Impact
Good Bauhaus packaging turns to bow-wow-wow & woof in the mouth. Japanese moche / Chinese nian gao (New Year’s bean cake filling). Woa, baby, is that sweet or what... but good textural juxtapose with the White shell.
Appearance 2.1 / 5
rustic-like home-dipped
rustic-like home-dipped
| Color: | sea-sick green |
| Surface: | none to write about other than some settling bubbles from enrobing |
| Temper: | matte w/ no sheen; flat & negative/light sucking luster denoting old/stale cocoa butter (been there/worked that) extruded w/ too much heat instead of hydraulics + insufficient conching/tempering to get good gloss |
| Snap: | well-defined for an enrobed white |
Aroma 3.6 / 10
freeze-dried milk, rubber, Vibram (heavy duty boot soles)
Mouthfeel 11.3 / 15
| Texture: | good velvet on the White; slight granulization on the filling |
| Melt: | clean w/in tolerance though uneven pour |
Flavor 20.6 / 50
carnauba wax forward w/ sugar -> more sugar, then sugar again in the middle w/ tiny bean flavor + mild white end…..odd dental office latex at the back (Coppeneur: check the gaskets on the roaster or your press… this one needs to be replaced…. explains the other-worldly rubber back…..yikes
Quality 8.7 / 20
The low end. Lumbering hodgepodge of sugared chemicals