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Starbucks Premium Instant Coffee, Dark Roast Coffee

Try the smooth and delicious taste that’s stirring up instant ground coffee. Starbucks Premium Instant Coffee is what a cup of instant coffee should taste like.

8.5 /10
★★★★☆ Highly Recommended Overall Score · 80% expert / 20% community Ranked #759 of 1193 (Top 64%)
Our Coffee Score 8.3
Coffee Lovers Score 9.4
Overall Ranked #759 of 1193 (Top 64%)
Ground Coffee Ranked #173 of 200 (Top 87%)
Our Coffee Score Ranked #819 of 1193 (Top 69%)
Coffee Lovers Ranked #110 of 1193 (Top 10%)

Our verdict: Ranked #168 of our top 200 ground coffee — an outstanding dark pick with dark chocolate, chocolate, bold notes, earning a 4.7★ average across 4,922 Amazon ratings.

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Key facts

Roast
Dark
Origin
Multi-region blend
Process
Roasted
Size
3.2 oz
Price / oz
$8.89
Best for
Iced, Instant

Flavor notes

Dark ChocolateChocolateBoldSmooth

The Coffee Score review

Try the smooth and delicious taste that’s stirring up instant ground coffee. Starbucks Premium Instant Coffee is what a cup of instant coffee should taste like. Our team spent hands-on time with the Starbucks Premium Instant Coffee, Dark Roast Coffee to see how it holds up against the rest of the ground coffee we've tested.

Across repeated sessions we evaluated it on the categories that matter most: quality, consistency, value, and how likely we are to reach for it again. Ranked #168 of our top 200 ground coffee — an outstanding dark pick with dark chocolate, chocolate, bold notes, earning a 4.7★ average across 4,922 Amazon ratings.

Try the smooth and delicious taste that’s stirring up instant ground coffee. Starbucks Premium Instant Coffee is what a cup of instant coffee should taste like. Starting your day off right is as easy as stirring this delicious premium coffee into hot or iced water and enjoying. Each tin of Starbucks Dark Roast Premium Instant Coffee makes up to 35 smooth and delicious cups.

From the roaster

  • PREMIUM INSTANT COFFEE: Enjoy the Starbucks coffee you love at home with 3 tins of Starbucks Dark Roast Premium Instant Coffee—scoop your way up to 105 cups of oh so delicious instant coffee
  • BOLD: Starbucks Dark Roast Premium Instant Coffee is a bold coffee—dark and complex with depth of flavor, featuring delicious notes of dark chocolate
  • EASY TO PREPARE: It’s easy to make a smooth and delicious cup of instant hot or iced coffee—simply add instant coffee, pour water, stir and enjoy premium-tasting instant coffee at home
  • CRAFT IT YOUR WAY: Starbucks Premium Instant Coffee lets you adjust how much coffee you add, so you can instantly stir up a cup, just the way you love it
  • HOT OR ICED COFFEE: Enjoy your coffee your way—brew it hot or over ice for a refreshing pick-me-up. Add your favorite coffee creamer for a personalized touch, or enjoy balanced, black coffee for a satisfying sip any time of day

What we liked

  • Strong overall Coffee Score of 8.3/10 — ranked #759 of 1193 (64% percentile).
  • Distinct flavor profile: Dark Chocolate, Chocolate, Bold, Smooth.
  • Community agrees — a Coffee Lovers Score of 9.4/10 from 4,922 ratings.

How we graded this coffee

Mass-market brand Grading framework
Taste 40% weight 9.8
Freshness 20% weight 8.6
Bean Quality & Sourcing 15% weight 8
Value 15% weight 4.2
Roast Quality 10% weight 8.5
Our Coffee Score (experts, 80% of overall) 8.3/10

The Coffee Lovers Score

Averages 4.7★ from 4,922 verified Amazon shoppers.

5 star 82%
4 star 11%
3 star 4%
2 star 1%
1 star 2%
  • CO Verified purchase ★★★★★

    Great taste/value/convenience

    I’ve been purchasing this for over 4 years now and the quality has always been fresh and excellent!

    12 found this helpful

  • 1 Cat Mama Verified purchase ★★★★★

    The best instant coffee!

    Best instant coffee ever! It dissolves quickly and taste fantastic. I couldn't really believe this was instant coffee when I drank it.

    2 found this helpful

  • Bernard Shakey Verified purchase ★★★★★

    It's As Good As The Hype

    I love this instant coffee that tastes like brewed coffee. The only problem is that it's so easy and quick to make I drink it all day long! You get around 35 cups of coffee for about $10, which comes out to less than 30 cents per cup.

  • William Carr Verified purchase ★★★★★

    Got Exactly what I wanted.

    This is a topshelf instant coffee,its Starbucks rt! Its dark roast(its Darrrkk baby!).

    1 found this helpful

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