Oniony
Has a
flavour of onions.
Oaxaca (Wah-HAH-kuh),
Oaxaca Pluma
Market name for coffee from the
southern Mexico state of Oaxaca.
Ocoa
Market
name for one of the better-respected coffees of the Dominican Republic.
Old
A roasted
coffee that has been left for too long changes aroma and acquires a
specific and disagreeable flavour. Similar to oldish but with stronger
hay-like flavour.
Old Arabicas
Botanical
varieties or cultivars of the Coffea arabica species that were
developed by selection relatively early in the history of coffee, such
as var. bourbon and var. typica, as opposed to hybrid varieties that
have been developed more recently in deliberate efforts to increase
disease resistance and production. Many experts contend that the modern
varieties of Coffea arabica produce coffee that is inferior in cup
quality and interest to the coffee produced by the more traditional old
arabica varieties.
Old Crop
Coffee
that has been held in warehouses before shipping. Old crop differs from
aged or vintage and mature coffees in two ways: First, it has not been
held for as long a period, and second, it may not have been handled with
as much deliberateness. Depending on the characteristics of the
original coffee and the quality of the handling, old crop may or may not
be considered superior in cup characteristics to a new crop version of
the same coffee. See also New Crop.
Old Java, Old
Government, Old Brown
Arabica coffee from Java that,
like mature coffee, has been deliberately held in warehouses in port
cities to reduce acidity and increase body. The purpose is to mimic the
flavor characteristics of the original Java coffee, which was
inadvertently aged in the holds of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century
sailing ships during their passage to Europe.
Old Tavern Coffee
Estate
A small, highly regarded producer of
certified Jamaica Blue Mountain™ coffee using traditional wet processing
methods.
Open-Pot Method
Brewing
method in which the ground coffee is steeped (not boiled) in an open
pot, and separated from the brewed coffee by settling or straining.
Organic Coffee,
Certified Organic Coffee
Coffee that has been
certified by a third-party agency as having been grown and processed
without the use of pesticides, herbicides, or similar chemicals.
Organic coffees
A coffee that is certified by an international agency as having been
grown free of chemical pesticides, fertilizers, or herbicides and
labeled as such.