Bean to bar bitterness / astringency problem
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Good Morning @dom-ramsey,
I think I know what your problem is. Are you using beans from local farms? I've had the same problem before, and specially at this time of the year. If so, then your problem is that the beans are not completely dry yet. It took me quite some time to figure out my problem when it had happened to me. I had just the same problem, and got astringend and bitter chocolate even from suppliers that I had good experiances before. I finally figured it out by using beans that were bitter after months of having them just sitting on a drying rack not paying attention to them. And then they made perfectly fine chocolate.
It is sort of like with Walnuts. If not completely dry=bitter!!!
Let me know if I'm right 