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Nicaragua 75%

by Barsmiths™ Chocolate
Info Details
Country USA   
Type Semi-Dark   (75%)
Strain ICS   (+ UF; CATIE Hybrids)
Source Nicaragua   (Matagalpa)
Flavor Naked   
Style Mainstream      
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“I would never want to be Elvis”, rationalizes the stupidest man in the world, “that’d be all too much”.

Then again, maybe he has a point. And a consolation in this bar.

Elvis leads a complicated existence: he might’ve “left the buidling” yet still lives (re: record sales / visits to Graceland) but can hardly savor any chocolate.

So accept this bar, however humble, as a stroke of personal fortune. A privilege even the one & only Elvis can’t have.
Appearance   4.6 / 5
Color: ink jet brown
Surface: fine grade
Temper: lacquered plaque
Snap: rocking
Aroma   6.8 / 10
flat if not frowsty: black mission fig & licorice
Mouthfeel   13.2 / 15
Texture: smoove (hand-tempered smooth groove)
Melt: mid-tempo
Flavor   42 / 50
sweet licorice -> plain cocoa powder, robust roast, smoked but no tannin -> sapote sweet spot -> cane -> pitaya / dragon fruit -> biscuit backstop
Quality   15.3 / 20
A starter bar which Barsmiths™ admits it just gives away instead of selling, or uses in flight demos opposite mass-production fodder to prove that even humble artisan fare outperforms the candy giants.

Pretty monochromatic, nothing glam or sexed; just solid straight fare.

Barsmiths'™ COO: "Funny thing about this chocolate is that it's the one a lot of people like most. Some even ask for a refund on our $50 bar, saying that'd rather spend it on this." She continues, only half facetiously, "I think I'm going to have to start charging for this. Like maybe even a little more, like maybe $75."

Life inside the 1% bubble.

INGREDIENTS: cocoa mass, sugar

Reviewed November 20, 2013

  

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