Qantu – Freestyle – Very Crunchy – Dark 65%

Description

Where most chocolate makers, and certainly the smaller bean to bar chocolate makers, choose to strive for a perfect degree of grinding – grinding the cocoa (and sugar) in such a way that the perfect size remains in so many microns so that you certainly do not have a grainy structure left over, and not ground too finely, which ultimately does not benefit the experience. The grinding is done with care, and makers often choose to use their own style, especially with the addition of cocoa butter or not, and the amount thereof. This way you get a whole range of textures, from the enormous creaminess of Pralus and Omnom via Friis Holm to the very coarsely ground chocolates of Taza at the other end of the spectrum – and above all, a lot of them somewhere at a nice point in between.

Qantu normally has the grind at a pleasant and quite perfect point for us – they don’t just put anything in it, but in this chocolate they do it completely differently, and that is a deliberate choice.

Qantu is a Canadian maker with a great love for cocoa from Peru, and with this chocolate they wanted to pay tribute to the cocoa sourcing trips to that country, in order to stay closer to the cocoa and get closer to the experience and taste of cocoa . They do this with minimal roasting, which preserves many of the flavors that are also in the raw/unroasted cocoa, and with a very rough grind, which leaves a very grainy structure – very crunchy.

Finally, a cocoa percentage of 65% was chosen. And then you should know that cocoa that is more roughly ground, and where the sugar is also less ground, immediately gives a sweeter experience (at least for us). Very different from if you continue to grind this chocolate for much longer, even though the cocoa percentage is identical.

They further say: Inspired by their cocoa purchasing trips, Maxim and Elfi wanted to share the flavors with you as they discover them at the source: raw, pure and aromatic. The cocoa is minimally roasted and ground, the result: a crispy, invigorating and INDEPENDENT chocolate!

Made with cocoa from the area of Ayacucho, Peru.

Taste notes: blackcurrant. cedar, crunchy.

Ingredients: cocoa beans, cane sugar, cocoa butter.

Allergy note from the makers: may contain traces of milk and nuts.