Family Holiday Moment

Josef Brown is an expert on the origin Styria, Austria, which has long been crisscrossing the chocolate industry. Because chocolate is saturated with a sense that it-that’s all for a dozen years, he also took the radical step by setting up a small chocolate factory in Bergl, Riegersburg, his birthplace. His vision is to further explore the chocolate taste!

This chocolate factory, later named Zotter Manufacturing GmbH Schokoladen is not very big. The employees were only 41 people and during the June to August, the entire plant closed because of high temperatures in summer and it requires manufacturers to provide refrigerated transport equipment that is too expensive. Making chocolate is also very traditional, without printing the boxes as we often see. Brown flat course, created manually.

The trick is first in the production of `table` sized approximately 1 x 8 m laid paper as base oil. Then pour the liquid chocolate Zotter employees up this paper and flatten with a special tool. After that, the second layer is poured, the contents of these chocolates. Once again coated with a layer of chocolate on top, employees Zotter chocolate that has been cut block this dry boxes sized approximately 5 x 12 cm.

Then, half-finished blocks are dried briefly, then placed on a conveyor coating with a layer of chocolate and finally produce texture, and then dried again. Well, after this, employees Zotter chocolate-brown wrapping one-one by hand! Within an hour of mothers Zotter employees can wrap approximately 300 chocolate bars. Means of production in 2400 only about chocolate bars a day!

So what’s so special? Well, as already mentioned, Josef Zotter want to find a combination of dark chocolate, this was unusual. For example: he used the juice of celery as the ingredients of chocolate! Not only that: there are also chocolate filled with pineapple juice and peppers, cheese, chili, ginger, and even rice!

For this purpose, at a cost of EUR 5 per person, Zotter has chocolate tasting a program. Very creative way: visitors are asked to stand in a sort of bar which was then the curtains opened. Behind the curtain, not a stripper turned up, but a braid like a conveyor belt sushi restaurant running. But they are not sushi, but a piece of chocolate with the name board ready to be tasted.

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