Chocolaca instead of Cacao Nibs

[kevin58]

I was listening to a recent Experimental Brewing podcast and one of the commercials was for a product called Chocolaca. The selling point was that it would replace "messy" cacao nibs.

Having never used cacao nibs but wanting to make a porter or stout with a chocolate character I was wondering... how messy are cacao nibs? ... and has anyone use this Chocolaca product?

 

[bribo179]

I have never used Chocolaca but I have used cocao nibs. I just recently brewed a chocolate stout. On brew day I soaked 2 oz of nibs in 8oz of vodka. After ferment I strained the vodka and added it to my beer. It was really easy. Doing this won't make a beer a chocolate bomb and won't add any residual sweetness like syrups will but I really liked the way it turned out.

 

[day_trippr]

Nibs are "messy"? That's crazy talk.
I've been using nibs for years, usually marinaded in dark rum for a week with a couple of scraped and smushed vanilla beans, then the whole works gets dumped in a clean carboy and my chocolate imperial stout gets racked on top. The only "mess" is the Tupperware container that needs a quick wash.

Never used the liquid chocolate. Probably never will...

Cheers!

 

[Cyclman]

Nibs are easy...cholaca is expensive.