24 Blackbirds – Kokoa Kamili, Tanzania, Dark 75%

About the bar

This bar from 24 Blackbirds is made with beans from the Kilombero Valley in Tanzania. The bar carries fruity flavours, with notes of jammy blackberries and bright red fruit.

About the maker

24 Blackbirds was founded by Mile Orlando, a marine biologist SCUBA diver turned chocolate maker. After 10 years of being a career scientist, Mike felt he was lacking in creative aspects, and discovered the world of chocolate during the process of building his own coffee roaster. What started in his kitchen with a pound of cocoa beans, a juicer, and a toaster oven, has now turned into a small-scale artisan chocolate company, complete with it’s very own chocolate factory stocked with home-built and modified equipment.

The beans

The beans for this bar are sourced from Kokoa Kamili, a social enterprise fermentary who operate by purchasing ‘wet’ cocoa beans directly from smallholder farmers, and then ferment and dry the beans following its post-harvest protocol. The cacao beans are all sourced from the Kilombero Valley, Morogoro Region, so as to raise the profile of Tanzanian cocoa.

Allergens*

No allergens listed by maker.

Ingredients

Cocoa beans, 70% sugar 25%, cocoa butter 5%

*Allergen advice: We directly import, and purchase, all products from independent makers and have these shipped by our partner warehouse (which is not certified allergen-free), and so we cannot guarantee that any product will be allergen-free. Even where an allergen is not listed, products may have been produced, shipped, or stored in facilities which handle allergens.

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