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Country USA   
Type Brut   (99%)
Strain Blend   
Source
Flavor Earthen   
Style Neo-Modern      
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Sweetness
Acidity
Bitterness
Roast
Intensity
Complexity
Structure
Length
Impact
Initially inviting, then does for taste buds what Jaws did for beach resorts – wipes them out.
Appearance   2.9 / 5
Color: red brick (emphasis brick)
Surface: front smudged; beats hasty retreat out back (whorls, swirls, eddying pools, etc.)
Temper: uneven
Snap: quiet for its size; very smooth / soft edge
Aroma   8.6 / 10
wafts out the box before wrapper’s even broken: cocoa, coffee, dried fruit (raisin, apricot, persimmon), spices (coriander, clove, vanilla), & herbs (chicory root, tobacco, slippery elm, & tumeric); nice, super light balance
Mouthfeel   14 / 15
Texture: soft & somewhat floofy
Melt: airy for unsweetened
Flavor   30.6 / 50
aromatics a cruel tease, except lightness in the scent transfers to flavor by grabbing air right off, then all just crashes to earth -> watery sour reds spurt out on the landing, raining back down into black olive, creating a slurry of iron slag -> frothy bitter acids hang suspended as a result... some kind of molecular meteorology that could be whipped up by Ferran Adrià, of El Bulli fame, into an aerosal foaming agent for spumed dirt -> thumps into wood stumps -> deep in the after-math’s shaft, after the throat clears & the GI tract bakes it for awhile, tad chocolate flavor, & then only as reflux
Quality   15.7 / 20
Among the most unique unsweeteneds. Taste & texture shaped by clear combo of gentle roast (true to S-B form) & emaciating conche, stripping off a lot of body while preserving tannins, to create those light, airy (albeit bitter) effects. Ideal for baking cake. (In truth, this is off-label use as an eating bar since it was designed for baking purposes.)

  

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