Chocolate with Guinness and Baileys

With the holiday season, alcohol flavoured chocolate make brief visits into our supermarkets.  This year we tasted 2 bars from an Irish company, Lir Chocolates.  Their bars are made with chocolate from the UK and Belgium.

BAILEYS ORIGINAL MILK CHOCOLATE BAR

This was quite sweet.  The milk chocolate was quite snappy.  You could taste more sweetness than chocolate taste, but we did like the Baileys filling.  The milk chocolate and Baileys flavour combo is nice.

GUINNESS TRUFFLE CHOCOLATE

This bar has a ganache that is flavoured with Guinness beer and is encased in a dark chocolate shell.  You can taste the chocolate in this one, but OH MY beer and dark chocolate is an awesome flavour combo.  The chocolate is this bar is very average, but we LOVED the beer flavour with it.  We immediately started talking about some craft dark chocolate single origins we think it would pair well with, like ashiness of the Foundry Chocolate Papua New Guinea, Kulkul Karkar island single origin.  Experiments are going to happen!