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Term applied to unripe, blighted, or underdeveloped coffee beans.

quakery
A taste taint giving coffee brew a pronounced peanutty flavor. Result of the presence of light colored, underdeveloped, roasted coffee beans. Caused by picking unripe, green, coffee cherries during harvesting.

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