“The new drip coffee machines that Starbucks instituted mid this year are absolutely horrible! The coffee now is absolutely disgusting.”
A barista told me it’s now 200 degrees fresh from the machine. If you’re used to the old system where coffee was a good deal cooler you’ll either spray super hot coffee everywhere or scald your mouth. I’ve witnessed both.
I think they use low quality beans and roast the living hell out of them to cover it up. Then they serve it crazy hot, so I have to let it cool forever and I always miss the Goldilocks sweet spot.
But those beans.... the next day if I pass gas, it smells like burned coffee beans.
I like instant better. The Juan Valdez crystals from Columbia. A 3.5 ounce jar 5.48 at Walmart that makes 64 cups (a little less I suppose if you want expresso). That’s 8.5 cents a cup! Beats Starbucks all to hell....