Life Style / Coffee Glossary

Sound Cup: A coffee with no particular positive characteristic and without negative characteristics.

Sour: A basic taste characterized by solutions of tartaric acid, citric acid, or malic acid. The unpleasant acidity of a sour coffee cannot be confused with the natural acidity of some coffees in . . . View Full Definition

Soury: A primary coffee taste sensation created as acids in the coffee combine with salts to increase overall saltiness. Characteristic found most often in unwashed robusta coffees. Soury ranges fr . . . View Full Definition

Spanish Roast: Terms for coffee brought to degrees of roast considerably darker than the American norm: may range in color from dark brown (see Espresso Roast) to nearly black (see Dark French Roast) and i . . . View Full Definition

Specialty Coffee: Practice of selling coffees by country of origin, roast, flavoring, or special blend, rather than by brand or trademark. The term specialty coffee also suggests the trade and culture that ha . . . View Full Definition

Specialty Coffee Association Of America (Scaa): An important and influential association of specialty coffee roasters, wholesalers, retailers, importers and growers headquartered in Long Beach, California.

Spicy: An aromatic sensation created by a slightly volatile set of hydrocarbon compounds in coffee's aftertaste that produces sensations reminiscent of either wood-spice (cinnamon) or wood-seed (Clove).

Stale: A taste fault that gives the coffee brew an unpleasant taste. Result of moisture and oxygen penetrating the bean fiber and adversely affecting the organic material that remains in the coffee . . . View Full Definition

Steam Wand: The small protruding pipe on most espresso machines that provides live steam for the milk-frothing operation..

Stewed: A taste of coffee infusion that has been heated after cooling and lost its initial aroma.

Stinker: A coffee with no particular positive characteristics and without negative characteristics.

Straight Coffee: Unblended coffee from a single country, region, and crop.

Strawy: A taste taint that gives the coffee bean a distinct hay-like character. Result of the loss of organic material from the green coffee beans while in storage, occurring in the aging process af . . . View Full Definition

Strictly High-Grown: Highest grade of El Salvador coffee.

Strictly High-Grown Washed: Highest grade of Haiti coffee.

Strong: Coffee giving a pungent impression in the cup, rich in flavor. Developed by roasting or having a consistent mouthfeel.

Sulawesi: Single-origin coffee from the island of Sulawesi (formerly Celebes), Indonesia. Most come from the Toraja or Kalossi growing region in the southeastern highlands. At best, distinguished by f . . . View Full Definition

Sultana Coffee: The dried husks of the coffee cherry. Common to dark roast coffees that are pungent due to bitter replacing a sweet in the taste modulation ranging form creosol to alkaline.

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