Impact
These beans are squat in a bad mood, rough & tough to teeth thru & probably take weeks to digest once they hit the GI tract. Ideal for slow metabolisms, like Russell the Wombat's, to drop as his signature cubic scat.
Appearance 4.1 / 5
| Color: | what else but cinnamon brown |
| Surface: | Los Rios, Hacienda Iara |
| Temper: | dusted |
| Snap: | n/a |
Aroma 7.6 / 10
neatly balanced between cinnamon & dried cocoa w/ bluestone beneath; yabba dabba dooo
Mouthfeel 11.2 / 15
| Texture: | shrapnel |
| Melt: | indestructible; prepare to pick clumps out of the recessed sublingual corners for days |
Flavor 37.4 / 50
cinnamon cement -> cracks open to dirt & weeds -> spice cache left in a deep-dug burrow w/ a few ground worms, naked roots, & vines -> desiccated cocoa in the rear compartment, crushed by a hard shell fragment -> eventually... a long time in coming... cinnamon gives way to rough & sometimes bitter cocoa express; stringent sour continues tight grip in the after-taste
Quality 16.8 / 20
Ingenuous. A little saving cocoa grace but cinnamon just the coverall stand-in for a spoonful of sugar to help the meds go down. Still, relatively mild for the bean category, thanks to Nacional's rather benign genetic structure.
ING: cocoa bean, sugar, cocoa mass, cacáo butter, cocoa powder, cinnamon
ING: cocoa bean, sugar, cocoa mass, cacáo butter, cocoa powder, cinnamon