So I was walking around the ACME Supermarket a few weeks ago and I wanted to get some new coffee. Specifically I wanted to get a Medium Roast coffee. And the reason I wanted to get a medium roast... CAFFEINE.
Normally I get Dark Roast, because I like to have something that will really give me a punch and wake me up. Because Dark Roast has more caffeine in it....
Or so I thought.
To my surprise, as I read an article about types of coffee on the Internet, contrary to what I thought, the darker the roast the less caffeine is in it. Whoa. Mind-blown. Because I did not know that. I don't know... for some reason I just assumed the darker it was the stronger it was and therefore the more caffeinated it was. But apparently not. But that wasn't really a big deal to me... because I actually was discovering that most of the dark roast coffees I was trying really did taste like cigarette smoke. So, I was excited to try something new. So I went to ACME and browsed through the medium roast coffee. I specifically looked at the Starbucks brand coffees. I saw many traditional ones, like original, or breakfast, and such. But then my eye was caught by the more 'exotic' ones. And my eye first locked onto Starbucks Medium Pike Place Roast. Now, obviously that doesn't really sound exotic, but it's exotic in that it's not a simple name like Traditional or Original or Breakfast Blend :) So... I grabbed it.
A few minutes later I was home with it and getting it ready in my French Press, which—thanks to Julia—I now prefer over automatic drip coffee, though I usually use the latter more often, just because it's honestly simpler. But when I have time I will use the French Press. So, a few minutes after that... I was sipping the best coffee I had ever had in my whole life. Seriously... I don't know that I will ever buy another coffee again.
Okay, maybe I won't go that far. Because admittedly I have not tried the other Starbucks medium roasts. So... maybe there is one even bettererer!
Whoa... I think brain juice just droozled out of my ear at the that of that possibility.
Hey Joe! Like you, I brew my Pike Place in the French Press. I found your post while searching for "pike place coffee cigarette smoke" to see if anyone had the same experience I do - it seems like this coffee has a strange aftertaste of cigarette smoke. But, I see you were describing *other* coffee! Interesting.
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