Starbucks Peru Chanchamayo Review
The Drink: Starbucks Peru Chanchamayo
Type: Whole Bean
Overall Rating: Three Out Of Five Coffee Mugs
I drink a lot of Starbucks, but most of the time I stick to the calorie filled sugary deliciousness like the Dark Cherry Mocha latte and the Caramel Macchiato. I don’t drink a lot of their coffees and I haven’t for several years now. Their coffees are just roasted to dark for me, but I was hoping that the Peru Chanchamayo would make me change my mind.
I had high hopes for this coffee, it had a medium label, however, a little investigation on their website revealed that the label means medium flavor, not medium roast. If I needed anymore proof, the bag was littered with burnt chaff from the beans. However, I wasn’t ready to give up yet. It may be a dark roast, but I wasn’t ready to write it off…yet.
The aroma gave me hope. It was lively, a delicious nutty flavor with hints of spices, like basil…maybe?
However, the taste crushed my hopes. It had a distinctive dark roast flavor that over ran the taste. It didn’t taste burnt like some Starbucks coffees, but the flavor was kind of plain like it had been roasted out of the bean. The only flavors that I was able to pick out was a mild nutty taste and a hint of a woody flavor around the edges. The after taste turned a little darker and was almost bitter.
Overall, the Starbucks Peru Chanchamayo earned an average three out of five rating on the Daily Shot Of Coffee scale. It wasn’t the worse that I’ve had from them, but I’ve had better.
I know there’s a lot of people that love dark roasts, but Starbucks please make some lighter roasts for the rest of us, I promise it won’t hurt.
What do you think of Starbucks coffee? From talking to other people online and off, I’ve heard a lot of a demand for a real medium or light roast.
Thanks to Cate.TV for providing the sample bag of coffee.
—
Category: Coffee Reviews
About the Author (Author Profile)
Mike Crimmins is the highly caffeinated blogger behind Daily Shot Of Coffee. Besides drinking way too much coffee, he's obsessed with the Yankees and getting dirty on his mountain bike.Subscribe
If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to receive more just like it.
Loading ...
Aww that’s a disappointing review. I have found the Peru to be quite nice from the Clover. And in my opinion, the lighter-roasted coffees tend to bring out the tea-like qualities of a coffee, but I want my coffee to taste like coffee. You didn’t mention how you prepared it? Clover, press, pour over, drip brewer?
.-= Melody´s last blog ..Upset customer complains to @Starbucks about name/drink/face recognition technology in gold card =-.
Yeah, I have to agree, I was disappointed by the coffee because a few people suggested that this would be the Starbucks Coffee that would bring me back to trying their coffees. However, any tea like qualities were definitely roasted out. I wish it was with a clover, this was with a french press.
Mike; totally agree with you on this.
over the top roasting doesn’t work for me.
in retrospect, this may be why i am more a plain coffee
drinker, even an extra amount in the brewer coffee strong drinker,
than an espresso fan
it just isn’t my favorite
the over roasting seems to be the one thing
i can point to as distinctively not enjoyable.
i do like the concept of a strong coffee punch
in a small amount of coffee …maybe that’s why
i occasionally order an after dinner espresso
and drink it anyway.
I agree with you a lot Howard!
It’s funny, because I can’t tolerate any acidity at all in a coffee any more. And the lighter roasts seem to be so acidic. Sour even. Not much into nuttiness either.
I don’t taste any burnt flavor flavor in any of the very dark roasts I buy. Interesting.
.-= Dave Doolin´s last blog ..Writing About Money on Easter Sunday? Yes! And here’s why… =-.
This one really didn’t have much of that kind of acidicness. What I was talking about here was the flavor of the coffee. I’m definitely going to have to make that more clear in the future.
You’re definitely buying the right dark roasts then!