A taste taint that gives the coffee bean a distinct hay-like character. Result of the loss of organic material from the green coffee beans while in storage, occurring in the aging process after harvesting.

Characteristic scent of past-croppish coffees; hay-like. See Woody.

A coffee that tastes of straw.

Tasting of hay or straw, usually the result of green beans that have been stored too long.

A hay-like scent characteristic.