Just over a year, and a lifetime ago, when we were still allowed out to gather in groups and a face mask was part of a beauty regime, I was in Oxford, hungover after a wedding and sampling Linden’s Super Silky 67% milk, £5.75/85g. It remains one of my favourite dark milks. Last week, having had just half a unit over my regular one unit a week of alcohol (in this I am restrained) I woke up again strangely hungover.
Every fool knows that willpower is blasted away in the face of a hangover, as helpless as a leaf meeting a pressure washer on a patio. Thus it was that I hunted every refined carb in the house.
Coincidentally, I had some early-edition new Linden chocolate that I had measured out into tasting-size morsels. Linden is going big in the next few months with white chocolate, so if that’s your thing, do look out for it as I think the range will be hard to beat: yogurt, strawberry, cheesecake to name just three and to add to the already interesting white combinations it does, including coffee nutmeg and coconut.
But I sampled the 65% dark chocolate beer bar – made using chocolatey malt. It tastes biscuity with a hint of coffee. Quite bitter, in a good way, but not comforting – which is what I needed.
The White Russian, a 58%, solid, dark milk with Irish Cream was really interesting and much more indulgent. But what I really fell in love with was the Mango and Date (which will be 48-49% cocoa). Super creamy (milk powder is the main ingredient), it was just what I needed. And it’s out next month.
