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Chocolate Morsel of the Day
If your chocolate is a bit bitter by the end of refining, it may be a sign you over roasted it slightly. Astrigency sometimes indicates under roasting. Both of these assume a cocoa bean with a good track history of good chocolate. There is little chance of making quality chocolate from defective beans.
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