Starbucks Ground Coffee Bag, Pike Place Roast, Medium Roast Coffee, Ground 100% Arabica Coffee, Notes of Cocoa & Rich Praline, 12-Ounce Bag (Pack of 2)

I am a coffee aficionado, and as time has gone on, I find I prefer a stronger taste in my coffee. I have tasted every kind of coffee, but find I always go back to Starbucks. Pike Place Roast has become my favorite. Sometimes I alternate between Sumatra and Pike Place, but Pike Place wins out every time! It has a taste of cocoa, with roasted nuts in its flavor. It has a smooth finish with soft acidity. This has become the roast I have, all the time. Satisfying with enough depth and flavor to please. I have been tempted at times to buy a Keurig type coffee maker, but discovered that I would be paying on average $50 a pound for the coffee found in those little Keurig cups. The price for a pound of Pike Place Roast is $12.99. I found this recipe for making good coffee from Starbucks a few years ago, and this is the one I use 'til this day. Recipe for great coffee 1.Use cold, filtered water and a clean machine. 2.Grind beans just before brewing: *Course for coffee press *Medium for automatic drip 3.Measure 2 tbsp (10 g) ground coffee for every 6 fl oz (180 ml) water. To help preserve that fresh flavor, keep this bag sealed tight in the bag. Highly Recommended. prisrob 02-11-12 Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul The Starbucks Experience: 5 Principles for Turning Ordinary Into Extraordinary

As two other reveiwers have experienced (as of 19 April 2012), I received an Amazon order of the Medium Roast vice the Dark Roast that was pictured at the time of the order. Shame on me; I read one of them prior to my purchase, but dismissed it as something unlikely to happen again, to me. Since then the product description and picture have been changed reflecting what I received, both on the item page and in my order history. I find the fact that my order history doesn't reflect what I ordered troublesome. I am currently overseas (FPO box), limited in coffee options, and wasn't perturbed enough to contact Amazon about this. I am overall greatly pleased with my track record with Amazon, and especially the Free Super Saver to FPO boxes and typical 1-week delivery. On to the coffee. My daily consumption is 3 mugs in the morning and maybe an afternoon pick-me-up. My favorite standard is in-shop, perfectly brewed Dunkin Donuts. Black. I enjoy the complexity of most Starbucks, but find them on the verge of being too bold for a staple. Or maybe it's the prices. I do buy a bag every now and then, though. I have mixed success brewing grounds or beans in hopes of recreating what you get in the shop. Large (BJ's, COSTCO) bags are usually stale mud two thirds of the way down, so I won't buy those any more despite the bulk discount. I purchased this because PP Dark (what I thought I was getting) is my favorite in-shop Starbucks. This PP Medium is pretty good, although I've had less than usual success in making the correct brew. Huge improvement over Folgers or Maxwell House, a notch above Eight O'Clock (which is always very good compared to the price), but well shy of my best home recreations of shop coffee (to include successful Dark Pike's Place attempts). I suppose I am comparing it to what I expect from Starbucks (BOLDness), and this has much less bite. Definitely cheaper/better than what I can get locally, though. Bottom line: 3.49 stars for pretty good Starbucks coffee at a good price. I'm trying to not figure the misrepresentation into the rating of the product.

Only a Starbucks Blend can tame the heart of a Step mother, and Pike Place Market Blend does the trick. She is a black coffe drinker with defined taste for medium to strong. She has had a few straight cups from a local starbucks where she lives but they aren't convienent. Now at her home she can enjoy the roast with the most. Delivered early and in perfect shape. Great coffee. Thanks for making her day!

The only reason why it is not a 5 star is that the expiration date was just a few months away from the time I got it. If you buy it in the store it is usually at least a year out.

Awesome taste and excellent price!! Highly recommend!

not as good as I would have hoped. It's the only one I drink when I'm at Starbucks in the states but doesn't come out nearly as good when brewing here using electric coffee maker here in Afghanistan and I have tried 3 different ones and playing around with the amount of grounds to use. Just substandard. Will not order again

The coffee pictured here is the DARK ROAST that was sold in their first store in 1971, and is still being sold in the Starbuck stores today. The coffee that I received is the MEDIUM ROAST. There is a vast difference. The packaging mine came in had a rendering of a Starbucks store in UT Burnt Orange on a white background on the front and the left side of the package was solid Burnt Orange with the three different roasts listed: Blonde, Medium and Dark. On the front was the Starbucks logo in green and white and beneath that in large Burnt Orange letters: MEDIUM ROAST. This obviously is not the dark roast that is sold in the stores and pictured here. It is just flat, very bitter coffee. I have a package of ground Pike Place coffee in my freezer right now that was purchased at a Starbucks store for $13 and change. It looks exactly like the package pictured here and it tastes entirely different. I could only take a sip or two of the coffee I received - it is very bitter. There is no hint of almonds or chocolate. Amazon says this cannot be returned, but I received something that was different from what I ordered and what is pictured and I would like a refund or a replacement. If Amazon corects this mistake, I will update this review. REVIEW UPDATE 1.8.12 I spoke with Amazon Customer Service and they graciously agreed to either refund my money or send a replacement.

Have bought this for years, but this time I bought it, it had NO flavor. I kept looking at the package and thinking is this Pikes Place coffee? It's terrible! (I come from Seattle, so I know this product well) Tasted like dirty tap water. Won't buy anymore as it is pricey and a small amount to boot. Bought some McCafe for $5.99 for a pound and it was Fab! Am switching.