Can we talk about how I swore off dark roasts for a decade because of one bad batch in Spokane

Rowan Hunt · 2026-09-20T20:20:04.931886+00:00

I grabbed a bag of dark roast at a cafe in Spokane back in 2016 and it tasted like an ashtray, so I wrote off the whole style for 10 years. Last Tuesday my neighbor pulled a shot of a dark roast on his Gaggia and handed it to me, and it was smooth with a hint of dark chocolate, nothing burnt at all. Turns out the roast date matters way more than I ever gave it credit for, so what's your go-to way to tell if a dark roast is fresh?

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