There are all types of snobs in the world. And in the realm of food and beverages is where you will find the bulk of snobs. For example, you have the beer snob, who would never be caught drinking a mainstream beer like Coors or Budweiser, just like the whisky snob would never sip their small-batch brand from the wrong type of glassware. But no snob is more outrageously self-righteous than a coffee snob, and we don’t mean that is a negative sense. If you love coffee, and many millions of us do, there is nothing more unsatisfying than a cup of mediocre coffee. Now, if you suck down the occasional cup of coffee at work to get through a deadline or chase your egg mcMuffin with a cup of McDonald’s coffee, then move on with your boring life and skip this post entirely. But if you refuse to drink the swill brewed at your office and would never order coffee from a fast food joint, then you should read on because you may indeed be a coffee snob. Besides the fact you can distinguish between African coffee beans and Central American coffee, here are other signs you are a coffee snob.

It is one thing to have a regular coffee shop you visit on a regular basis, but you are definitely a coffee snob if you have a regular barista. Your regular barista not only knows your usual order but knows precisely when you will arrive to pick it up, almost as though there is a connection between the two of you that borders psychic. Beyond this metaphysical connection you share with your barista, you two also share the same tattoo.

This goes without saying, but a true coffee snob would never be caught dead in Starbucks. That is unless you draw the short straw and have to pick up the coffee order for the morning marketing meeting. And yes, all the names on the cups will be misspelled.

You are a coffee snob if you pack your own coffee supplies when you travel, even when heading to our in-laws house. You are a serious coffee snob if you pack your own coffee supplies when you attend your children’s parent/teacher conference.

If your coffee vocabulary goes beyond latte, espresso and macchiato, then you may very well be a coffee snob. If you are familiar with the terms lungo, ristretto and straight shot, then you are definitely a coffee snob. Also, if you are constantly correcting people who mispronounce espresso, then you are a coffee snob and probably not very popular among co-workers either.

If you only succumb to an iced coffee when the temperatures reach triple digits, then you are a coffee snob.

Lastly, you are a coffee snob if it takes, at least, six various apparatuses to brew your morning cup of coffee, not including the actual coffee maker.

Raise your hand if you are a coffee snob.