Dark Milk
by Omanhene
Impact
RFK once advised hanging a lantern on a problem – bringing it to light helps to solve it.
Ghana, good God, we got a problem... basically the Mona Lisa (hardly the most beautiful visage to begin with) sporting a hairlip piercing thru milk for a mustache.
Hmmm... kinda improves it.
Ghana, good God, we got a problem... basically the Mona Lisa (hardly the most beautiful visage to begin with) sporting a hairlip piercing thru milk for a mustache.
Hmmm... kinda improves it.
Appearance 4.5 / 5
| Color: | about right for a 48% DM: bronzed brown |
| Surface: | extremely clean |
| Temper: | low vinyl sheen |
| Snap: | on the button; finely-sanded edged |
Aroma 5.1 / 10
moth balls & stale caramel in a cedar closet after termites eat thru the wood -> grandma-funk stuffed in the attic trunk -> molding musted-chalk in the guise of powdered milk -> wet cement -> red palm oil
Mouthfeel 9.3 / 15
| Texture: | powderful |
| Melt: | dry |
Flavor 34 / 50
direct descent of the Aroma: dry caramel but malt instead of moth ball -> powdered milk -> dairy butter churning peanuts -> must ‘n dust & a li’l ol’ maple syrup -> chalk & Bosco™ bristle w/ a whisker -> almonds -> banana leaf stuck in casein
Quality 12.4 / 20
Omanhene is a social venture headed by Steve Wallace, efforting to coordinate every step of the supply & production chain, all done in Ghana.
Technical considerations taste secondary to the primacy of good relations between people, the land, & cacáo trees. We can all support that.
Hopefully, quality & flavor will follow.
ING: cocoa mass, sugar, cacáo butter, lecithin
Reviewed Summer 2010
Technical considerations taste secondary to the primacy of good relations between people, the land, & cacáo trees. We can all support that.
Hopefully, quality & flavor will follow.
ING: cocoa mass, sugar, cacáo butter, lecithin
Reviewed Summer 2010