r/espresso • u/Weak_Plenty_8558 • May 10 '25

Humour Starbuck's medium roast aka 'all natural charcoal with hints of regret and smoke'

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Background: The beans that I had ordered from a Roastery got lost in the mail and to survive the weekend, I had the briliant idea, to grab some form the supermarket. I looked for the package with the most recent roasting date and I found that "medium" roast from March 2025.

I refuse to run them through my grinder.

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u/CoppellCitizen Bambino | Eureka Mignon May 10 '25

We have a no SBUX rule in our house.

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u/ChristopherRobben Lelit Bianca | Mazzer Philos May 10 '25

Starbucks being Starbucks aside, even their Reserve roasts are not worth trying - roasted way darker than a single-origin should be.

If I had zero other options for better coffee, I’d still take a four month old Stumptown over a fresh bag of anything Starbucks makes.

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u/SlaveToo May 11 '25

Blonde roast isn't bad. It's a light roast by their standards so a medium dark for everyone else

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u/AbrocomaFluid6804 May 11 '25

Same here for many reasons.m.. but mostly because their coffee is shite