ask the alchemist video series recent videos contact help/search new cocoabeans and butter july , by founding alchemist i have some interesting offerings coming up. a selection of various ghana and indonesian cocoa that i had the opportunity to share with you. i am still working out how i am going...
vs a cup of coffee... and it seems that ground roastedcocoa on the average costs twice as much as ground roasted coffee, i'm paying times as much for a cup of cocoa than it costs for a cup of joe. crazy. why is cocoa so much more expensive than coffee?...
with the summer months coming on, this was the perfect set of questions to answer. and i'm just going to dive into a number of related questions and answers. yes, we still ship cocoa butter when the weather is hot. yes, it may melt on the way to you. over the years i've learned to double seal the bags...
ask the alchemist video series recent videos contact help/search four new organic cocoabeans september , by founding alchemist you may have noticed there has not been much apparent activity here lately. i have to tell you it does not reflect what has been going on behind the scenes. i am very pleased...
fermented (fermented cocoa almost looks already roasted), roasted and ground for use. cocoabeans come in three primary species, criollo, forastero and trinitario, but there are hundreds of sub-varieties for each. very loosely, criollo is analogous to arabica coffee in that it is the cream of the crop...
fermented (fermented cocoa almost looks already roasted), roasted and ground for use. cocoabeans come in three primary species, criollo, forastero and trinitario, but there are hundreds of sub-varieties for each. very loosely, criollo is analogous to arabica coffee in that it is the cream of the crop...
if you want to go that route. in general, the crop is a little fuller in flavor and in particular has a bit more of a chocolate profile than last years crop but not quite as bright.while i am listing some different beans don't forget about the ecuador "nacional" . i just roasted some up this weekend...
nibs somewhere in one of your blog posts. if roasted nibs are already available for sale, then why do companies go through the trouble of buying whole beans and then roasting them?...
ask the alchemist video series recent videos contact help/search dark milk chocolate - % cocoa august , by founding alchemist this is a really nice dark milk chocolate, but probably nothing like you have ever had. it has a higher than traditional cocoa content. i find i really like it this way as you...