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By fat_hens on Thu 15 of May, 2008 13:50 EDT

Say what?

Searching for adjectives to help describe coffee, I found a blog post with a nice starting palette for the budding palate on the Londonium Espresso Blog.
Aside from the rather common "nutty", "chocolaty" and "winey" the following I found compelling:
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Animal-like - This odour descriptor is somewhat reminiscent of the smell of animals. It is not a fragrant aroma like musk but has the characteristic odour of wet fur, sweat, leather, hides, or urine. It is not necessarily considered as a negative attribute but is generally used to describe strong notes

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Rubber-like - This odour descriptor is characteristic of the smell of hot tyres, rubber bands and rubber stoppers. It is not considered a negative attribute but has a characteristic strong note highly recognisable in some coffees.


I'll have to throw in some European spellings of words like "odour" and "tyres" to add some posh to my posts. I must say I'm jealous of the overall design of the blog!

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