Mast Dark Chocolate 73%

About: The Mast brothers are notorious in chocolate circles for making  their chocolate from bean to bar, or possibly for pretending to while actually just remelting it. There are some distinctly unflattering articles about them and their chocolate. They probably do make their chocolate from beans now, but you couldn't tell by tasting it.

The Mast brothers have been manufacturing a handful of chocolates since 2007 in Brooklyn, and theydistribute their chocolate as an upscale and expensive confection. 



Flavor:  Earthy and perhaps slightly fruity. But nothing overwhelming, which bitter aftertaste.
Texture: Creamy, but slightly chalky.

My rating:  Regular average chocolate. Good points for flavor, demerits for after taste. Credit for creaminess, but demerits for chalkiness.  

Rating Value	Meaning
1	Really bad chocolate. There's something just really really wrong here in almost every imaginable respect.
2	A bar with this rating has at least two drawbacks.
3	A bar where something is starting to get seriously wrong.... for example, really weak flavor with an otherwise acceptable texture.
4	This bar is below average, but just slightly. Mostly it's not worth eating again. Something isn't quite up to par, for example a poor texture but fine flavor.
5	This is an average good bar that's worth eating. There's nothing really wrong with it, but also nothing particularly spectacular. Or, perhaps it has a good characteristic that's evenly counter-weighted by something weak.
6	A solidly good bar with one characteristic that's above par, for example a great texture.
7	An solidly good chocolate that has two above par characteristics, but nothing mind-blowing. Good, above average flavor, but nothing to die for.
8	An excellent bar with no weaknesses and at least one characteristic that's super.
9	An awesome bar to die for with amazing texture and flavor.
10	You have been touched by God.

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