It's official that Starbucks is coming to DCA

[lk2500]

Coffee if a matter of choice. I didn't like Starbucks way back in the beginning, when they started in Seattle. Their coffee is over roasted for my taste. My feeling has always been that they cover inferior beans by cooking the hell out of them and hoping we'll just think it is 'strong' which it isn't, just burnt. I totally admit to being a coffee snob though. I don't like Nescafe better, but I don't think it is any worse than Starbucks if I'm honest. When we travel we travel with a coffee pot and our own coffee because we are that picky. I was hoping they put a smaller company in because Starbucks takes over wherever it goes in. We recently stayed in SF at a hotel that now uses Starbucks and I resented having to leave in the morning to go out and get coffee (it was only one night and it was SF so we didn't take our pot) to have with our breakfast. I can't stomach Starbucks at all anymore.

I'm curious to know what your coffee travel gear is, is it packable for airline travel? What type/brand of brewer/grinder/beans do you use?

 

[Huff]

Since Starbucks we now have kids eager to get their 'coffee' fix. Starbucks made the ultra sugared coffee drinks common and trendy and thus popular for teens and even much younger.

Starbucks at least here have become teen and yuppy (gads, they're back!) hangouts. I'll stick to the less trendy but far superior coffee houses where I live. For chain coffee houses I love Tully's or Dutch Bros. Better coffee and better atmosphere.

 

[ArchOwl]

Since Starbucks we now have kids eager to get their 'coffee' fix. Starbucks made the ultra sugared coffee drinks common and trendy and thus popular for teens and even much younger.

Starbucks at least here have become teen and yuppy (gads, they're back!) hangouts. I'll stick to the less trendy but far superior coffee houses where I live. For chain coffee houses I love Tully's or Dutch Bros. Better coffee and better atmosphere.

Don't get me wrong, I love our Dutch Bros, but it doesn't really have atmosphere.

 

[lk2500]

Since Starbucks we now have kids eager to get their 'coffee' fix. Starbucks made the ultra sugared coffee drinks common and trendy and thus popular for teens and even much younger.

Starbucks at least here have become teen and yuppy (gads, they're back!) hangouts. I'll stick to the less trendy but far superior coffee houses where I live. For chain coffee houses I love Tully's or Dutch Bros. Better coffee and better atmosphere.

It's all going to come down to location, taste, and opinion. I live in the Northwest where there's truly a Starbucks on every street corner. It's not frowned upon or looked down on. Tully's is the same, never heard anybody say anything bad about it.

And teens drinking it in moderation can't be much worse than fast food and pop drinking. Abuse of any of the above is bad if done at unhealthy levels.

 

[Teki]

Im excited about Starbucks the way I see it if its replacing nestle Disney will now have good coffee and bad coco where as before they had bad coffee and good coco, but now I can replace coco with candy coffee

 

[larina]

I'm curious to know what your coffee travel gear is, is it packable for airline travel? What type/brand of brewer/grinder/beans do you use?

We travel with a Braun coffee maker with a stainless steel thermo pot (keeping coffee hot on a burner brings out additional carcinogens so we stopped using coffee pots with traditional heating elements). We generally use an organic Mexican coffee (from Whole Foods) that we grind daily, but we grind ahead of time for traveling. We splurge on my dad's favorite Jamaican Blue Mountain every now and then, but at over $20 a pound, it's more of a gift or treat than an every day thing. The pot is not small or travel size. We mailed it to PPH when we stayed there. We pack it for our bi-monthly trips to Pismo Beach and our girls trips to the Bay Area.

 

[lk2500]

We travel with a Braun coffee maker with a stainless steel thermo pot (keeping coffee hot on a burner brings out additional carcinogens so we stopped using coffee pots with traditional heating elements). We generally use an organic Mexican coffee (from Whole Foods) that we grind daily, but we grind ahead of time for traveling. We splurge on my dad's favorite Jamaican Blue Mountain every now and then, but at over $20 a pound, it's more of a gift or treat than an every day thing. The pot is not small or travel size. We mailed it to PPH when we stayed there. We pack it for our bi-monthly trips to Pismo Beach and our girls trips to the Bay Area.

Cool, thanks. Do you happen to have the model # on that Braun or maybe a link on Amazon do you?