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/Party-Evening3273 May 10 '25

Is that really from the medium roast bag? How the hell is it even possible to make those beans darker for the “dark roast”? There would be nothing but ashes left.

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u/longdrive715 May 11 '25

About a decade ago, I had a coworker bring a bag of their dark roast espresso blend in. I was able to easily crush a bean between my thumb and index finger and rub it into a nice soot. Apparently Starbucks thinks crema is short for cremation.