Impact
Appearance 4.5 / 5
| Color: | polychromatic (emerald, brown, black & rouge) |
| Surface: | backside constellated with anise seed, sea salt, & pieces of licorice |
| Temper: | twinkling |
| Snap: | a falling object in the firmament with the mute button on |
Aroma 9 / 10
Twizzler's Chocolate Twists™ meet Gummie Bear™ Licorice
Mouthfeel 12.1 / 15
| Texture: | powder & licorice chunks cause... |
| Melt: | ... a few yips in the works |
Flavor 46.4 / 50
anise seed might as well be star anise because Askinosie just lights it up
solid MC entrance -> backlit anise comes to the fore to counter insurgent goat's milk streaking across the horizon, the tang-kicks of the goat further quelled by rising tides of salt in saliva to simultaneously draw out whorls of licorice, clearly & cleanly expressed the further the bar melts away toward purely infused chocolate-licorice -> caramel-crescents recede thru black mission figs with a tender goat bite at the back
solid MC entrance -> backlit anise comes to the fore to counter insurgent goat's milk streaking across the horizon, the tang-kicks of the goat further quelled by rising tides of salt in saliva to simultaneously draw out whorls of licorice, clearly & cleanly expressed the further the bar melts away toward purely infused chocolate-licorice -> caramel-crescents recede thru black mission figs with a tender goat bite at the back
Quality 18.2 / 20
Deft control. Askinosie really taking hold of the levers.
A bar that goes some distance in upgrading an already considerable Davao Dark-Milk whose firm cacáo foundation prevents the goat-milk kicks from stomping all over it.
Indeed that Davao D-M provides the perfect foil to the inclusions here precisely because its own stout nature balances the potency of a) anise seed -- the gateway & reinforcement to b) licorice from Sweden's Lakritsfabriken; less in a canceling effect than in the elements subduing (especially the more medicinal aspects of licorice root) before subsuming one another without eliminating any of them.
Askinosie coming into his own.
INGREDIENTS: cocoa mass, sugar cane juice, cocoa butter, goat's milk powder, sea salt, salted black licorice, anise seed
Reviewed April 30, 2012
A bar that goes some distance in upgrading an already considerable Davao Dark-Milk whose firm cacáo foundation prevents the goat-milk kicks from stomping all over it.
Indeed that Davao D-M provides the perfect foil to the inclusions here precisely because its own stout nature balances the potency of a) anise seed -- the gateway & reinforcement to b) licorice from Sweden's Lakritsfabriken; less in a canceling effect than in the elements subduing (especially the more medicinal aspects of licorice root) before subsuming one another without eliminating any of them.
Askinosie coming into his own.
INGREDIENTS: cocoa mass, sugar cane juice, cocoa butter, goat's milk powder, sea salt, salted black licorice, anise seed
Reviewed April 30, 2012