SMOKY

This smell and flavour is similar to fireplace effluence, campfire, or burnt food. Dark-roasted or oven-roasted coffees can have smoky flavors, or roasters where the air is recycled in the roast drum (or does not vent at all). Sometimes green coffee can have a smoky hint, and this might be found in the roasted coffee too, suggesting bad mechanical drying at the coffee mill. Smokey hints might be a positive quality in certain exotic coffees (Monsooned India, Aged Java and Aged Sumatra come to mind) or in rustic Yemeni coffees.