POLL: STARBUCKS or COFFEE BEAN?

Jamaican Blue Mountain, ground from beans, by me, at home. Too expensive for Starbucks or Coffee Bean to offer.

Never been to a Coffee Bean and Starbucks, to me, has to be the worst example of over roasted/burned coffee I've ever had the misfortune to have tasted. Bought a cup, once, took a sip and asked the counter person how long it had been sitting around. He told me it had just been brewed, so I told him he could have mine to drink. I left and never went back.

Sorry for the long story/answer, I just can't stand Starbucks excuse for coffee.

Starbuck's

Coffee Bean. Starbucks serves some of the lowest quality coffee available. They have the highest dud bean count of any major coffee brand (that makes it lower quality than even Folgers or Maxwell House.) When you get a blend, anything that's not marked 100% Columbian or something like that, they use mostly cheap Vietnamese coffee beans. Vietnamese beans are the most acidic beans, and much much less flavorful than their S. American counterparts.

To cover up for the lousy flavor of their beans, Starbucks roasts their beans really dark. This makes people think they're getting more caffein. Dark roasting actually gives you less caffein.

Virtually every coffee shop has better coffee than Starbucks, and while you may like Fraps, that's an idea that's caught on with other coffee shops, too, so you can probably find similar drinks elsewhere.

Starbucks

Starbucks

I like Starbucks for their coffee but Coffee Bean for there mixed drinks.

I prefer Starbucks, but when I NEED caffeine, Seattle's or Coffee Bean or Tea is ok too, whichever is closer to where I am.

starbucks

starbucks cuz i like their latte and other speciality drinks

None... try a small non-corportae coffee/tea house... you'll do the world and coffee and tea growers a favor