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Sao Tome

by Neuhaus
Info Details
Country Belgium   
Type Brut   (75%)
Strain Amelonado   (Amazon)
Source São Tomé   
Flavor Spices & Herbs   
Style Mainstream      
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The power chunk of an elephant & a force of nature seemingly brewed up by local shamans who probably take it as a tropical African savannah cocktail. So stout & sturdy, once downed, you can blow its flavors thru the trunk of what was once your nose. So switched-on, it gets you buzzing off the electrical grid. Heavyweight sweetmeat; a world dominator.
Appearance   3.8 / 5
encased in a virtual passport
Color: dark brown & faint kohl
Surface: cacáo pod mold on front; swirling damask back; unbroken solid
Temper: recessed
Snap: spoon-snap
Aroma   7.4 / 10
cigar/wood/leather library of flavor; cinnamon sits in the middle
Mouthfeel   10.9 / 15
Texture: hardly massages the gums; clumpy pudding, almost chewy
Melt: solid stiff, requires branding iron to melt
Flavor   45.4 / 50
what extremes – from an instant chocolate-coconut running fast into spiky grasslands... -> a spice bump (cinnamon / clove / vanilla) up to huge fruit (cherry/orange blossom – practically juice) -> brief passing almond -> return to the stump juice spray -> finishes long on reverbarating green stalk
Quality   18.8 / 20
A bean origin in which hyper Belgian processing applies to deft effect in the flavor dept, moderating the parameters toward equilibrium, including a flickering moment where the profile flirts close to that island off the other coast of Africa: Madagascar.

  

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