an Italian espresso, also served in a tiny cup but made with 100% arabica beans (espresso can be 100% arabica or any mix from arabica and robusta beans). This is not about quality, just about the typical coarse and dark roast, preferred in Italy.
We – our family – own an alarming number of Italian Mocca machines but we have also bought espresso machines in recent years, and we drink four to six cups each per day – it’s just our drug ;o).
A “petit café crème” – the French espresso variety with a drop of cream – is often called a “noisette” (hazelnut) referring to the color. So four people might order “trois cafés et un noisette” in a bar. VERY often that drop of cream is charged extra: a café might be 1,30 €, a noisette is 1,50€.
PS: my preferred café is Costa Rica Arabica, made (torrefied) by a small family coffee roastery in our town. And I refuse to drink those capsules and pads.
Until the early 90s moka pots were certainly the more common.
After that filter coffee or drip machines started overtaking them.
Righ now capsule machines must be overtaking drip machines.
I don’t think I ever saw a personal expresso machine.
In most of the country it is basically just coffee put into water, and cooked until boiling. Another user from Slovenia wrote more about this here.
In the Littoral region we use moka pots (“kafetera”).
Keep in mind that we are talking about coffee made at home here – in bars it is different. Also, I would say “capsule machines” are not that rare here.
In the UK unfortunately instant coffee is still the most popular, but “real coffee” is also very popular and the most popular way of making it is with a cafetière.
Personally I use a Moka Pot on the stove if I just want a cup, and a cafetière if I want more. I don’t drink instant coffee.
I also have a Nespresso machine for espressos. They’re quite common here too.
We have a DeLonghi bean to cup machine, I tend to drink ‘coffee’ which is a more Northern European coffee, but also love Espressos from it. We also have Nespresso machines (Boo hiss, Nestle! Boo!) in the bedroom and office.
Unfortunately, at work, I have to drink instant coffee, which is very much the norm in the UK, I make a couple a day when there, but always regret it…
Netherlands: drip machine is most popular, but is becoming for the older people. Senseo used to be very popular but nespresso is gaining quick. In cafés next to espresso machine slow drips are becoming more fashionable too.
Drip coffe maker is by far the most popular method. Capsule machines like Nespresso is pretty popular, and some use pourover. Kokekaffe (boil up water, add coffee grounds directly to water, wait until grounds has sunk to the bottom) is popular over a camp fire or in cottages without electricity. Instant coffe… exists I guess, probably mostly in cottages or boats etc.
Denmark here.
Just a guess but based on observations.
– Drip coffee machine
– french press, especially the Bodum version
– Nespresso capsules
More and more get either semi or full automatic espresso machines.
Personally i do espresso or Hario V60.
At home older generations mostly make Turkish coffee with džezva using ground coffee. Younger generations make instant coffee, usually Nescafe 3in1 (colloquially called “Nes”).
Interestingly, if you order Nes in cafe shop you’ll actually get an instant cappuccino (usually Franck Cappuccino).
But in café shops most commonly ordered are espresso (“kava”) and cafe latte (“bijela kava”, literally translated “white coffee”).
I’d say it’s a mix of drip coffee machines, [Senseo coffee makers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senseo) / [Nespresso coffee makers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nespresso) and those fully automatic machines that grind the means for you as well. As for the way Dutch people consume coffee, I’m mostly seeing people drink just black coffee, cappuccino or “koffie verkeerd” (basically our version of café au lait).
At home instant coffee is the king. It’s cheap and easy to make. Drip coffee machines, capsules, and espresso coffee machines are widespread but not even close to instant coffee. Moka pots, Turkish coffee and other methods are for coffee enthusiasts mostly.
If it’s a coffee to go or a coffee in a restaurant, then it’s cappuccino. The most popular coffee drink in Russia.
Soluble coffee or Turkish coffee (hope Google translate this right, because I have no idea how it should be). Drip coffee machines are pretty common in middle class families, yet I don’t think that they’re dominant. As a student I just straight poured a boiled water into a cup with a ground coffee, which is also somewhat common way for lazy people.
I use a V60. But Czechs are more inclined to use coffee machines if they’re available to them (most indoor workplaces will have a coffee machine). If not then they’re fine with instant coffee.
Slovenia is quite a lovely crossroad of all types of coffeemaking from neighbouring countries
The most common is the Balkan way, brought to our former southern compatriots by the Turkish Empire. You have a small copper pot into which you mix water with ground coffee that you then put onto a stove on a medium fire until it boils, then you pour it in a cup and drink it. Usually, they leave behind residue, which can be problematic, since it’s extremely bitter if you drink it by accident
Our Italian friends to the west did introduce the moka pots, which are especially common in the western parts, which has a lesser Balkan and stronger Italian influence
The third (and imo, more boring) way is via instant coffee and espresso machines with capsules or coffee beans and stuff. Never liked that, not sure why. Regardless, 90% of cafes use these machines, usually of Italian origin.
Some people also use Austrian or German drip coffee machines, although that’s pretty rare.