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GRENADA
Nibs
100%
75%
70%
60%
60% with Nibs
60% with Ginger

by Jouvay
Info Details
Country Grenada   
Type Brut   
Strain Hybrid   
Source Grenada   
Flavor Earthen   
Style Old School      
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med
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CQ
Sweetness
Acidity
Bitterness
Roast
Intensity
Complexity
Structure
Length
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.
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
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'.
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

  

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