Here are the definitions for the letter "f"

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Fair Traded Coffee

Coffee that has been purchased from farmers (usually peasant farmers) at a 'fair' price as defined by international agencies. The extra paid these farmers under fair trade arrangements is extremely modest, by the way.

FAQ

Fair average quality.

Fazenda

A coffee plantation.

Fazendero

A proprietor of a fazenda.

Fermentation

An important but confusing coffee term with two main meanings. 1) As a positive component of the wet method of coffee processing, fermentation is a stage in which the sticky pulp is loosened from the skinned coffee seeds or beans by natural enzymes while the beans rest in tanks. If water is added to the tanks the process is called wet fermentation; if no water is added it is called dry fermentation. 2) In sensory evaluation, or cupping, of coffee, fermentation is an important descriptor for a range of related taste defects set off when the sugars in the coffee fruit begin to ferment. Sensations described as ferment can range from sweet, composty, rotten-fruit tastes to harsh, moldy, musty, or medicinal tastes.

fermented

A taste fault in the coffee beans producing a highly displeasing sour sensation on the tongue. The result of enzyme activity in the green coffee beans changing the sugars to acids in the drying process during harvesting.

Fermenting

A process where yeasts eat the sugars in a substance.

Filter Holder, Portafilter

In espresso brewing, a metal object with plastic handle that holds the coffee filter, and clamps onto the group.

Filter Method, Filter-Drip Method

Technically, any brewing method in which water filters through a bed of ground coffee. In popular usage, describes drip method brewers utilizing a paper filter to separate grounds from brewed coffee.

Filtered Method

coffee brewed with a filter where the coffee is held separate from the sitting water.

Finca

A coffee plantation.

fine cup

Coffee with good, positive characteristics.

Finish

The sensory experience of coffee just as it is swallowed (or, in the professional cupping procedure, just before it is spit out). Some coffees transform from first impression on the palate to finish; others stand pat.

finish

If aroma is the overture of the coffee, then finish is the resonant silence at the end of the piece. Finish is a term relatively recently brought over into coffee tasting from wine connoisseurship; it describes the aftertaste that lingers on the palate after the coffee is spit out or swallowed. It is in part a reflection of body; heavier-bodied coffees like the Sumatran will have a much longer finish than lighter-bodied coffees like the Mexican.

Finish

the after taste or the lingering taste of the coffee.