burnt coffee
Bitter charred beverage
Burnt coffee is coffee that tastes harsh, bitter, or acrid from overheating—whether from beans roasted too dark, water that was too hot, or coffee left too long on a warming plate.
The term is often applied loosely to any coffee that tastes unpleasantly strong or bitter: This diner coffee tastes burnt.
Some dark roasts deliberately push toward burnt flavors that devotees enjoy.
- bitterSharp, unpleasant taste
- bitter tasteSharp, unpleasant flavor
- acridUnpleasantly sharp-smelling
- charredBurned until black
- smokyFilled with combustion haze
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- burntcharred, scorched, singed, blackened, char
- Coffee mistakeswrong dose, sour taste
- undrinkablecontaminated water, toxic water, raw sewage, industrial waste, chemical runoff
burnt coffeelight roast
Beans heated briefly
medium roast · blonde roast · specialty coffee · craft coffee · single-origin coffee
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