Brewed Fresh Daily

Pippa on Coffee Snobs: So in the interest of continuing public service announcements, there is something I need to help some of you with. Starbucks� does not serve good coffee. Period. It is probably the worst coffee I have ever had. There is a REASON that you have to order a g*ddamned $8.00 venti latte with flavoring, and that's because their coffee sucks! I was entertained this morning by reading a blog (I'll spare the linkage lest I be accused of mocking again) that decried the use of styrofoam to serve hot beverages to go. I think that styrofoam would actually IMPROVE the taste of Starcrack coffee. I swear that their executives are laughing every day at their profits, knowing that countless lemmings are drinking swill just because it carries the Starcrack name. It's branding at its finest. Who knows? Maybe once upon a time in Seattle they DID serve good coffee, but by the time they made their way East, it was nothing but used motor oil. And I'm sure there are scads of people saying "Oh, you don't know good coffee." Well, hell's bells. I worked as a barista in a nice independent caf� which served coffee from an independent local roaster. Now that's good coffee. Try a local roaster and tell me if you still think that crack Starbucks is good coffee. A public service announcement from pippa reminding you to support your local coffee roaster and independent coffee shops.