Benchmarking the New Starbucks and Peet's Blends - February 2012By Kenneth Davids; Reviews by Kenneth Davids and Justin Johnson
When Starbucks, bowing to changing tastes in coffee, debuted two “Blonde” medium-roasted blends a couple of weeks ago, reaction among the blogging and tweeting cadres of coffee observers was predictable. One of our readers wrote that she didn’t want to bias us before we tested the new Starbucks blends, but for her they tasted like “cardboard and water.” She added that she would prefer to remain anonymous, however, because “Those Starbucks people are everywhere.”
Of course, the danger lies not in writing something...