Starbucks tasting great

I am not sure it is possible IMO. Most into coffee and with decent machines would not even bother trying and would source fresh roasted beans.
I have a commercial grinder and a Fracino Cherub so speak with a certain amount of knowledge
 
I have a 40 quid Krupps grinder and an 18 quid Cafetiere and even I use my own blend of beans from The Algerian Coffee Shop.
I would doubt anyone spending £100.00's on coffee equipment would use Starbucks. The coffee is the most important bit, you can spend a ton of money on equipment but if the coffee is crap it will still taste crap.
 
I can't stand Starbucks coffee. It really is bad. I am currently using what by all assumptions should be pretty bad coffee beans. Why bad, well they are ASDAs finest that they use in there coffee shop, you wouldn't expect them to be any good. My son works for Asda and they got sent a box of coffee beans for the coffee shop, but they don't have a coffee shop in the store so they were sold to the staff. He came home with 10kg of beans for £20.00. It's not the best coffee I've tasted but it's actually a lot bet than I expected it to be.
 
^ What makes that Lavazza especially good is that since it is one of Lidl's one-off specials, they will have had stock brought in directly, so it should be very fresh compared to the usual supermarket Lavazza. Tends to sell out quick though; probably independent cafes buying it up.
 
I highly recommend the following company and if you buy a kilo at a time the price is excellent
Their Signature blend is good with milk and their Italian Job is cracking as espresso, if you like a bold flavour
http://ravecoffee.co.uk
 
My local (they do online sales as well).

http://www.northern-tea.com/buy-coffee-online.asp

Currently have their Indian Monsooned in my hopper, but I love their mountain delux.

Not cheap coffee, but I am definitely a coffee snob.
 
ollie9091 said:
I highly recommend the following company and if you buy a kilo at a time the price is excellent
Their Signature blend is good with milk

Yes I agree, Rave are great value. We had a kilo of Signature over Christmas and it was very tasty.
 
To be clear, I'm not a fan of Starbucks. This came up in conversation on the train the other day - the challenge is to work our way through the chains and big brands and see whether we could produce a decent drink on our home machines from their beans. We will be starting with Starbucks and I'm nervous (hence the OP), but following this thread will source the Lavazza from Lidl and won't worry too much about Asda either...
 
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