# Does Starbucks spike their coffee? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 20, 2018, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-starbucks-spike-their-coffee/821647 "2018-09-20T18:10:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2018, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-starbucks-spike-their-coffee/821647/21 "2018-09-25T15:39:42Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#): > > Does Starbucks even make drip coffee? I thought everything there was based on espresso. They have regular drip coffee. Usually they have two or three big thermoses of it ready. Regular coffee be lost in the every expanding milkshake menu at Starbucks. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2018, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-starbucks-spike-their-coffee/821647/22 "2018-09-25T16:17:12Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#): > > Does Starbucks even make drip coffee? I thought everything there was based on espresso. Yes. Their regular coffee is their single most-selling item. That said, that is in a sea of a lot of drinks. But that’s all I ever order there. ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2018, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-starbucks-spike-their-coffee/821647/23 "2018-09-25T20:17:03Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > So does Starbucks use more coffee per ounce of water than other coffee houses? Is that why their coffee has a bitter, almost burnt taste? I don’t find this to be true of other coffee chains like Seattle’s Best, nor at independent coffee houses. Starbucks roasts their coffee very dark. Just as when you roast anything till it gets very dark at home, this greatly increases the risk that some bits of it will be burnt. ETA: Right now I can’t figure out how to not sound like I’m talking about roasting something till long after sundown. You know what I mean. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-starbucks-spike-their-coffee/821647/24 "2018-09-26T03:04:25Z")
> [@DavidwithanR](#): > > Starbucks roasts their coffee very dark. Just as when you roast anything till it gets very dark at home, this greatly increases the risk that some bits of it will be burnt. Starbucks has long been known for over-roasting their coffees, which is what gives them their “burnt” taste. Or at least used to. I don’t find the current blend (Pike’s Place) particularly burnt flavor, but if **nelliebly** finds it so, it was much worse before that. They introduced Pike’s Place about, I dunno, 10 years ago, in response to these complaints. Of course, the people who were used to and loved Starbucks regular “Bold” blend complained that the new roast was weak and flavorless. At any rate, that’s still their current standard blend and roast, AFAIK, and it’s definitely mellower than what they used to serve by default. There’s also an even mellower “blonde roast.” It’s not a true blonde roast, as far as I understand it, as it is roasted to the second crack, but it’s their mildest offering. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-starbucks-spike-their-coffee/821647/25 "2018-09-26T03:33:55Z")
> [@UDS](#): > > Choc syrup is mostly sugar. Yes, **BUT HE DIDNT SAY HOW MUCH.!** ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-starbucks-spike-their-coffee/821647/26 "2018-09-26T14:21:33Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Starbux also loads their “mochas” with a tonne of sugar and fat. That might have had up to 500 calories. > > So yeah they do put more sugar than you do. “Tonne?” Your location field says San Jose. Is that the one in Cabo San Lucas? ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-starbucks-spike-their-coffee/821647/27 "2018-09-26T15:30:19Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Yes, **BUT HE DIDNT SAY HOW MUCH.!** Jeeze…looks like someone has had too much Starbucks coffee! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-starbucks-spike-their-coffee/821647.md?page=1)