Ice Cream (Dark Chocolate) (SC) (WF) 3.5% (9-8-23) – TWO things hit me RIGHT away, as soon as I loaded this into the first tester. The first was, the Chocolate here, was VERY good, and the second was the “Ice Cream” was rather missing. Diving in, the Chocolate did have some of the typical “darker” notes, BUT, it seemed more centered around a Medium Dark Milk Chocolate. At times, it almost reminded me of MF’s Dark Chocolate tempered with maybe a Bavarian Cream, and possibly another light creamery. This was because there were some dark choco notes in there, but it was like they were sprinkled on top of an otherwise delicious MC.
Moving onto the Ice Cream, I did get a very nice mouthfeel, and creamy/creamery element, which clearly worked to take the rough edges off of the Choco, remove any bitterness, and added to the richness of the flavor, but it just never really took hold of the Ice Cream full on. Now while most people’s sense of an “Ice Cream” will vary, I just didn’t really get it here. No off-notes, no dry-ness, or bitterness from the Chocolate, and NO Band Aids !!! You guys know what I’m referring to, hehe. At 3.5% it was spot on for strength, and was just at mid-level sweet, and it was a damned fine flavor. I think in summary, I would call it more of a medium dark milk chocolate, with some great sprinkles of dark chocolate, layered into a smooth creamery base. I rather struggled how to rate this, because it WAS listed AS an Ice Cream, and I will be marking it down in that regard, BUT, it was damned delicious, none the less. As a creamy Milk/Dark Chocolate blend I would have rated it VERY high, but with the fairly missing “Ice Cream”, I’ll have to leave it at a 8.9/10. Even though I’m rating this below a 9.0, I actually HIGHLY recommend picking this one up, as it was very good, just needed a little push in the Ice Cream department.
