What kind of coffee powder tastes good at Starbucks? experience of Starbucks VIA Columbia concentrated baking

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After drinking and buying Starbucks VIA Italian baking, I recently went to Starbucks again, this time to try Starbucks VIA Columbia, and tried the espresso roast flavor of daily selection coffee (today's coffee). Below, let me share my experience with you.

Before drinking Starbucks VIA Italian baking feel good, basically no sour taste, mellow taste is quite good, and at the end of the lower temperature, there will be a little caramel taste. But this time I ran into Starbucks VIA Colombia, and when my partner gave me a drink, I didn't feel so good. My feeling is that the sour taste is more exciting, but there is no way to show more meticulous, soft acidity. Therefore, I decided not to buy Starbucks VIA Columbia for the time being, but to have a daily selection of coffee (today's coffee) this time.

However, this time, under the explanation of my partner, I learned another knowledge about VIA. That's when my partner told me that Starbucks VIA instant packets can flush out 180cc's coffee liquid at 2.3g (usually it should take about 10g of coffee powder to extract this amount), and the trick is that they grind it very finely. From this picture, we can see that the leftmost jar is normal coffee beans, the rightmost jar is generally ground coffee powder, and the middle jar is VIA powder. This comparison shows that the grinding degree of VIA powder is obviously finer.

Later, after asking my partner, I learned that my daily selection of coffee (today's coffee) was concentrated roasted coffee beans. After drinking a small cup, I thought it tasted good, so I decided to order a small cup to drink. Starbucks' daily selection of coffee (today's coffee) does not have small cups on menu, but hot today's coffee can still be made as long as it is specially told by the waiter. The capacity of the small cup is 8oz, about 240cc, only 60 yuan, and you can add milk for free.

Concentrated baking sounds scary at first, but I think it's to my taste. Starbucks' series of deep-roasted coffee beans (concentrated roasting, Italian roasting, French baking) are basically sour because of their deep roasting. Although I do not reject the soft sour taste, but if it is a strong coffee mellow taste and sour taste to compare, I will prefer mellow taste. The concentrated roasting of the daily selection of coffee (today's coffee) feels mellow enough, but the bitterness will not be too prominent, the taste of all aspects will reach a right balance, and when the final temperature is relatively low, you can still feel the sweetness of caramel!

If you are really not used to it, sugar, cream, vanilla powder, cinnamon powder and other seasonings are available in the store and can be added at any time according to your personal preference. It's just that I really think that the concentrated roast sheet of the daily selection of coffee (today's coffee) is delicious, and there is no need to add these things. By the way, in the caffeine scale provided by Starbucks, the small cup of selected coffee (today's coffee) contains only 60 milligrams of caffeine, which does not seem to be as high as expected.

If you have a device for extracting coffee liquid at home, it seems more cost-effective to buy coffee beans directly and brew them yourself. With the price of 350 yuan for a bag of concentrated roasted coffee beans, 25 cups of coffee can be brewed, and without considering the cost of coffee utensils, a cup of coffee costs only 14 yuan.

During a random stroll around the store, I found a description of Starbucks's Love Earth Project, to the effect that Starbucks would buy coffee beans at a more reasonable price and meet environmental protection standards. and the concentrated baking I drank this time is just one of the coffee beans that meet the Love Earth Project.

At Starbucks, you can enjoy a nice cup of coffee for only 60 yuan and absorb the knowledge related to coffee. You can probably only buy a daily selection of coffee (today's coffee).