Milk Chocolate
by Sir Hans Sloane
Impact
Bill McCarrick, the force behind Sir Hans Sloane, operates out of England but he was born in Bruce Springsteen’s USA.
This bar has all the stamina of a moose to recall more than Sarah Palin field-dressing one, but that original American force-of-nature - Teddy Roosevelt (Republicans tend to be this way; none of the cool cerebral refinement). Right after the 26th president was shot by a would-be assassin, Roosevelt went right on delivering his 45 minute speech anyway, opening his suit jacket to the crowd to show in full view his still-bleeding wound, booming how “it takes more than a bullet to kill this bull-moose.”
This bar has all the stamina of a moose to recall more than Sarah Palin field-dressing one, but that original American force-of-nature - Teddy Roosevelt (Republicans tend to be this way; none of the cool cerebral refinement). Right after the 26th president was shot by a would-be assassin, Roosevelt went right on delivering his 45 minute speech anyway, opening his suit jacket to the crowd to show in full view his still-bleeding wound, booming how “it takes more than a bullet to kill this bull-moose.”
Appearance 5 / 5
| Color: | light taupe |
| Surface: | clean bi-level mold gorgeously imprinted w/ cacáo petals & flowers |
| Temper: | burnished for a Milk |
| Snap: | high-pitch, especially for a Milk, even one at 40%; well-formed edge |
Aroma 9.2 / 10
head-on collision: dairy just creams cacáo into apple-sauce caramel -> rare hibiscus & honeysuckle in a Milk Choc complete the fragrance
Mouthfeel 10.9 / 15
| Texture: | powder in defiance of 3-day conching (thanks to powdered milk + approximate 1/3 sugar), brief swelling then liquifies |
| Melt: | conche of 72 hours & counting... starts ‘n fits... eventually releases rapidly |
Flavor 45.4 / 50
flash caramel, big & strong -> undercurrent of viscous butter -> sodium rising -> umami softens to toffee... next fig -> collapses into milk chocolate butter -> delayed reactions of licorice, wattleseed, & simple cocoa
Quality 17.6 / 20
Damnedest Milk Choc around... from the look... the scent... & flavor.
SHS’s 64% possesses some Criollo-like Milk analogues (lactic acid) & this amplifies that then turns it on its head with all those salt-laden effects in the mid-palate, influencing less sweetness than actuality.
Texture somewhat incongruous with taste at times (powdered caramel at the start; savory smoothness further in; dark liquid at the end) to wonder when & where in the sequence ingredients were staged in.
40% sounds high for Milk Chocolate but most of it cacáo butter instead of coca mass & the combination of that, plus lengthy conche, fixes all those sapid notes, generating stamina even past the point where this bar seemingly collapses, only to stagger back up for those late developments (brown sugar in the mix?), making it more elaborate than its 64% Dark brethren.
SHS rivals Castelain in optimizing its working materials. The latter a restoration artist receiving essentially damaged goods from Cacao Barry couverture; the former a make-up artist handling unfinished liquor prep’d in Panama, applying the finishing touches to professionally beautify it.
ING: cacáo butter, whole milk powder, sugar, cocoa mass, soy lecithin
Reviewed Winter 2009/10
SHS’s 64% possesses some Criollo-like Milk analogues (lactic acid) & this amplifies that then turns it on its head with all those salt-laden effects in the mid-palate, influencing less sweetness than actuality.
Texture somewhat incongruous with taste at times (powdered caramel at the start; savory smoothness further in; dark liquid at the end) to wonder when & where in the sequence ingredients were staged in.
40% sounds high for Milk Chocolate but most of it cacáo butter instead of coca mass & the combination of that, plus lengthy conche, fixes all those sapid notes, generating stamina even past the point where this bar seemingly collapses, only to stagger back up for those late developments (brown sugar in the mix?), making it more elaborate than its 64% Dark brethren.
SHS rivals Castelain in optimizing its working materials. The latter a restoration artist receiving essentially damaged goods from Cacao Barry couverture; the former a make-up artist handling unfinished liquor prep’d in Panama, applying the finishing touches to professionally beautify it.
ING: cacáo butter, whole milk powder, sugar, cocoa mass, soy lecithin
Reviewed Winter 2009/10