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Hawai'i Blend

by Nanea
Info Details
Country USA   
Type Dark   (85%)
Strain Blend   (Criollo +)
Source Hawai'i USA   (Kauai & Hamakua)
Flavor Earthen   
Style Rustic      
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Sweetness
Acidity
Bitterness
Roast
Intensity
Complexity
Structure
Length
Impact
Texture: hard-boiled.

Flavor: scrambled soft.
Appearance   3.9 / 5


Color: bi-color (no, not Theobroma bicolor aka Grandiflorum but twin-toned)...
Surface: ... suggesting tempering issues & how the bar cooled at the later stages of processing
Temper: matte
Snap: solid like a rock meeting a chisel (medium-thickness to the pour of this incorrigible bad-boy)
Aroma   6.1 / 10
that monster micro-brew in Nanea's Criollo slides over to the salami section in the back of the deli next to the bins of coffee beans
Mouthfeel   10.6 / 15
Texture: stiff albumin
Melt: slowly dissipates onto a residual Nib or two
Flavor   31.8 / 50
bees wax -> coffee -> bubble yum / cotton candy -> bitter joins the fray & some salami fat too -> banana 'n egg cream (peak of the experience) -> atemoya then back to bitter fat -> coffee grounds with a shock dragon fruit -> spongey jackfruit
Quality   10.1 / 20
A blend of Nanea's Criollo + Tom Menezes' -- the hallmarks for a great blueprint but, as with many such super-pedigreed bars, they total less than the sum of their parts -- although none more spectacularly than this.

Poor technique all the way around & nowhere so acutely felt as in the Texture as the grinding / conching leaves some Nib fractions intact.

Other than some intriguing bitter-fruit coupling, a bar that simply gets only a modicum out of its cacáos.

Reviewed February 25, 2013

  

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