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Some time ago I visited a French #chocolate factory called #Encuentro. The Spanish-sounding name has a reason. The couple who founded Encuentro spent several years in the Dominican Republic, where they ran their first chocolate factory.
In 2014 they decided to move back to France and left the business to their associates.

https://www.chocolatencuentro.com/

Their concept is #BeanToBar : from dried and fermented coca beans, they produce chocolate bars by adding just another ingredient: cane sugar.

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RE: https://mastodon.qweb.co.uk/@ric/115725946151578388

I helped with this. Mostly by keeping out of the way and having relevant information to hand, but that's still helping. #ChocolateMaking #BeanToBar

New #Introduction post! 👍

I'm a senior #WebDev & hobbyist #GameDev from #Yorkshire. #Programming since 1996, QWeb Ltd since 2013.

Been making an #MMORPG on/off since ~2004. Current iteration in #Godot but on hold, again. Also making a 3D engine in #Lua for some reason. 🤷‍♂️

I run a #Solar2D marketplace you can sell stuff through. 😉

Also a #BeanToBar #Chocolate maker and occasionally post photos!

I mostly post #PHP snippets, silly errors, and occasional #Whisky photos.

Poss now making a #Z80 😆

New #Introduction post! 👍

I'm a senior #WebDev & hobbyist #GameDev from #Yorkshire. #Programming since 1996, QWeb Ltd since 2013.

Been making an #MMORPG on/off since ~2004. Current iteration in #Godot but on hold, again. Also making a 3D engine in #Lua for some reason. 🤷‍♂️

I run a #Solar2D marketplace you can sell stuff through. 😉

Also a #BeanToBar #Chocolate maker and occasionally post photos!

I mostly post #PHP snippets, silly errors, and occasional #Whisky photos.

Poss now making a #Z80 😆

New #Introduction post! 👍

I'm a senior #WebDev & hobbyist #GameDev from #Yorkshire. #Programming since 1996, QWeb Ltd since 2013.

Been making an #MMORPG on/off since ~2004. Current iteration in #Godot but on hold, again. Also making a 3D engine in #Lua for some reason. 🤷‍♂️

I run a #Solar2D marketplace you can sell stuff through. 😉

Also a #BeanToBar #Chocolate maker and occasionally post photos!

I mostly post #PHP snippets, silly errors, and occasional #Whisky photos.

Poss now making a #Z80 😆

New #Introduction post! 👍

I'm a senior #WebDev & hobbyist #GameDev from #Yorkshire. #Programming since 1996, QWeb Ltd since 2013.

Been making an #MMORPG on/off since ~2004. Current iteration in #Godot but on hold, again. Also making a 3D engine in #Lua for some reason. 🤷‍♂️

I run a #Solar2D marketplace you can sell stuff through. 😉

Also a #BeanToBar #Chocolate maker and occasionally post photos!

I mostly post #PHP snippets, silly errors, and occasional #Whisky photos.

Poss now making a #Z80 😆

New #Introduction post! 👍

I'm a senior #WebDev & hobbyist #GameDev from #Yorkshire. #Programming since 1996, QWeb Ltd since 2013.

Been making an #MMORPG on/off since ~2004. Current iteration in #Godot but on hold, again. Also making a 3D engine in #Lua for some reason. 🤷‍♂️

I run a #Solar2D marketplace you can sell stuff through. 😉

Also a #BeanToBar #Chocolate maker and occasionally post photos!

I mostly post #PHP snippets, silly errors, and occasional #Whisky photos.

Poss now making a #Z80 😆

For the first time since Christmas... IT'S CHOCOLATE MAKING TIME!

1kg of cocoa beans from Finca Paso Cocodrilo, Guatemala. We're about to QC each individual bean as they go into the roaster (holes/cracks in the shell are no good).

We haven't had these beans before and they already smell delicious. Usually they basically smell of vinegar at this stage.

#BeanToBar #Chocolate #ChocolateMaker #ChocolateMaking

Shipping saga finally at an end. The supplier re-sent the missing 6kg of cocoa beans via FedEx, after his re-send via UPS never turned up, and they've just now made it to our door!

Must be nearly time for us to make another batch 😏

#BeanToBar #Cocoa #ChocolateMaker

Our 4kg melanger arrived 😁

#chocolate #chocolateMaker #beanToBar

The buttons came out more like wizard hats, but some cute jars and a day of package design later, we're pretty pleased with how these came out 😁

#chocolate #beanToBar #chocolateMaker #merryChristmas

The resulting 1.3kg of #chocolate after 24 hours in the melanger. Now maturing for a few days before we temper and mould. #beantobar #chocolatemaker

Just added the sugar to our Togo Kekeli #chocolate batch. We're about half way through the melanger process now and it's looking good 😁. #beantobar #chocolatemaker

Cocoa beans roasted, pealed, ground, and now in the melanger for 24 hours with some melted cocoa butter. Sugar will go in tomorrow, and that's all we add! #beantobar #chocolatemaker #chocolate

It's a #chocolate making day! Here's 1kg of Togo Kekeli cocoa beans in our roaster. #beantobar #chocolatemaker

Sick in bed with Covid, but at least I have some proper comfort food.

Two bars of Scottish bean-to-bar chocolate; A 60% Honduras origin dark milk chocolate from Bare Bones Chocolate in Glasgow, and a 40% Hazelnut Gianduja from The Chocolate Tree in Edinburgh.

That should keep me going for a while.

#chocolate #chocolatemaker #beantobar #craftchocolate #scottish #scotland #cacao #hazelnut

Sunday afternoon treat 🍫🍫🍫

This "Damson" #chocolate bar by Zart Pralinen in Austria is actually Liquorice & Sea Salt flavour, and named for my business Damson Chocolate.

When I closed the business I decided to share all our recipes and methods and make them "Open Source". Emile at Zart based the recipe for this bar on mine and won an Academy of Chocolate Award with it!

Open Source rocks, even for chocolate recipes!

#chocolatemaker #beantobar #craftchocolate #openchocolate #cacao #cacaolove