I buy green coffee beans and roast at home (it's actually quite easy; a heat gun used for paint stripping can be combined with a flour sifter, and if you really want to get fancy, use an electric drill to turn the sifter :) ). The taste of fresh roasted (you have to let the roasted beans "air out" for a few days before you grind and roast) coffee is sooooo goooood! One thing I learned from this is, the darker you roast, the more flavor elements are lost (burned off and replaced by "carmelized" elements). This means that even old coffee can be dark roasted and it will taste fairly similar to fresh beans that are dark roasted. This is probably the reason Starbucks features so many dark roasts, and some people say "I don't like Starbucks coffee because it tastes burnt!". So I'm glad there is one more reason not to buy Starbucks! (we already avoided them because of their known "woke" culture)