A New Chocolate Bar

admin — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:48:37 +0000

Duffy’s Panama Tierra Oscura 72% has recently been launched and is already garnering good reviews. We managed to buy – direct from the farmers – the whole crop of cocoa from the small Bocas del Toro island. This sounds impressive – but the crop was only 350kg.

Whatever the size, these guys certainly know how to grow beans and ferment and dry them properly. The resulting chocolate is excellent – cherries and raisins, liquorice and leather.

We will make a small donation to the Bocas Educational Service Organisation for every kilo of beans that we buy – they are doing good work over there, helping to educate local people.

Duffy’s goes soya-free

admin — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:47:46 +0000

Whenever we attend food and chocolate fairs we see people peering at the back of the label to ask whether it contains various things. Usually this is gluten (none in it) or dairy (only in the milk) but occasionally we are asked about soya. Some people are allergic to it and others have been recommended to avoid it. A few folks asked if it was GM-free and organic.

We use lecithin so that the chocolate is thin enough to pour into moulds. We did use soya lecithin but are changing over to sunflower lecithin. It is still only 0.5% and still doesn’t affect the taste in any way that we can detect.

2011 Academy of Chocolate Awards

admin — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:46:56 +0000

Duffy collecting the “Golden Bean” trophy for his Honduras Indio Rojo – voted the best bean-to-bar entry in the 2011 Academy of Chocolate Awards, jointly with Amadei #9.

Apart from the top overall award Duffy also received a Bronze Award for the Corazon del Ecuador 72% chocolate bar and the Best Newcomer award.

Reviews of Red Star Chocolate can be found on “Chocolate Reviews”

admin — Mon, 31 May 2010 22:07:14 +0000

Reviews of Red Star Chocolate can be found on “Chocolate Reviews”.
Corazon Del Ecuador Milk Chocolate Review can be found here
72% Ecuador Dark Chocolate Review can be found here

Duffy’s Heart of Panama 70% Review on “chocablog”

admin — Tue, 25 May 2010 22:04:13 +0000

Duffy’s Heart of Panama 70% Review on “chocablog” can be found here

Launch of Duffy’s chocolate in London

admin — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:06:25 +0000

Real Food Festival, Earls Court – May 7th to 10th 2010. Launch of Duffy’s chocolate in London.

Red Star Chocolate Factory Review

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:01:20 +0000