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Country Germany   
Type Beans   (w/ Cinnamon)
Strain Nacional   
Source Ecuador   (Los Rios, Hacienda Iara)
Flavor Spices & Herbs   (backed w/ Earthen dirt)
Style Old School      
lo
med
hi
CQ
Sweetness
Acidity
Bitterness
Roast
Intensity
Complexity
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Length
Impact
These beans are squat in a bad mood, rough & tough to teeth thru & probably take weeks to digest once they hit the GI tract. Ideal for slow metabolisms, like Russell the Wombat's, to drop as his signature cubic scat.
Appearance   4.1 / 5
Color: what else but cinnamon brown
Surface: Los Rios, Hacienda Iara
Temper: dusted
Snap: n/a
Aroma   7.6 / 10
neatly balanced between cinnamon & dried cocoa w/ bluestone beneath; yabba dabba dooo
Mouthfeel   11.2 / 15
Texture: shrapnel
Melt: indestructible; prepare to pick clumps out of the recessed sublingual corners for days
Flavor   37.4 / 50
cinnamon cement -> cracks open to dirt & weeds -> spice cache left in a deep-dug burrow w/ a few ground worms, naked roots, & vines -> desiccated cocoa in the rear compartment, crushed by a hard shell fragment -> eventually... a long time in coming... cinnamon gives way to rough & sometimes bitter cocoa express; stringent sour continues tight grip in the after-taste
Quality   16.8 / 20
Ingenuous. A little saving cocoa grace but cinnamon just the coverall stand-in for a spoonful of sugar to help the meds go down. Still, relatively mild for the bean category, thanks to Nacional's rather benign genetic structure.

ING: cocoa bean, sugar, cocoa mass, cacáo butter, cocoa powder, cinnamon

  

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