Latte: Espresso and steamed milk with a thin layer of foam on top about ¼ inch thick.

Macchiato: Espresso with a dollop of foam on top.

Mellow: A full, well-balanced coffee, implying low or medium acidity.

Mocha / Moka: A coffee bean from Yemen; also a drink combining coffee, milk, and chocolate. The coffee, also called Arabian Mocha, Yemen, or Yemen Mocha, takes its name from the ancient port of Mocha. It is the world's oldest cultivated coffee, distinguished by its full body and distinctively rich, winy acidity.

Monsooned Coffee: Coffee deliberately exposed to monsoon winds in an open warehouse to increase body and reduce acidity.

Mouth feel: The tactile sensations coffee produces on your palate. How a coffee "feels" in your mouth.

Nippy: A secondary coffee taste characterized by a predominantly sweet, nipping sensation at the tip of the tongue. Caused by a higher-than-normal percentage of acids being sour.

Nose: The sensation of the vapors released from brewed coffee as they are exhaled while swallowing. Ranges from caramelly to nutty to malty.

Macchiato: Espresso with a dollop of foam on top.

Mellow: A full, well-balanced coffee, implying low or medium acidity.

Mocha / Moka: A coffee bean from Yemen; also a drink combining coffee, milk, and chocolate. The coffee, also called Arabian Mocha, Yemen, or Yemen Mocha, takes its name from the ancient port of Mocha. It is the world's oldest cultivated coffee, distinguished by its full body and distinctively rich, winy acidity.

Monsooned Coffee: Coffee deliberately exposed to monsoon winds in an open warehouse to increase body and reduce acidity.

Mouth feel: The tactile sensations coffee produces on your palate. How a coffee "feels" in your mouth.

Nippy: A secondary coffee taste characterized by a predominantly sweet, nipping sensation at the tip of the tongue. Caused by a higher-than-normal percentage of acids being sour.

Nose: The sensation of the vapors released from brewed coffee as they are exhaled while swallowing. Ranges from caramelly to nutty to malty.

Organic Coffee: Coffees whose growing conditions and processing have been certified by one of several independent monitoring and testing agencies to be free of the use of pesticides, herbicides, and other potentially harmful chemicals.

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