Pulse
by Bar au Chocolat
Impact
Nothing DOA here.
Pulse. This bar's got it.... pulsating & then some.
A chocolate that orbits a superposition into a quantum event that becomes omnipresent.
Reminiscent, in a different medium, of another current Los Angeleno -- Kour Pour whom some suspect doesn't exist, never existed, just a computer-generated figment of his art dealer’s imagination.
Aesthetic theorists see Pour's images of the carpet, & its inclusion of Egyptian & Asian figures conjuring global trade…. Post-Internet art because his techniques, though analog, deploy Googled images connected by way of a hacker’s arbitrary logic; the overall effect: Silk Road meets digital superhighway. Others may only see in his work just some Person rugs painted on canvas.
Behold.
Magic Carpet (Kour Pour; 2009-10)
Pulse. This bar's got it.... pulsating & then some.
A chocolate that orbits a superposition into a quantum event that becomes omnipresent.
Reminiscent, in a different medium, of another current Los Angeleno -- Kour Pour whom some suspect doesn't exist, never existed, just a computer-generated figment of his art dealer’s imagination.
Aesthetic theorists see Pour's images of the carpet, & its inclusion of Egyptian & Asian figures conjuring global trade…. Post-Internet art because his techniques, though analog, deploy Googled images connected by way of a hacker’s arbitrary logic; the overall effect: Silk Road meets digital superhighway. Others may only see in his work just some Person rugs painted on canvas.
Behold.
Appearance 5 / 5
| Color: | ruby brown |
| Surface: | cosmetic-grade |
| Temper: | pocket mirror |
| Snap: | clear |
Aroma 7.9 / 10
coffee; udder cheese whiff (lactic acid hangover); butter oil
Mouthfeel 12.1 / 15
| Texture: | con-glob-ulated |
| Melt: | wayward |
Flavor 45.7 / 50
easy-going café enveloped in cocoa butter -> black raspberry center gradually shifts to black mission fig... -> coffee & fruit shadow each other persistently in an eclipsing corona... -> chicory -> cassis
Quality 18.5 / 20
The most reposed chocolate-coffee combine ever.
B-au-C simply ages the chocolate base amidst coffee beans for 1 year as an infusion. This joins a growing suite of experiments such as aging cocoa nibs in wine casks or bourbon barrels, & the like. All workable due to cocoa butter / lipids highly absorbable / impressionistic properties.
The net effect here: so comfortable & relaxed, both the profile & the progression. Yet steadfast of tremendous stamina. Coffee more than a gossamer gauze, less than a filtered brew. And such lingering dulcitude.
A bar that excels in multiple categories. Creative (even the name rings unique for the 'fine-choc' space), innovative (methodology / processing) & substantive (flavor delivery).
B-au-C... high achiever.
INGREDIENTS: cocoa mass, sugar (+ coffee "aurics")
Reviewed March 1, 2017
B-au-C simply ages the chocolate base amidst coffee beans for 1 year as an infusion. This joins a growing suite of experiments such as aging cocoa nibs in wine casks or bourbon barrels, & the like. All workable due to cocoa butter / lipids highly absorbable / impressionistic properties.
The net effect here: so comfortable & relaxed, both the profile & the progression. Yet steadfast of tremendous stamina. Coffee more than a gossamer gauze, less than a filtered brew. And such lingering dulcitude.
A bar that excels in multiple categories. Creative (even the name rings unique for the 'fine-choc' space), innovative (methodology / processing) & substantive (flavor delivery).
B-au-C... high achiever.
INGREDIENTS: cocoa mass, sugar (+ coffee "aurics")
Reviewed March 1, 2017