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Costa Rica

by Anonymous
Info Details
Country USA   
Type Dark   (70%)
Strain Blend   (Matina; Catongo; UAF; +)
Source Costa Rica   (Coto Brus)
Flavor Crossover   
Style Industrial      (neo-)
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Over the years several have asked a variation of what does the C in the C-spot® really mean?

They're directed, aptly enough, to the essay the 'C' in the C-spot®.

The abridged SparkNotes version goes something like this: what Shoegasm® is to footwear, & Soapology® to suds, so the C-spot® to chocolate.

And for this particular bar, consider the 'C' to stand for Confusion… as in con/fusing shoe leather, soap bubbles, & cocoa together in 1 bar.

Appearance   4.6 / 5
Color: beautiful magenta
Surface: some feet at the base (due to an unevenly settled pour), otherwise hyper-clean
Temper: good intensity
Snap: bit distant
Aroma   9 / 10
vanilla custard in a graham cracker crust
wondrous cherry & peach blossoms, redolent in their syrupy perfumes, galvanize mango & mangosteen
settles into a more-like-it Costa Rican fine pleather
Mouthfeel   11.9 / 15
Texture: slick wax
Melt: seamless / continuous
Flavor   32.4 / 50
that quince-inflected Mānoa Costa Rica, from the same Coto Brus region, blows up fruit here, then goes on a tear from there -- a spectacular but ultimate disaster:
sweet tooth marshmallow-fruit bites into chocolate hash -> BIG nut (paradise cream kernels -- aka monkey pot -- a combo of almond/walnut flavor) -> side bitter & stringency too -> brief leather 'n metal streak, the demarcation to a dystopic fate -> nappy / soapy underside (burlap soaked in detergent)…. progressive ruination, strives to right itself… around honey caramel… & fails -> ragweed & bug spray
Quality   11.2 / 20
Suffers from acute bipolar disorder.

1st half -- best Costa Rican ever.

2nd half -- the worst on record.

Hard to believe they inhabit the same single bar -- ecstasy & agony -- the delineation between the 2 so de-coherent that it becomes almost impossible to rate.

The timing of it all points to compromised cocoa butter as the possible culprit, as though Anonymous stored their wares in Barsmiths'™ utility room which also issued a laundry disinfectant recently disguised as a bar. Either that or it'd be convenient to point out the bacteria cultures which can jump-start fermentations needs to check back into the local CDC (Center for Disease Control) in Costa Rica & be quarantined until the bugs get worked out except none were utilized for these seeds… they underwent a traditional spontaneous fermentation.

Just some awful terpene compounds floating around, thus prolonging the length too much.

INGREDIENTS: cocoa mass, sugar, cocoa butter

Reviewed October 21, 2014

  

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