Evergreen Accommodations wins accolade at chocolate awards

Evergreen Accommodations on Wednesday received a gold award within the second part of the UK’s Golden Bean Awards for its Peach Oolong Tea Chocolate.

The annual occasion is held by the Academy of Chocolate to acknowledge the very best cocoa beans and chocolate merchandise from all over the world.

The hotelier received the award within the class of “Ganache with Alcohol, Fruit, Spices and/or Different Inclusions” beneath “Crammed Goodies.”

It additionally received three silver and two bronze awards in the identical class, and received one other silver within the “Flavoured Darkish Chocolate Bar” class beneath “Flavoured Chocolate Bars” for its Tieguanyin Tea Chocolate.

In the meantime, Meiho College in Pingtung County received three silver awards within the “Flavoured” class for its 65 p.c Taiwan Solar Moon Lake Black Tea Consuming Chocolate, 78 p.c Taiwan Alishan Jin Xuan Tea Consuming Chocolate, and 75 p.c Taiwan Charcoal Roasted Oolong Tea Consuming Chocolate.

Lin Wei-chun (林韋君), a Taiwanese member of the Golden Bean Awards jury, mentioned that when the academy introduced its first-phase outcomes final month, she was glad to see that substances from Taiwan had been used to make sweets, saying this might assist additional introduce Taiwanese meals merchandise to the Western world.

Launched in 2005, the awards “sought to establish, acknowledge and showcase the world’s most proficient chocolate producers and most interesting sweets,” the academy’s Website online says.

All sweets are graded by at the least seven judges accepted by the Awards Committee primarily based on the standard of six attributes: “look/ornamental approach,” “flavouring/formulation/idea,” “execution,” “flavour stability,” “aftertaste/end,” and “general impression,” the Website online says.