Archives: Glossary Terms

Onan Ganjang

A locality in North Sumatra within the greater “Lintong” growing area, as well as a local cultivar.: Onan Ganjang is

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Orange

Orange

Orange aromatics and flavors are prized in coffee, whether they take the form of sweet orange flesh and pulp, or

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Organic

Grown without the use of artificial fertilizers, herbicides, etc.: Organic coffee has been grown according to organic farming techniques, typically

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Organoleptic

Organoleptic refers to any sensory properties of, in this case, the coffee beverage. It involves flavor, color, odor and mouthfeel.

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Origin

In coffee talk, it refers to a coffee-producing region or country; such as, “I was just at origin.” Of course

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Outturn

An outturn is a term used in East Africa to describe a dry mill “batch” from a particular estate or

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Pacamara

As the name implies, Pacamara is a large bean cultivar, a cross between Pacas and Maragogype with unique flavor properties.

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Pacas

A mutation of Bourbon cultivar that appeared in El Salvador in 1949: Pacas is a natural mutation of Bourbon cultivar

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Pache

Pache is a mutation of Typica cultivar that orginates in Guatemala: Pache is a dwarf mutation of Typica coffee first

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Panama

Panama coffee ranges from medium quality lower altitude farms to those at 1600 – 1800 meters centered in the area

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panela sugar natural raw sugar colombia

Panela

Panela is the minimally processed sugar with floral and vanilla accents: Found in Colombia (and noted to be best in

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Papilla

The mushroom-like projections on the tongue that contain taste buds.: Papilla (or Papillae in plural) mushroom-like projections on the tongue

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The Parainema cultivar with its elongated cherries at a small farm in Honduras.

Parainema

Parainema is a hybrid with some disease resistance developed in Honduras by IHCAFE (Instituto Hondureño del Café). It is related

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Parchment

Green coffee still in its outer shell, before dry-milling, is called Parchment coffee (pergamino). In the wet process, coffee is

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Past Crop

Refers to an older coffee not from the “New Crop” or the “Current Crop”. Cuppers will even use it as

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Peaberry

A peaberry is a green coffee “bean” that has a rounded form: Coffee is the dried seed from the fruit

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Penagos Demucilage mill at San Marcos MicroMill

Penagos

Penagos Hermanos is a Colombian company that produces demucilage coffee processors. This is a forced demucilage machine that uses little

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Percolator

A type of coffee brewer where water is “percolated” through a mass of ground coffee to extract the flavor. :

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Peru

Peruvian coffees have Central American brightness but in a South American coffee flavor package overall. The good organic lots do

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Phenols

A compound in coffee that at high levels contributes to negative flavors, but can have positive aspects as well: Phenols

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a sample coffee roaster froaster from pinhalense

Pinhalense

A Brazilian coffee equipment manufacturer, that produces a wide range of equipment for wet-mills and dry-mills, coffee hullers, density sorters,

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