Lifestyle / Coffee / Musty: An odor taint giving the coffee beans a moldy odor. Result of fats in coffee beans absorbing organic material from molds on or in contact with the coffee beans during the drying process. Often the result of insufficient or proper drying and aging.
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Musty Noun Synonyms: mouldy, damp, mildewed, mildewy, sour, rancid, spoilt, decayed, rotten, putrid, fetid or foetid, fusty, stale
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Lifestyle / Coffee / Sumatra: Single-origin coffee from the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. Most high-quality Sumatra coffee is grown either near Lake Toba (Mandheling, Lintong) or in Aceh Province, near Lake Biwa (Aceh, Gayo Mounta MORE
Lifestyle / Coffee / Timor: Single-origin coffee from East Timor. At this writing East Timor is in turmoil as it moves toward independence from its huge, enveloping neighbor, Indonesia. Timor coffee was a classic origin in the e MORE
Life Style / Wine / Corked: A tasting term used to describe wines contaminated by trichloroanisole (a corked wine is not one with bits of cork floating in it). This chemical compound is the product of mould infection in the cork MORE