Here are the definitions for the letter "b"

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Bag

Usually a burlap sack of coffee. In various countries it is a different weight. As an example Brazil a bag is 132 pounds. Colombia it is 154 pounds. In Angola it is 176 pound.

baggy

An off-taste often observed in cups from weakly roasted coffees that have been stored for a long time in unsuitable conditions.

baked

A taste and odor taint that gives the coffee brew a flat bouquet and insipid taste. The result of the roasting process proceeding with too little heat over too long a period. Generally unpleasant characteristic of having an over-baked taste in an over-heated coffee. Ranks in the following order of intensity: cooked, baked or burnt.

Balance

Tasting term applied to coffees for which no single characteristic overwhelms others, but that display sufficient complexity to be interesting.

Balance

A tasting term applied to coffee or wine means no single taste characteristic overwhelms others.

balanced

This is a difficult term. When tasting coffees for defects, professional tasters use the term to describe a coffee that does not localize at any one point on the palate; in other words, it is not imbalanced in the direction of some one (often undesirable) taste characteristic. As a term of general evaluation, balance appears to mean that no one quality overwhelms all others, but there is enough complexity in the coffee to arouse interest. It is a term that on occasion damns with faint praise. The Mexican sample should be most balanced, but it has less to balance than the other two coffees. If you tasted the Yemen Mocha against a standard Ethiopian Harrar you would probably sense how the Yemen coffee is similar to the Harrar, but much more balanced. A well-balanced coffee contains all the basic characteristics to the right extent.

Bale

Another term for bag. About 176 pounds but changes depending on who is using the term.

Bani

Market name for a good, low-acid coffee of the Dominican Republic.

Barahona

Market name for coffee from the southwest of the Dominican Republic. Barahona is considered by many to be the best coffee of the Dominican Republic.

Barista

Italian term for skillful and experienced espresso bar operator.

basic tastes

Sweet, sour, salt, and bitter. Characterized respectively by sucrose, tartaric acid, sodium chloride, and quinine.

Batch Roaster

Apparatus that roasts a given quantity (a batch) of coffee at a time.

Batch Roaster

A machine which roasts a given quantity at one time. In effect, it is a roaster which does not continually roast beans. There is an identifiable start and end time to the roasters capabilities.

beany

Specific aroma of an insufficiently roasted coffee that has not been able to develop its full aroma.

Benefico

A spanish term for establishments that have cleaning, washing, drying, and sorting machines.