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Pineapple Chili

by Mānoa
Info Details
Country USA   (Batch 89-09/13)
Type Flavored   (Pineapple; Chili Pepper; 60% Dark-GoatMilk)
Strain Hybrid   
Source Peru   (Tumbes)
Flavor Crossover   (massive)
Style New School      
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The beaches of Hawai'i make ideal conditions for "singing sands" & "barking sands".

This bar simulates them.
Appearance   3.5 / 5
Color: gold 'n reddened-brown
Surface: pineapple studs on the back
Temper: a nucleated mess (plastic wrapper transfer)
Snap: snubbed
Aroma   6.7 / 10
initial inhale pretty vacant
then a tropical fruit waft with Dole canned pineapple syrup that sticks / stinks of glued paste (good for a sniffing high?)
airs out goat sausage
Mouthfeel   13.3 / 15
Texture: knobby & sandy
Melt: a drips 'n drags / fits 'n starts funhouse
Flavor   41 / 50
Milk Choc hit right off the springboard -> pineapple concentrate -> goat tang 'n hoof kicks over a can of pepper spray & starts crop-dusting the cocoa & the citrus -> salt puts the final kibosh on chocolate & spikes pineapple with a 2nd wind as well as relieves / takes the edge off the goat brew, relegating it into shadowy bitterness -> reverberates an excellent smoked-paprika back + flashes of ginger & cinnamon -> everlasting bromeliads
Quality   16.3 / 20
A lot of goings on.

Mānoa drops the cacáo-count down some 6% from its prone Dark-Milk base & sweetens the package with more sugar & dried pineapple offset / neutralized by salt & chili.

Bit of a gimmick... doesn't quite know when to quit. And why stop there? Why not add potatoes &/or hempseed for a ready-to-eat meal?

It all works somehow... in a mad weirding food-scientist kind of way. As though the Rube Goldberg contraption were a kitchen appliance churning out Rubik's Cubes of this bar.

Inventive.

Reviewed December 19, 2012

  

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