Starbucks Via Ready Brew

I finally tried it last night. I really like it.

Seriously.

It was good. I’m kind of a coffee snob too. We grind our beans fresh & use a French press and boil the water to a specific temperature and  time the soaking time. I don’t like the way Starbucks brews their coffee at all. They seem to work to bring out all the bitterness in the coffee. Maybe Starbucks knows how to brew coffee right but they’re catering to the people who think that they’re getting more caffeine if their coffee is more bitter.

I like their beans and apparently I like their little instant coffee packets.

It’s not cheap. It ends up being a little less than $1 a cup but for camping and traveling and when you can’t bear to drink the coffee like substance that’s been burning in the office coffee pot for the last 2 hours, sometimes that $1 could be worth it. I feel like I need to go camping to give it a true test.

But I’m always looking for an excuse to go camping. I’ve been fantasizing about doing a S24O on the bike to the Finger Lakes National Forest or maybe Keuka Lake State Park.