"Special Dark Cocoa" - What is this?

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j2brew

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Hi, I'm looking for a good chocolate stout recipe. I've seen several, including McAustin's, and several of them have a variation on "Special Dark Cocoa" in the ingredients list. Does this mean use the Hershey's candy bars, or some sort of dry cocoa powder, or some wild brewing product that I don't know about yet? If it is the candy bars, do you melt it and pour it in? :confused:

Thanks for any help!

JJ
 
Hershey's milk chocolate bars have very little chocolate in them. Special dark cocoa is presumably cocoa powder. I don't know if "special dark" means anything. Cocoa powder can be Natural or Dutch Process. Does it matter for beer? I don't know.
 
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