Cacao 55%
by Kahkow
Impact
On paper 55% usually signals a bar for the teething set still weaning off Milk Chocolate.
This Dark, which barely qualifies for the category, plays harder on the the gums (Texture) than on the tongue (Flavor). But there too it balls with a certain swagger for such an under-muscled frame.
This Dark, which barely qualifies for the category, plays harder on the the gums (Texture) than on the tongue (Flavor). But there too it balls with a certain swagger for such an under-muscled frame.
Appearance 3.8 / 5
| Color: | a purple-trator notwithstanding the high sugar content… call it violet-brown |
| Surface: | airside motion sickness |
| Temper: | a bit dejected |
| Snap: | KahKow's house specialty -- ready, willing & able |
Aroma 8 / 10
from the lead No. 2 pencil in its 70% sib to the blue ink in its 62% & now this -- a ream of paper -- maybe chocolate just fronts for Kahkow's real business -- stationary supplies?
add dried currant + a green tea hangover from the 62% bar
quite the array for 55%
add dried currant + a green tea hangover from the 62% bar
quite the array for 55%
Mouthfeel 10.9 / 15
| Texture: | shatters into shards |
| Melt: | endless globules |
Flavor 43.6 / 50
vanilla cream -> Halloween candy corn -> honeycomb -> caramelized almond of subtle but lasting strength -> child's cocoa -> Turkish fig Newton
Quality 16.3 / 20
Sweeter version of KahKow's 70%. A flavor progression built on stasis. But contender to Caoni for being among the best-built 55%s in history.
Though sweet, it rarely cloys. Better still, it integrates the sugar, indeed compensates for all of it, by over-refining the particles to undetectable microns in the Texture which, alas, gum up the works some.
All things considered, an impressive constellation & concentration of flavor pooling together.
INGREDIENTS: cocoa mass, sugar, cocoa butter, vanilla, lecithin
Reviewed March 24, 2014
Though sweet, it rarely cloys. Better still, it integrates the sugar, indeed compensates for all of it, by over-refining the particles to undetectable microns in the Texture which, alas, gum up the works some.
All things considered, an impressive constellation & concentration of flavor pooling together.
INGREDIENTS: cocoa mass, sugar, cocoa butter, vanilla, lecithin
Reviewed March 24, 2014