BeanCraft – Kokoa Kamili, Tanzania, Dark 70%

About the bar

This award-winning 70% dark bar from BeanCraft is sweet and approachable, with some floral honey notes and a gentle nutty finish.

About the maker

BeanCraft was founded in 2019 by Nicky and Tom Couch, just before the pandemic hit, after Nicky went on a chocolatier course with a good friend of hers as an experience when their children were little. Based in Bradford on Avon, England, the husband-and-wife duo are a team of just two, although their two teenage children help out with the chocolate tasting – Nicky does the chocolate making, bar wrapping, and finance, whereas Tom focusses mainly on the website and the packaging. BeanCraft’s mission is to make delicious chocolate using as few quality ingredients as possible, while doing justice to the extraordinary effort that goes into the growing the cocoa beans that they use.

The beans

The beans for this bar are sourced from Kokoa Kamili, a social enterprise fermentary who operate by purchasing ‘wet’ cocoa beans directly from smallholder farmers, and then ferment and dry the beans following its post-harvest protocol. The cacao beans are all sourced from the Kilombero Valley, Morogoro Region, so as to raise the profile of Tanzanian cocoa.

Allergens*

May contain nuts

Ingredients

Cocoa beans 69%, sugar 30%, cocoa butter 1%

*Allergen advice: We directly import, and purchase, all products from independent makers and have these shipped by our partner warehouse (which is not certified allergen-free), and so we cannot guarantee that any product will be allergen-free. Even where an allergen is not listed, products may have been produced, shipped, or stored in facilities which handle allergens.

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