Good deal.  Yeah it looks like cocoa.  I have plenty of seeds on backup so I may just try and refine this until it gets that light color.  Or do you think it would be better to use that and convert to hcl and then grab the needle/crystals?

At this point I'm more interested in the making of it than the ingestion, that will happen on it's own time.

So my three options:

1) clean, clean, clean, and see how white I can get it as fb.

2) convert it as is to hcl, and see what shows up.

3) a combo of the 2 and get is as clean as I can as a fb and then convert it over to hcl.

What's the most precision based step here do you think?

If I can just dump the end results fb into some lemon juice, it has me thinking I just refine this as far as seems reasonable in the fb state and then toss it in the lemon juice when it comes time to, go for broke.