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Starbucks Morning Joe Coffee Review


[spoiler title=’Click here to read the transcript.’ style=’default’ collapse_link=’true’]- Hey welcome to Coffee, Coffee, Coffee, your place for average Joe coffee reviews. And today it’s time for your morning Joe! So here with another Starbucks coffee review – Yeah, we’re on a roll. – Call me butter, ’cause I’m on a roll. – Okay. So, we are doing Starbucks Morning Joe which is supposed to be stout and refined. – Like Guinness beer. – Yeah. And it’s a dark roast. It is formerly known as Starbucks Gold Coast Blend. They named it after a Chicago neighborhood but then they changed the name. – Yeah, they don’t care too much. – Yeah. So, it’s a 12 ounce bag, 100% Arabica coffee. The beans come from several different places though, Indonesia, Latin America, and it’s got some of their dark Italian roast in it too so, which– – Wherever those beans came from. – Yeah, that’s not from Italy but that would be their Italian roast is in there. So, it’s a lot of different ones to kind of blend together to be this roast. So, it’s supposed to be like, you know some people like a more subtle flavor in the morning, but this is supposed to be more of a stout, like if you like flavor in your coffee. – Punch you. – Yeah, you really need a punch in the face in the morning, This is the coffee for you. So, yeah, so the dark roast which I tend to like. – That’s true, we haven’t had this yet. – No, we haven’t – We’re gonna try it here for the first time live on YouTube. It’s not live. – It’s not live. It’s pre-recorded. – Unless you’re in our dining room right now with us. – Yeah, but you’re not. – So. – Right before I wanted to– – Over the lips. – I don’t know. I always love the smell of Starbucks coffee even when I don’t particularly like the roast, I do like the smell. It’s got a good, strong smell. Okay, let’s try this. I gotta say, I like this. – There was a thing that it said on there, that called it syrupy. – Oh yeah, it did say syrupy, I forget to read that. – And when I read that, I’m like, if I want syrup in the morning it’s not in my coffee. – It’s on my pancakes. – Unless it’s the kind of syrup that they talked about on Elf. – Oh goodness. Yeah, so, I like this. I really like it. It’s well, it’s stout but it’s not bitter. It’s rich. I like it. – Yeah, when I read this description I said, I’m not gonna like this. – Yeah, yeah. I don’t want a thick, syrupy– – Yeah. – Coffee. – Yeah, when I saw syrupy I was like, syrupy. I mean like, I don’t want that. – But actually you know, and I’ll see of course, as I get further down the the cup but. – Yeah, it’s good. – I’m learning that now I like, I can pretty much tell when I first start to drink it if I’m gonna like it or not and it’s good. – Yeah I really it’s, yeah, it’s just a good balance of flavors. There’s nothing, I mean, it’s just enjoyable cup to me, I’m already like half way through this huge mug. – Madame. – Big lips. – Yeah. – Yeah, I’m surprised. – Yeah, I am too. When I read the bag I really didn’t think we’d like it but it is good stuff. Highly recommend. How many, well actually let’s talk about price. Again– – She bought it. – I bought it on sale at Publix for like 6.99 a bag. I think. But normally it’s like eight to nine dollars a bag. It kind of depends on where you get it. You can get deals other places but yeah, so, it’s a higher price point but I think it’s worth it. – Yeah. So, out of five doughnuts, I would give it– – Maybe a four. – A four. A strong four. Maybe four and a half. – No. Four. – Okay. – Four. – Okay. – With these half things. Four and a quarter doughnut. – I’m just more precise, that’s all. – One thing we will check and see what kind of rewards we got on our thing. Can you peel it off? Is that how that works? – I don’t think it’s like a, a scratch off game. – No I know. – I think it’s just like they give you points. – What does it say, inside? – Inside, it’s like. – Inside, oh. – There we go. – Maybe it’s inside the bag. – Yeah, it doesn’t tell you. You have to put it in online but, I do have the app. – You remember the days when cereal boxes had the toy in it? – Yes. – You open it up and you’d dig your hand through all the cereal and you get out the prize. – Yeah, they should do that with coffee. – I know, you dig your hand through all the grounds. – Yeah, maybe coffee is prize enough though. That’s what they think. – That’s true. – So, one thing we’ve definitely found out doing these reviews and everything is that, brands, sometimes you have like a good solid brand that’s like, you just like everything. It’s a good high quality coffee, you kind of like everything that they’ve done but, sometimes there’s just one, one, you know, roast that you don’t really like and it’s not that the brand is bad, it’s just that, in case you’ve tried Starbucks coffee in the past, and you’re like, I don’t like it. It might just be that you didn’t like the roast. So many times we found, like, well we really love that roast but we didn’t like that one. – Yeah and that was one of the reasons why we started this channel, is so that we could remember what we tried and what we liked, and didn’t like, and why we liked it, and all that kind of stuff. – Right. – So hopefully that’s helpful to you too, to be able to say, yeah, I get now why I like that and this, and that. Or, you can just keep track of it on our website. – Right, yeah, yeah. – So, if it’s helpful to you, let us know. If not, let us know, and if you’ve tried this coffee before and you like it, didn’t like it, put it in the comments below. Get a conversation going about it. – Yeah, we like to see a consensus, is it good? ‘Cause everybody has an opinion but if we can see kind of the overarching everybody likes it or, not as many people do, we’d love to know. – Yeah, alright well, thanks for joining us and until next time. – Keep grinding! – [Narrator] Hey, thanks for watching our reviews. Please be sure to subscribe and check out our other reviews here.[/spoiler]

Review Recap

Brand: Starbucks
Roast: Morning Joe (formerly Gold Coast Blend)
Price per pound: $9.32
Flavors we detected / other notes: Stout, not bitter, nice coffee flavor, really enjoyable.
Overall rating: 
Would we buy it again? Yes

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