At first, it tastes pretty much the same way it smells - musty, but otherwise not too bad. But then, before you know it, this incredibly overpowering BITTERNESS hits your tongue like a FREIGHT TRAIN OUT OF HELL! God, the bitterness! It's horrible, horrible, horrible!!! Nothing tastes as bitter - NOTHING! And the worst part is that the taste LINGERS - it lingers there in your mouth like a bloodstain in your carpet, and nothing you can do can rid your mouth of the taste of it - you just have to wait the long hours for it to fade away on its own.