How is Starbucks Black Coffee Quality_ Which Starbucks Black Coffee Beans Are Best_ Starbucks Black Coffee Recommendations

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Before formally answering, let me repeat once more: Starbucks' coffee world is a separate system from the outside world. Starbucks uses its own brand influence and market advantages to establish a closed coffee dynasty. Here, traditional coffee is abandoned. How it's made, how it's tasted, what coffee is called—Starbucks redefines everything, all decided by Starbucks.

Coffee Introduction

This is Starbucks' coffee making process, let's analyze it step by step:

1. Coffee cultivation and procurement: As commercial beans, Starbucks' beans are considered to be of very high quality.

2. Processing and raw bean storage: On this point, as a giant, I believe Starbucks can do it very well.

3. Coffee roasting: Here comes the key point. Have you eaten sugar-roasted chestnuts? Which is more fragrant—freshly roasted ones or the authentic ones that are roasted, sent to a factory for plastic packaging, and then shipped to supermarkets with a 12-month shelf life? Starbucks' coffee is like sugar-roasted chestnuts roasted in Seattle, USA.

Premium coffee shops should roast their coffee on-site at the café. Starbucks' coffee beans are not only roasted half a year in advance and shipped by sea from Seattle, but they are also of the types shown in figures 14, 15, and 16 below.

Are you kidding me? They're all burnt.

Why do they do this? Because Starbucks sells espresso-style coffee with milk added.

2oz of espresso is mixed with 16oz of milk. To prevent the milk and sugar flavors from overpowering the coffee flavor, the coffee needs to be as 'strong' as possible. How to make it strong? Roast it hard, until it's oily, until it's burnt—then it's full of 'coffee flavor.' This might sound crude but the logic isn't, and it's not what I said—it's what David Olsen, one of the creators of this blend, said.

Summary

Let's summarize Starbucks' coffee and the hard conditions it needs to meet:

Consistent global taste. Not easily perishable. Has coffee flavor.

It should make people who have never drunk coffee take a sip and say, "Hmm, this Starbucks coffee is really strong!" Coffee that meets the above conditions must be: ordinary, not fresh enough, and dark roasted.

Coffee Making

How do coffee beans become the coffee in your cup?

Starbucks' common black coffees include: espresso, Americano, drip coffee, and pour-over coffee.

There are also French press coffee, French siphon coffee, and Clover coffee machine coffee, which are generally not accessible.

Conclusion

1. Okay, so it turns out that chugging Starbucks' espresso in one go is really just showing off. Because his espresso, from beans to roasting to freshness, is completely unprepared for direct tasting.

2. Drinking iced coffee is the same, though it really attracts attention.

3. Americano is even more worth mentioning, with its burnt flavor.

This is Starbucks' roasting curve. Almost all of Starbucks' weekly coffees use medium to dark roasted beans.

What is a roasting curve?

Starbucks found that most customers can only distinguish different coffee beans through the degree of coffee roasting, not through the flavor of the coffee itself, so they created a seemingly high-end game scenario called the roasting curve.

Starbucks Black Coffee Beans

That's right, what we're talking about here is black coffee, and Starbucks really isn't that good at it.

However, the espresso with that strong coffee flavor mentioned above is precisely the best choice for making various espresso coffees: such as lattes, cappuccinos, and caramel macchiatos.

Only this way can you get a rich taste in your coffee; it's just not suitable for chugging in one go.

So does Starbucks not have good black coffee?

Don't worry, now it's time to talk about: pour-over coffee

Pour-over coffee is the only 'more flavorful' coffee that 'customers can access' 'within Starbucks'. Pour-over is just a preparation method; when ordering, you can specify the coffee beans for the barista to prepare for you, with a unified price. If Starbucks didn't have pour-over, at least I might not drink it anymore. Currently, pour-over coffee is only available in select stores. Such stores have dedicated pour-over bars. In the city where the respondent lives, there are currently 26 Starbucks stores, but only 3 have pour-over.

There's a difference between pour-over stores and Reserve stores: pour-over is just a method of making coffee and can use any beans. Reserve stores, on the other hand, emphasize that some limited edition coffee beans are only available at this store, so they are more expensive. The way to distinguish them is: Reserve stores have a ★|R symbol on their door handles. R stands for Reserve.

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