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Country France   
Type Brut   (75%)
Strain Hybrid   
Source Tanzania   
Flavor Twang   
Style Industrial      
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Impact
Anyone who’s ever climbed... er, walked up Kilimanjaro (or listened to Miles’ verision of it) has gotten a whiff of this: bug spray & fibrous twine.
Appearance   4.8 / 5
Color: characteristic for an Amazon & similar to Lake Champlain‘s Tanzania (both probably share the same supplier on this origin, Barry Cacao): ash brown w/ purple push &, in a departure, striking scarlet shift
Surface: flawless
Temper: customary matte for Castelain
Snap: sharp, alto pitch; straight edge & fine grain on the break
Aroma   6.8 / 10
elusive & in-hiding: vanilla-boosted (echos of Maglio’s Tanzania) shading over wood chips (cotton & sycamore), coffee, & faint buried browns (raisins & dates); seemingly fired rather than sun-dried
Mouthfeel   10.5 / 15
Texture: dry / austere (befitting flavor)
Melt: fragmented clumps
Flavor   30.1 / 50
true to its sycamore scent, promsing start w/ chocolate fig -> spices (vanilla &, Zanzibar being right next door, clove) -> cocoa powder blast against dry cotton scrim in backdrop cauterizes entire length -> sisal twine, yielding wild agave nectar verging on alcohol yet ever-so-far from tequila -> cotton swabs an astringent-like pyrethrum insecticide, as grousing bitter coffee pours over dirty raisins to close it off
Quality   12.6 / 20
Tanzania can be tough to tame (just ask the Germans or Julius Nyerere). This has dark, bitter constitution under deceptively light garb. To Castelain’s credit, he refuses to cover up resident deficiencies by buttering over them or drowning in vanilla make-up. But facts remain: as a re-melter instead of a bean-to-bar manufacturer, he was dealt a weak hand trying to salvage faceless bulk-grade beans.

  

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