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New Chocolate Brands from Keylink

Posted: 07 Nov 2016

 

Keylink - The one-stop shop for everyone working with chocolate
The Keylink chocolate portfolio is now more comprehensive, more diverse, and more exciting than ever before. These are chocolate brands with great stories and distinctive taste personalities at their heart. Whatever the experience you want to craft with chocolate, Keylink, the chocolate specialists, have a world of chocolates for you to discover.
Barry Callebaut is the ideal solution for businesses looking for a chocolate boasting both convenience and consistency. Mainly produced in the UK and packed in 25kg boxes, Barry Callebaut supplies great value chocolates which are particularly popular in the baking sector
Cacao Barry chocolates are produced in France and offer many different and amazing flavour characters. The range includes standard grades of chocolate couvertures of very high quality, and the Purity From Nature range, utilising Cacao Barry’s approach of Quality Fermentation. This technique optimises the fermentation process and results in pure and intense cocoa flavours which are conveyed through to the finished chocolate. Cacao Barry Origin couvertures offer cocoa beans from one specific country or region. Each is truly individual and allows its defining flavours to speak for themselves. Plantation chocolates offer flavours that alter as the seasons change, depending on the climate and soil, offering you dramatic notes to excite your taste buds and pair with seasonal fruits. In essence, the Cacao Barry range enables you, the chocolate craftsman, the ability to add a signature flavour to your chocolate creations.
Cacao Barry chocolates are produced in France and offer many different and amazing flavour characters. The range includes standard grades of chocolate couvertures of very high quality, and the Purity From Nature range, utilising Cacao Barry’s approach of Quality Fermentation. This technique optimises the fermentation process and results in pure and intense cocoa flavours which are conveyed through to the finished chocolate. Cacao Barry Origin couvertures offer cocoa beans from one specific country or region. Each is truly individual and allows its defining flavours to speak for themselves. Plantation chocolates offer flavours that alter as the seasons change, depending on the climate and soil, offering you dramatic notes to excite your taste buds and pair with seasonal fruits. In essence, the Cacao Barry range enables you, the chocolate craftsman, the ability to add a signature flavour to your chocolate creations.
Cacao Barry chocolates are produced in France and offer many different and amazing flavour characters. The range includes standard grades of chocolate couvertures of very high quality, and the Purity From Nature range, utilising Cacao Barry’s approach of Quality Fermentation. This technique optimises the fermentation process and results in pure and intense cocoa flavours which are conveyed through to the finished chocolate. Cacao Barry Origin couvertures offer cocoa beans from one specific country or region. Each is truly individual and allows its defining flavours to speak for themselves. Plantation chocolates offer flavours that alter as the seasons change, depending on the climate and soil, offering you dramatic notes to excite your taste buds and pair with seasonal fruits. In essence, the Cacao Barry range enables you, the chocolate craftsman, the ability to add a signature flavour to your chocolate creations.
CasaLuker is one of two new additions to the Keylink offering; a range of chocolates and cocoa products from Colombia and neighbouring countries. CasaLuker only uses International Cocoa Organisation classified “Fino de Aroma”, or Fine Flavour Criollo and Trinitario beans to make their chocolate. Only the top 7-8% of the world’s cocoa is given this exclusive title. The beans are harvested and made into chocolate in Colombia using cocoa butter from the same beans and local sugar, making all ingredients fully traceable. CasaLuker 1906 single origin chocolates each have unique profiles thanks to the purity of their origins. Made from selected beans from the various regions and neighbouring countries where Fino de Aroma cocoa is grown, they positively burst with flavour! Their tastes reflect the specific cocoa variety as well as the richness of the soil and the cocoa growing tradition of the area. For an intense cocoa hit, we are pleased to include two 85% chocolates, Tumaco and Santander in this range. CasaLuker Cacao uses Fino de Aroma cocoa beans to create blends from different regions, all within Colombia. We have also introduced Panela, a non-refined raw sugar made from dehydrated cane juice, and three chocolates made using Panela. In addition we now supply CasaLuker cocoa powder, cocoa butter and cocoa mass, all made from Fino de Aroma beans, and Luker Maracas – dark chocolate cocoa nibs, roasted cocoa nibs and physalis fruits coated in dark Fino de Aroma chocolate.
Lubeca is a German brand whose chocolates are particularly well known for their incredibly smooth mouthfeel and high shine, which is achieved by intensively grinding the mass until the solid matter particle size is reduced to around 16 microns (sixteen thousandths of a millimetre). A lengthy conching process also ensures a very clean and mellow taste, accentuating the quality and flavour characteristics of the cocoa. Owned by the Friedrich Bluhme & Else Jebsen Foundation, Lubeca is a charitable organisation that donates their earnings to worthy projects in and around the city of Lubeck.
Moo Free chocolate is also new to Keylink, and is dairy free, gluten free, organic and vegan. This milk chocolate alternative couverture is also completely free from lactose, casein, wheat, soya and GM ingredients. The cows’ milk has been replaced with rice milk to create a surprisingly authentic milk chocolate taste, and the chocolate is made in an entirely dairy free and gluten free environment. These couverture drops are available in two kilogram boxes.
Schokinag (previously known as DeZaan) offers high quality, competitively priced Belgian chocolate. Our range of Schokinag core grades has been a trusted favourite of many chocolatiers for over 25 years, selected for their quality, and their suitability for all applications.
Veliche Gourmet Belgian chocolate (previously deZaan Gourmet) enjoys a strong tradition of chocolate making. This range centres around purity and simplicity, offering differing taste profiles from well-balanced dark chocolate couvertures to the finest Belgian milk chocolate couvertures and a rich, creamy white chocolate, all perfect for artisan production.
Chocolatiers are increasingly using a broader spectrum of chocolates in order to fully take advantage of the exhilarating variety now available on the market, and in the knowledge that a diverse chocolate offering enables them to increase their profits and provide customers with truly superb chocolate experiences! Our sales team are able to advise you on choosing the right chocolates for you. Speak to them on 0114 245 5400, or visit our website for further information and inspiration. To try a new chocolate in the Keylink family, request a sample with your next order.
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