As you may know, it was recently announced that Keurig would start carrying Starbucks K-Cup Coffee! For those of you who have a K-Cup brewer or love Starbucks Coffee this is a very exciting time. In this review we will see if the K-Cup French Roast gives us yet another reason to be excited about this new partnership between Starbucks and Keurig.

Starbucks K-Cup Coffee is Here

I have been acquainted with Starbucks for quite a while now and I am extremely familiar with the flavor of their coffees. I also have tried my fair amount of K-Cup Coffees over the past 2 years (Over 200 Flavors).  And with this much history tasting  Starbucks and K-Cup Coffees I had my preconceived notions about what this mash-up might taste like. I was, in all honesty, imagining something between a Starbucks pre-ground coffee and Starbucks Via.  My notions, as demonstrated in the of House Blend, could not have been more wrong. This new found partnership between Keurig and Starbucks is going to have a profound effect on the coffee industry. I am very interested to see what will happen not only within Keurig but in the coffee industry, as a whole, as a result of this partnership.

Starbucks K-Cup French Roast

As I brewed this up in my, Breville K-Cup Brewer on a 5 oz setting , I could smell the aroma dark chocolate, grapefruit and smoke. The slurp brought a surprising grapefruit acidity with a dark chocolate aftertaste. It does have a campfire (ashtray) quality to it that would no doubt be cleaned up by a little bit of cream, if that’s how you roll. The ashtray (burnt tobacco)  flavor is very much in the background but is present in the coffee. Based on this first tasting Starbucks K-Cup French Roast could easily be one of my favorite K-Cup Coffees to date. I am hesitant to say it is in my Top 10, because I was only sent one sample, but it is definitely recommended for a dark roast coffee enthusiast.

Starbucks Keurig French Roast

Dark chocolate, grapefruit with burnt tobacco.

Overall Rating

8 out of 10

Aroma: 7
Acidity: 7
Body: 9
Flavor: 8
Aftertaste: 7

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