On Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at 11:05:59 AM UTC-5, wrote:
On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 05:40:28 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:


To me, Starbucks regular coffee just tastes burnt. Maybe it's because it is burnt...

I am not a Starbucks fan either. It is just nasty. It tastes like that
coffee you find at midnight that was in the Bunn cooking all day.
I had a hard time finding a regular cup of coffee in New Zealand too.
It is all espresso there. We talked to the owner of a little
restaurant out in the country for a while and she said that was fairly
new and she was not sure why the whole country "got on the bandwagon".
She didn't like espresso either but that was what the market demanded.
She sold me a cup of regular coffee from her personal pot.

I rarely drink Starbucks coffee but I like the taste. I like really strong coffee, though. The pot my wife makes in the morning is just before overflowing the basket when it brews. She knows just how much coffee to use to keep the grounds out of the pot.

Some of the best coffee I've had was in Brazil and Venezuela. I brought a couple of kilos back from there. The East Indian girl that sits across the hall from me makes freshly ground French press coffee every morning. It's good too, just too "fiddly" for me to do it myself. That reminds me, I need to bring her a pound of some good beans.