Philippines
Guatemala
Madagascar
by Dormouse
Impact
December 2018... 'tis the season. Please forgive, can't resist:
'twas before Christmas & all thru the house
Not a creature was stirring, except for Dormouse...
... Chocolates out of Manchester UK which intersects Brexit, Climate Change, Fair Speech, et.al.
As with tea hungover from a vanquished empire, England will survive its quarrel(s) with the EU one way or another & continue to import cocoa. Some things, like tropical groceries, ppl just gotta have.
As per Climate Change, virtue-signaling among cocoa pod-brains on social media belies that the LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) for cacáo / cocoa / chocolate ain't pretty -- even in agroforestry settings. True, the impact of eating chocolate individually may not rise to the level of flying private. Then again, billions consume it everyday where only billionaires jet around in their G650s.
Habits are a helluva drug. Precisely why they're habits. Whether chocolate (morish = more + more), sex (bulging population, everybody?), Xanax (mental dis-ease) or whatever, w'all got at least one addiction.
Finally, to the word-police & censors trolling the multiverse with all the zeal of minders in the PRoC tallying 'social credits', it's no doubt unfair to print anything but praise for chocolate nowadays. Especially when stars, ribbons & medals get passed out freely as credit cards to pile up so much indebtedness (just pay to enter, everyone a winner).
So to sample then update those once-revolting bad boys, The Clash, off their Combat Rock LP, you have the right to free speech, if you're bold enough to use it.
Happy Holy Days
'twas before Christmas & all thru the house
Not a creature was stirring, except for Dormouse...
... Chocolates out of Manchester UK which intersects Brexit, Climate Change, Fair Speech, et.al.
As with tea hungover from a vanquished empire, England will survive its quarrel(s) with the EU one way or another & continue to import cocoa. Some things, like tropical groceries, ppl just gotta have.
As per Climate Change, virtue-signaling among cocoa pod-brains on social media belies that the LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) for cacáo / cocoa / chocolate ain't pretty -- even in agroforestry settings. True, the impact of eating chocolate individually may not rise to the level of flying private. Then again, billions consume it everyday where only billionaires jet around in their G650s.
Habits are a helluva drug. Precisely why they're habits. Whether chocolate (morish = more + more), sex (bulging population, everybody?), Xanax (mental dis-ease) or whatever, w'all got at least one addiction.
Finally, to the word-police & censors trolling the multiverse with all the zeal of minders in the PRoC tallying 'social credits', it's no doubt unfair to print anything but praise for chocolate nowadays. Especially when stars, ribbons & medals get passed out freely as credit cards to pile up so much indebtedness (just pay to enter, everyone a winner).
So to sample then update those once-revolting bad boys, The Clash, off their Combat Rock LP, you have the right to free speech, if you're bold enough to use it.
Happy Holy Days
Appearance 4.6 / 5
| Color: |
Philippines: rich brown inlaid by a soft sandstone hue Philippines Dark-Milk: blushing cream Guatemala: ravishing red Guatemala Dark-Milk: pale sienna Toasted White: light Bermuda tan (or in this case, another island -- Madagascar) |
| Surface: | angular geo-mould |
| Temper: | good gloss |
| Snap: | sharp grade |
Aroma 7.9 / 10
Philippines
71.5% cacáo-content; Kablon Farms, The Philippines
deep fudge
roasted cashew
floral top-note
Philippines Dark-Milk
56% cacáo-content; Kablon Farms, The Philippines
dense milk chocolate fudge packed to a near cocoa-cheese density (in the vein of Stilton blue)
Guatemala
72% cacáo-content; Lachuá, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala
black butterscotch treacle
Guatemala Dark-Milk
51.5% cacáo-content; Lachuá, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala
horrendous
out chunks pig-vomit & rectal drivel
foul from both ends
Toasted White
38% cacáo-butter content; Madagascar
berried-chocolate cuts thru a fine roasted cedar
71.5% cacáo-content; Kablon Farms, The Philippines
deep fudge
roasted cashew
floral top-note
Philippines Dark-Milk
56% cacáo-content; Kablon Farms, The Philippines
dense milk chocolate fudge packed to a near cocoa-cheese density (in the vein of Stilton blue)
Guatemala
72% cacáo-content; Lachuá, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala
black butterscotch treacle
Guatemala Dark-Milk
51.5% cacáo-content; Lachuá, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala
horrendous
out chunks pig-vomit & rectal drivel
foul from both ends
Toasted White
38% cacáo-butter content; Madagascar
berried-chocolate cuts thru a fine roasted cedar
Mouthfeel 12.1 / 15
| Texture: | somewhat greasy with slight nap |
| Melt: | has some hold |
Flavor 40.3 / 50
Philippines
indeterminate starter -> grainy development -> deep caramel fills the void -> coconut -> cashew -> faint mangosteen -> semi-stringent finish rolls over a young Scotch
Bland beginning; the end anything but. Heck of a progression that keeps building to a fine crescendo.
Philippines Dark-Milk
that Stilton head from the aroma wafts in over vanilla-caramel -> Slo-Poke® -> mild bitter undercoat -> caustic dusting of casein at the end
Trad elements mix with the unconventional. Carefully pegged at 56% cacao-content which pares the milk & the cocoa in a shared ratio -- neither dominates; both influence the other. Not the cleanest or smoothest milk powder. The FXs though awoke.
Guatemala
aromatic treacle followed on by sour mash -> small gas leak -> grows wooden with butterscotch varnish -> bad Vermouth at the back spills over into a cream seam (nice) -> cardamom afterburner
so commonly unevenly fermented
Guatemala Dark-Milk
similar dynamic to the Philippines Dark-Milk (above) except less balanced, more caustic, + a winking berry nod toward the back -> caramel -> cement cap stone
Mercifully tastes better than it smells.
Toasted White
A Milk Dud® dressed in bar drag -> Bosco® malt at the back -> extremely recessed sweetened cranberry
Fun, fun, fun til... mommy takes the candy away & the dentist starts drilling.
indeterminate starter -> grainy development -> deep caramel fills the void -> coconut -> cashew -> faint mangosteen -> semi-stringent finish rolls over a young Scotch
Bland beginning; the end anything but. Heck of a progression that keeps building to a fine crescendo.
Philippines Dark-Milk
that Stilton head from the aroma wafts in over vanilla-caramel -> Slo-Poke® -> mild bitter undercoat -> caustic dusting of casein at the end
Trad elements mix with the unconventional. Carefully pegged at 56% cacao-content which pares the milk & the cocoa in a shared ratio -- neither dominates; both influence the other. Not the cleanest or smoothest milk powder. The FXs though awoke.
Guatemala
aromatic treacle followed on by sour mash -> small gas leak -> grows wooden with butterscotch varnish -> bad Vermouth at the back spills over into a cream seam (nice) -> cardamom afterburner
so commonly unevenly fermented
Guatemala Dark-Milk
similar dynamic to the Philippines Dark-Milk (above) except less balanced, more caustic, + a winking berry nod toward the back -> caramel -> cement cap stone
Mercifully tastes better than it smells.
Toasted White
A Milk Dud® dressed in bar drag -> Bosco® malt at the back -> extremely recessed sweetened cranberry
Fun, fun, fun til... mommy takes the candy away & the dentist starts drilling.
Quality 15 / 20