GRENADA
Nibs
100%
75%
70%
60%
60% with Nibs
60% with Ginger
by Jouvay
Impact
The 100%: a grenade lobbed straight from Grenada. Bores a hole in the ground. Kicks up lava & dirt.
The other bars... mostly shrapnel & collateral damage with a promise of a sprout or two in the aftermath.
The other bars... mostly shrapnel & collateral damage with a promise of a sprout or two in the aftermath.
Appearance 3.7 / 5
| Color: |
Nibs: grey matter Bars: Stendhal-worthy scarlet & black |
| Surface: | whirly-gigging |
| Temper: | hi-beam |
| Snap: | plucked up |
Aroma 6.9 / 10
Nibs
nice mix of robusto coffee, green plantain, cherry stone, nutmeg
100%
bulk pretense until the nuts -- skins, shells, meat, everything -- roll up
75%
charcoal lava & loam + trace white fruit
70%
volcanic forest fire
60%
a flaming mudpie
60% with Nibs
sweet Earth / saccharine dirt
60% with Ginger
ginger-strong / medicinal-herb strength
nice mix of robusto coffee, green plantain, cherry stone, nutmeg
100%
bulk pretense until the nuts -- skins, shells, meat, everything -- roll up
75%
charcoal lava & loam + trace white fruit
70%
volcanic forest fire
60%
a flaming mudpie
60% with Nibs
sweet Earth / saccharine dirt
60% with Ginger
ginger-strong / medicinal-herb strength
Mouthfeel 12.7 / 15
| Texture: |
Nibs: crisp Bars round & round |
| Melt: |
Nibs: positive swell Bars: slow go |
Flavor 30.4 / 50
Nibs
cocoa bite, nuts inflections, then the scorch comes on, alternating against under-fermented metallic streaks -> finishes with the tongue scrapping the crusts off the oven bottom
100%
charcoal -> dirt -> bitter fat -> volcanic dust
brutal
75%
loads-in brown sugar, good thing too, as it wards off the burn marks from this bar's roast -> still manages an appreciable prune inflection (so very Grenada) amidst the soot
70%
Btach 060303
similar entrance to the 75% except more cocoa-centric -> burnt remnants hard on its heels -> fruit never really emerges, instead a vague camphor accentuates the negative -> mol-ashes (molasses-ash)
60%
Batch 110404(?)
pattern continues... spiced cocoa / brown-sugar chocolate -> coffee underside -> mite verbena -> baked pinto -> drains off cocoa syrup
burnt beans finally meet their match at 40% sugar content
60% with Nibs
Nibs add textural & flavorful backbone to the 60% base (above), augmenting the coffee tones considerably, kept largely in check by a van-load of sugar -> late latent blackberry (somewhat rare for Grenada)
a chocolate for the masses
60% with Ginger
Batch 080807(?)
penetrating ginger backed by an unforeseen-heretofor milk-caramel apparition! -> wait, it gets better & even more unexpected with a citrus offshoot that rises above yet tethered to the underlying procession Terrific bar, both in its own right & in comparison to the foregoing bars that precede it to beg 'where did this come from'.
cocoa bite, nuts inflections, then the scorch comes on, alternating against under-fermented metallic streaks -> finishes with the tongue scrapping the crusts off the oven bottom
100%
charcoal -> dirt -> bitter fat -> volcanic dust
brutal
75%
loads-in brown sugar, good thing too, as it wards off the burn marks from this bar's roast -> still manages an appreciable prune inflection (so very Grenada) amidst the soot
70%
Btach 060303
similar entrance to the 75% except more cocoa-centric -> burnt remnants hard on its heels -> fruit never really emerges, instead a vague camphor accentuates the negative -> mol-ashes (molasses-ash)
60%
Batch 110404(?)
pattern continues... spiced cocoa / brown-sugar chocolate -> coffee underside -> mite verbena -> baked pinto -> drains off cocoa syrup
burnt beans finally meet their match at 40% sugar content
60% with Nibs
Nibs add textural & flavorful backbone to the 60% base (above), augmenting the coffee tones considerably, kept largely in check by a van-load of sugar -> late latent blackberry (somewhat rare for Grenada)
a chocolate for the masses
60% with Ginger
Batch 080807(?)
penetrating ginger backed by an unforeseen-heretofor milk-caramel apparition! -> wait, it gets better & even more unexpected with a citrus offshoot that rises above yet tethered to the underlying procession Terrific bar, both in its own right & in comparison to the foregoing bars that precede it to beg 'where did this come from'.
Quality 11.1 / 20
Local label produced in conjunction with the Grenada Cocoa Farmers' Association & LA Burdick. Big NPK fertilizer bunch.
Much of it too brute for the tourist trade (or any market segment) but bulk all the same.
INGREDIENTS: cocoa mass, cocoa butter (add ginger for 60% with Ginger bar)
Reviewed August 23, 2017
Much of it too brute for the tourist trade (or any market segment) but bulk all the same.
INGREDIENTS: cocoa mass, cocoa butter (add ginger for 60% with Ginger bar)
Reviewed August 23, 2017