Taste Like an Expert, with Sunita and Dr. Alan!
Channel: Sunita de Tourreil
Date: 22/02/2022

In our first monthly tasting, we do a deep dive into roasting! Together, Sunita and Dr. Alan bring a few decades of experience in this niche market. Together they collaborated on special releases, co-created new business models that served both the makers, the curators and the customers. True innovators and veterans in the field of craft chocolate, you don't want to miss these tastings! 



First we taste two sets of cacao nibs: one with a light roast and the other with a dark roast. Before going further we talk about how using the terms "light" and "dark" is too simplistic, temperatures and length of exposure is key too! Alan draws us a cute little graph that elightens us all.... and then we blind taste 6 craft chocolate maker's bars. 



We reveal the mystery bars at the end, and then further geek out about other chocolate related topics. Warning: these tastings are not for the surface skimmers, this is easily for industry folks, and also for the chocolate aficionados who have a deep and burning passion for chocolate. For makers who would like to be able to read the chat as folks tasted your bars, please reach out to me, and I can send you the Zoom recording which includes the chat. :) 


You will spot some chocolate industry gliteratti: Estelle Tracy of 37 Chocolates joined us, Karla and Eddie of CRU Chocolate chime in, Karla Schade of Opening Chocolate had some thoughts on butyric acid flavors, we also had a fellow Canadian with Taylor Kennedy of SIRENE Chocolate, several folks from the Good Food Foundation were partaking as well, fellow retailer and confectioner Maya Schoop-Rutten of Chocolat MAYA in Santa Barbara, Seneca of Lonohana Estate Chocolate provided us with the cacao nibs, and last but not least, from our co-hosted earlier podcast Unwrapped: Brian Beyke chimed in with great questions and some parallels to coffee. 



We hope these recordings can be of service, as the craft chocolate world develops and more folks want to understand quality, price and flavor. If you want to get in on the next one (live on March 26th, 2pm Pacific), order your box by February 28th, 2022. You can also get your box and watch the recording if your Saturday is a busy one! 


https://www.happychocolateexperiences.com/tastelikeanexpert/