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This group is for ChocolateLife members making, or who are interested in making, chocolate from the bean.
"Home Brew" means you haven't gone out and spent millions-you're mixing and matching (and making) what it takes to make it work.
Location: Worldwide
Members: 229
Latest Activity: May 13
The Home Brew Group: Sponsored by CocoaTown
Making chocolate from the bean can be a lot of fun. Some special equipment is required, but the process is pretty easy to learn and to get good at. It must be, some of the biggest names in the craft chocolate biz have started on using kitchen appliances.
The group is sponsored by CocoaTown, the makers and importers of hobbyist and commercial melanguers, grindeurs, and accessories for making chocolate. CocoaTown is offering ChocolateLife members special purchase incentives. Learn more here.
Discussion Forum
Home roasting beans with delicate flavour notes
Started by Gap. Last reply by jorge camacho Jan 29. 1 Reply 3 Likes
Identifying mouldy beans
Started by Gap. Last reply by Gap Jan 28. 3 Replies 0 Likes
Glistening beans during roasting
Started by Gap. Last reply by Gap Dec 14, 2012. 3 Replies 0 Likes
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Comment by Kelly Sayers on March 19, 2013 at 8:49pm -
Hello all,
Has anyone ever had experience with a "chocotec 20" tempering machine? If so could you tell me something about it.. I can't seem to find any information on it.
Thanks so much
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Comment by steve on March 7, 2013 at 9:29pm -
looking for info on panning ,video , books ect . thanks steve
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Comment by Kelly Sayers on February 13, 2013 at 6:56pm
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Thanks Gap
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Comment by Gap on February 13, 2013 at 6:54pm -
Hi Kelly - there are a couple of threads about them on the Chocolate Alchemy forum
http://chocolatetalk.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=equipment&ac...
and
http://chocolatetalk.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=refining&act...
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Comment by Kelly Sayers on February 13, 2013 at 5:52pm
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Hello,
Does anyone have any experience with the Premier wet grinders both the 1.5 liter and the 2L tilting models ?
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Comment by Gap on December 20, 2012 at 3:47pm
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http://www.chocolatealchemy.com/ and its forum has all the reading you need to get started
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Comment by Steven J on December 19, 2012 at 8:44pm -
Can you suggest any reading material or texts that would help in the home brewing process???
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Comment by Klarista Chen on September 26, 2012 at 11:25pm -
Hello Everyone! My name is Klarista and just started to learn about chocolate after visiting a small cacao farm in Indonesia. I'm not sure where to post my question about determining the type of cacao beans. But hopefully (I would be very much appreciated) someone can share their experiences or reading articles on determining the types of cacao beans that Indonesian countries usually harvest. I read on posts that there are three types of cacao beans produced in the world and was wondering how I can classify these beans?
thanks for your attention and help!
Klarista
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Comment by John Marshall on October 5, 2011 at 1:34am -
And if you really want to push boundaries with flavours try this site http://www.foodpairing.com/ or it's sibling less extensive site http://www.foodpairing.be
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Comment by Juan Pablo Buchert on October 4, 2011 at 11:04pm -
Hi Camile, we like
Dark Chocolate + Cardamom + Nutmeg + Cinamon + Chillies
Milk Chocolate + lemon + coriander seeds.
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