NearyNógs – Irish Sodabread, Dark 60%

TASTING NOTES

This bar is perfect for those who love textured chocolate. Traditional Irish soda bread, gently toasted and crushed into small and big bits, have been swirled into NearyNógs’ 60% Togo bean.

ABOUT THE MAKER

NearyNógs was founded in 2011 by the husband-and-wife team of Shane and Dorothy Neary. Situated in County Down at the base of the Mourne Mountains and overlooking the Irish Sea, NearyNógs is dedicated to bringing you delicious, ethically sourced chocolate flavoured with the finest local ingredients.

THE BEANS

The beans in this bar are sourced via Silva Cacao, and are grown in a region spanning 57,000 km between Ghana and Benin. The area, Mount Agou Plateaux stretches along Togo’s main river, Mono. The climate here is ideal for cultivating cacao, with average temperatures of 26 degrees celsius, and rainfall which exceeds 1000 mm each year. Cocoa is Togo’s third biggest export product, and the cacao produced at Togo Kekeli is expertly processed to highlight the beans nature buttermilk and chocolate mousse notes.

These beans are farmed by Abra from her 100 hectares cocoa farm, near Mount Agou. Abra is the founder and director of Kekeli cooperative, of which 290 smallholder farmers are associated member and co-owner. The farmers have between 0.5 to 3 hectares of cacao on their land. Around 100 associated farmers bring their wet beans for central fermentation, with others applying controlled heap fermentation on their own farm. The dried beans are collected and screened and packed by Kekeli cooperative.

Allergens*

Cereals containing gluten, milk

Ingredients

60% cacao bean, sugar, cocoa butter, irish soda bread (wheat flour, bicarbonate of soda, buttermilk, salt)

*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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