"acrid taste" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a particularly unpleasant taste, for example, "the coffee had an acrid taste, so I couldn't drink it".
The crab itself, slick with a lemony glaze, had a burnt, almost acrid taste.
An acrid taste of burning oil filled my mouth, and the walls seemed to flex and heave around us.
The fish had the tang of lemon, which we liked, but also the acrid taste of burned garlic.
"You also have to be careful not to overdo the saffron, or it will give an acrid taste".
If Ibsen caught the tensions of the night before, Strindberg revealed the acrid taste of the morning after.
The basket of hot bread, each slice tinged to golden and with beautiful grill marks, had the acrid taste of a too-hot fire.
And it had this slight acrid, bitter taste to it—I could taste it, but I insisted, "No, it'll be fine; let's throw it in there".
Acrid, tastes burnt and too harshly spiced.
Occasionally, however, mushrooms of the species have been collected which have a mild taste; this has also been observed in other species with typically acrid tastes.
Acrid in taste, it emits a strong onionlike odour because of its organic sulfur compounds.
A highly carbonised, smokeless charcoal called binchotan helps to cook food evenly and avoids the acrid smoky taste.
