Dark Chocolate

There is a wide variety of dark chocolate recipes to choose from – each with its own unique taste sensation, ranging from extra bitter to mild and aromatic. Each recipe carries the Callebaut quality guarantee. That means that you can rely on the taste and quality of each Finest Belgian dark chocolate, as they remain constant – today, tomorrow and always.

And with the variety of liquidities offered, you will easily find the perfect dark chocolate for your application. The number of drops indicates the degree of liquidity.

Dark Chocolate

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Description	Name	Ref.	% Cocoa solids	Packaging
Dark, extra bitter. High cocoa content	Strong	70-30-38NV	70.4%	Block - 5 kg Callets^TM - 2.5 kg and 10 kg bag
Dark, extra bitter. High cocoa content	Strong	70-30-42NV	69.9%	Block - 5 kg Callets^TM - 10 kg bag

Dark and bitter. High cocoa content	Intense	60-40-38NV	60.1%	Block - 5 kg Callets^TM - 10 kg bag
		60-40-41NV	60.0%	Block - 5 kg
		L-60-40NV	60.3%	Block - 5 kg Callets^TM - 10 kg bag

Subtle bitter cocoa taste	Refined	835NV	54.5%	Block - 5 kg

Pronounced bitter cocoa taste	Excellent	2815NV	57.8%	Block - 5 kg Callets^TM - 2.5 kg and 10 kg bag
Pronounced bitter cocoa taste	Excellent	815NV	56.8%	Block - 5 kg Callets^TM - 10 kg bag

Well-balanced bitter cocoa taste	Select	7811NV	56.9%	Block - 5 kg
		811NV	53.8%	Block - 5 kg Callets^TM - 1 - 2.5 and 10 kg bag
		C811NV	52.3%	Callets^TM - 2.5 kg and 10 kg bag
		D811NV	51.8%	Block - 5 kg
		L811NV	47.8%	Block - 5 kg Callets^TM - 1 - 2.5 and 10 kg bag

Well-rounded bitter cocoa taste	Mild	4805NV	52.5%	Block - 5 kg Callets^TM - 10 kg bag
		805NV	50.7%	Block - 5 kg Callets^TM - 2.5 kg and 10 kg bag
		F805NV	47.5%	Callets^TM - 10 kg bag

Dark and sweet	Smooth	2804NV	54.1%	Block - 5 kg Callets^TM - 10 kg bag

New Intense cocoa taste. Very high cocoa content.	Powerful	80-20-44NV	80.1 %	Callets^TM - 2.5 kg bag
Shelf life : 24 months after production date

Finest Belgian Chocolate

What makes Callebaut chocolate so unique?

Cocoa beans are selected, roasted and ground by Callebaut itself: a rarity among chocolate makers.

Callebaut is one of the rare chocolate makers that still selects, roasts and grinds its own cocoa beans. Thanks to our special connections with the cocoa growers, we have access to the best cocoa beans for every single one of our chocolate recipes. We’re proud too to be one of the few chocolate makers that roasts the cocoa beans itself. Furthermore, the beans are roasted in their entire shell, to protect them and keep in all the aromas and subtleties. This yields a more intense, more complex and deeper cocoa flavour. A flavour that you will recognise in every classic Callebaut couverture chocolate.

The finesse of your craftsmanship demands the finest chocolate.

Callebaut grinds all the ingredients extremely fine – much finer than most other chocolate makers. This fineness yields such tiny particles that they can never be sensed individually by the tongue or taste buds. The ingredients are then conched with the same precision and patience until the texture, aroma, taste and flavours are almost ready. Adding pure cocoa butter and a dash of natural vanilla rounds off the taste and texture of the chocolate. It’s at this moment that all ingredients become one and melt together on the tongue. It’s at this precious moment that the chocolate merits its stamp of quality and authenticity as “Callebaut Finest Belgian”.

Your creativity and productivity deserve chocolates you can rely on. Today. Tomorrow. Always.

Over the generations, from father to son, our oldest customers have found that the taste, the workability and the quality of Callebaut couvertures never change. There is never any need to add cocoa butter or cocoa liquor. Callebaut chocolate couvertures remain consistent and reliable. And they always will. Callebaut guarantees chocolates that enable you to work quickly and efficiently; chocolate in Callets™ for instance that can be processed faster than any other chocolate and allow you to achieve excellent end results. This promise lies embedded in the genes of Callebaut – and in every Finest Belgian Chocolate.

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Powerful: The new Finest Belgian Dark Chocolate

It’s time for more. It’s time to meet a chocolate that gives your creations more power, more flavour and an unequalled chocolate boost. That’s why Callebaut developed the new benchmark in dark chocolates: Powerful, with 80% cocoa.

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Useful Information

A guide to the perfect dark chocolate couverture

"When meeting colleague-professionals all over the world, I am often asked the question: "which dark chocolate couvertures are the perfect choice for me?" Let me try to guide you in selecting the most suitable ones. Or better: let me try to point the direction, since selecting the appropriate chocolate is a question of taste in the first place." (Jean-Pierre Wybauw - Callebaut Technical Advisor)

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Callebaut offers you a true bouquet

Callebaut’s chocolates are not only the result of a great tradition, but also the fruit of nature’s best. In each of our chocolates you can taste the finest grades of cocoa beans, a select choice of ingredients and 100% pure cocoa butter. Today, Callebaut takes its chocolates even a step beyond…

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Tempering chocolate has never been easier!

Tempering chocolate is a necessary step in creating the ideal chocolate products.
* It makes it easier to un-mould chocolate, pralines… (with maximum shrinkage).
* It gives your chocolate a hard, shiny surface with a uniform colour (no lines, no grey colour). In short: chocolate that looks tasty and snaps when you break it.
* It creates excellent chocolate with a very fine crystallisation structure instead of a granular texture.
However, tempering chocolate by the traditional method is a rather complicated process.

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Useful information

In this brochure, we give answers to the following questions:
* How to store chocolate and why.
* How to melt chocolate.
* How to temper chocolate. What is tempering for?
* What is the ideal temperature for workshops, moulds and fillings?
* How to cool chocolate.
* How to store finished products.

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We're proud to offer you the Finest Belgian Chocolate

You go to the utmost in creativity and craftsmanship, we go to the same lengths for our chocolate.
To contribute to your success, we guarantee chocolates that meet your expectations - always.
The finesse of your craftsmanship, marks the fineness of our chocolate.

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