We are now getting great coffee in Cebu. How about great sipping chocolate?In the past years, Cebu has had a flourishing of craft coffee—passionate baristas brewing coffee for us with careful precision and using world class beans.
If we treat our sipping chocolate the way we treat our coffee, how would it look like? We would have to use whole cacao liquor instead of cocoa powder. Whole means that its cacao butter, which gives chocolate its silky feel, is fully intact. Whole also means the cacao is not alkalinized, a process which tames the wildness of cacao flavor, making it more predictable but also removes the delicious outliers among its notes. The craft chocolate movement is growing worldwide, rebelling against the uniformity and the flattening of flavor that mass production brings. Craft chocolate makers focus instead on bringing out the best bars from each batch of cacao beans. Craft chocolate is a revolution in the world of solid state chocolate. We would like to brew one as well for flowstate chocolate, starting here in Cebu. We invite you to join us: |