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Rough; disagreeable; grating
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disagreeable to the touch.
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disagreeable to the taste.
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disagreeable to the ear.
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Unpleasant and repulsive to the sensibilities; austere; crabbed; morose; abusive; abusive; severe; rough.
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Harsh is a term used to describe overwhelming tastes, aromas or mouthfeels. This descriptor can describe a variety of negative aspects of a beer including the hops, carbonation level, or overwhelming finish.
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Gratingly unpleasant to the ear.
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A coffee that is hard in flavour.
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Harshness would normally be due to under withering or oxidization in the manufacturing process rather than the timing of plucking.
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A term used to describe a certain coffee flavor. Rio and similarly flavored coffee are generally described as harsh.
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Wines that are tannic, rough, and high in alcohol.
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unpleasantly stern; "wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus"; "the nomad life is rough and hazardous"
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disagreeable to the senses; "the harsh cry of a blue jay"; "harsh cognac"; "the harsh white light makes you screw up your eyes"; "harsh irritating smoke filled the hallway"
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sharply disagreeable; rigorous; "the harsh facts of court delays"; "an abrasive character"
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unpleasant chemical taste and smell due to excessive ethyl acetate
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Bitter and dry taste.
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An unpleasantly aggressive or caustic flavor or feeling to the mouth or nose.
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Unpleasantly rough tasting tea that has not been properly withered.
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Unpleasant, bitter infusion resulting from under withered leaves.
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Crude raw taste; used to describe certain Brazils and robustas.
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bitter teas
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A hard raspy often-caustic flavour sometimes described as Rioy.
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Strong, unpleasant, sharp or "edgy" flavor; also used to describe Rio-y, iodine-like flavor.
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A coffee that is hard in flavor.
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Unpleasant, hard, or crude in flavor.
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A hard, raspy, often caustic, flavor sometimes described as Rioy.
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Refers to a tea which is bitter which could result from picking (plucking) tea before it is ready.
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Acrid. Sensation at the same time bitter and astringent, raspy, and disagreeable. Particularly found in some poor quality robusta coffees. Often due to imperfect beans.
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(Tea - Liquors) An unattractive astringent taste caused by underwithered leaf or high firing
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An unpleasantly sharp, rough or irritating taste.
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a taste generally due to the leaf being under withered during manufacture resulting in a very rough taste.
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A taste which is unpleasantly sharp, rough, or irritating.
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unpleasant to the taste, abrasive, coarse, acerbic, astringent, biting, bitter, caustic, cutting, dry, mordant, nasty, sharp, stinging, vitriolic. Definitely not smooth.
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Very astringent wines, usually with high alcohol component, often have this rough, rustic taste characteristic. May become more tolerable with aging but also may not be worth the wait.
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burning, caustic or callous flavor.
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Very rough in flavor; associated with underwithered teas.
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