You may think the answer to what is good chocolate is simple enough: Any chocolate that tastes delicious to you. Here are a few elements to help you ascertain whether your chocolate does in fact have all the makings of a good chocolate, with an expert eye.
Are you looking for some good Irish Bean to Bar chocolate? You may be pleasantly surprised to learn that there is a fair amount of great Irish Bean to Bar chocolate available throughout the island.
Awards are a tricky subject lately. While it's true that there is great chocolate out there without award stickers, the reality is that the average chocolate consumer awareness on what makes a chocolate good, is still work in progress. Which means that seeing an award sticker on the front of a bar is often THE push-factor when choosing between bars which one knows little about. I know this because when I started my chocolate journey...
What I like doing on a slow afternoon. Comparing random craft chocolates with the same origins, just to see whether I can detect usual flavour suspects. Here, I played with Peruvian Chuncho, Cusco and Piura.
Craft chocolate has an ability to get even the most passive eater interested in what could possibly be seen as a mundane subject - in this case, alternative natural sweeteners. Here we have 3 of the trendier sweeteners found in chocolate, before dehydration of course. Why are these so popular? Because of...
