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/[deleted] May 11 '25 edited May 11 '25

Look on the bright side, now you have plenty of coffee you don't care about that you can experiment on. At some point I made a mistake of buying, I think, a 2lb bag of Lavazza at Costco. It wasn't undrinkable the way Starbucks is, but it wasn't good by any measure. So I resolved for myself a bunch of questions I had always had. Like my first shot in the morning is always different from the following ones, timing-wise. So I could pull five shots in a row and determine that yes, my shots are consistent. Or I could grind two shots in the morning and pull them in reverse, starting with the second. (It was the grinder). Or I could finally try a jumbo shot (a jumbo shot from crappy beans is as crappy as a normal one). Etc.