On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:09:38 -0500, Graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Overroasted yes. Worst in the world? Hardly. If starbucks is the worst coffee
> you ever had, you are incrediblely lucky. Try any convenience store at 4pm
> where
> the pot has been sitting on the burner since 10.
>
>
Starbucks is pretty bad, made all the worse by the prices they charge,
and their snootiness ("the blend of the day is a Sumatran Arabica,
picked late in the season from the middle-third of the west side of
the mountain, where the late afternoon rays caress each bean... blah,
blah blah" - IT'S ALL CRAP!).
At 1/4 the price, I'll take the 7/11 stuff that's been sitting there
for 5 hours, thanks very much.
Seriously, Starbuck's problem seems to be that they always over-roast
their beans, so their coffee is always bitter. You can take the best
beans in the world, and if you burn them, they'll taste bad.
cheers,
frank
--
"Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
