Dark roast coffees have a strong flavor. It can grow on you, but at first blush
it does taste bitter. If Starbucks' coffee was so awful, they wouldn't be
selling so much of it.
> 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
>
