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Country Germany   
Type Beans   (w/ Ginger)
Strain Nacional   
Source Ecuador   (Los Rios, Hacienda Iara)
Flavor Spices & Herbs   
Style Rustic      
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These suckers make a serious doobie/blunt-powered munch food. No sugar shakes; just mellow, earth tones across a burning spice (if 5% minoxidil had the same effect as this 5% ginger, baldness could be cured forever - that's how scalp-tingling it is). Makes you go all Mayan & Chinese Shang dynasty… tripping back thru cacáo + ginger's history (word to all time-traveling stoners: try melding those 2 cultures together). Serve with a good dark rum & you're all there.
Appearance   4.2 / 5
like deer shit but who’s got an issue w/ that?
Color: really dusty sienna
Surface: Los Rios, Hacienda Iara
Temper: distemper
Snap: n/a
Aroma   7.9 / 10
cocoa mousse amidst rich loam & sharp box-cutter ginger
Mouthfeel   13.2 / 15
Texture: rough & rugged
Melt: primordial yet miraculously there is some
Flavor   44.1 / 50
ginger just kicks, followed on by sugar (not too sweet) -> impressive raw chocolate thunder... tremendously deep earth tones generated by strong carmelized action -> ginger burn opposite good cocoa liquor balance
Quality   17.8 / 20
Great change of pace from over-processed, over-sweetened, I-have-to-feed-my-ego-by-futzing with-a-great-bean-to-put-my-name-on-it chocolaters.

Ginger is, however, hyper-expressed (bright lightning & hot as the lone sun in Chinese mythology after Archer Yi extinguished the other 9 of them) but kept in check by great chocolate backbone creating fine palate juxtaposition between smooth & crunch, heat & base.

  

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