ABSOLUTELY.
Starbucks is just the fucking worst coffee. It completely tastes burned. I don't get it. My damned wife makes that shit (or similar) at home too. Gotta make 2 pots on the weekends so we're both happy.
This will provide fertile testing ground for my upcoming Starbucks lawsuit:
Too much burned, not enough coffee.
I should clarify for those that may not get it: I am actually referring to the taste, which, for Starbucks, is predominantly "burned," and not the physical act of being burned by coffee.
It never fails.
I'm going to argue that the reasoning behind this is that they put a pot of coffee on first thing in the morning ... and then the crowd comes in and all they order are these sugar-laced drinks that are far from coffee. It's mostly milk and sugar, maybe some tea? Definitely not coffee. The first person to order a normal coffee is probably 3 hours after they put the pot on. My 'go-to' on the road coffee is panera. Haven't had a terrible experience there yet.
"Lite on the ice please".
Problem solved.
But yes, it sucks that a Iced Coffee is basically 3 drinks of liquid and a jug of ice.
Agree with Panera coffee. That is my go-to coffee as well when I pick something up. Starbucks coffee tastes burned even if you brew it at home. They just really roast the piss out of their coffee beans. Some people love it, but it just tastes burned to me.
if you go to starbucks to buy straight up black coffee you're doing it wrong.
Yeah, it's the roasting and doesn't have anything to do with the age of their pots.
The burned coffee roasting is the center of their original popularity, which is the "technique" that they essentially stole from Peet's coffee.
Thereby confirming that Starbucks isn't really coffee. That crap is terrible. If it doesn't taste good black it's not worth drinking.if you go to starbucks to buy straight up black coffee you're doing it wrong.
Thereby confirming that Starbucks isn't really coffee. That crap is terrible. If it doesn't taste good black it's not worth drinking.
I stopped reading after "latte".
that's simply espresso with milk. If you are suggesting there is some appropriate additive to make black coffee tolerable, then I would like it here what it is if not milk.
I gave up on all that stuff. I hardly even drink soda anymore. Black coffee (hot or cold) and beer. I figure all the calories I save from the sugary drinks can be saved for beerpeople should be going to starbucks for the stuff they can't make at home - iced tea drinks & ridiculous espresso based drinks.
you ever try making a trenta fizzio passion tea lemonade at home? it's a fucking pain in the ass AND it's expensive as shit with sodastream machines.
a latte is milk with espresso; a macchiato is espresso with milk.
and you drink black coffee black, like a man.
These days, drinking it black is now becoming that hipster shit that thrives with places like Philz--I have to taste all of the hints of burrow ass that carried these beans from the lowlands of Colombia to my cup! no thanks.
yeah but Phils got that ridiculously awesome iced mojito coffee. how the fuck do they do it, I have no idea but that damn thing tastes like magic.
wtf dude.
Think I'll go brew some "Artisian IPA" now. For sure to make millions...Yeah, it's the roasting and doesn't have anything to do with the age of their pots.
The burned coffee roasting is the center of their original popularity, which is the "technique" that they essentially stole from Peet's coffee.
To me it's the same as the IPA phenomenon--a process largely eschewed as pedestrian and cheap, masking real technique, even though it has its own unique, perhaps even mildly pleasant quality to some specific tastes. It becomes popular with the least common denominator because it effectively masks poor technique in a universal, easily replicable manner. Re-brand it is "fancy" and you have now profited by convincing dummies that a cheaper, amateur technique should be considered premium.
Go figure.
When I do go there and order a latte, those fuckers default to putting goddamn fucking foamy whipped cream in there.
WHO THE FUCK DOES THAT?
im not shocked this happened
when I do go someplace and order an ice coffee or even a soda I always ask for 1/2 the ice they normally put in, ive been doing this for like a decade
hey man, on a hot day that shit is awesome. of course, I only drink that after I get real coffee, because there is no caffeine in that iced mojito thing.
LOL, people are such wimps today. Just ask for light on the ice, it's not that hard.