BeanCraft – Lachua, Guatemala, Dark Milk 55%

About the bar

This 55% dark milk bar from BeanCraft is fudgy and fruity, with tasting notes of dried fruits, caramel, fudge, raisins, and juicy strawberries.

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 200 hectares surrounding Lake Lachua, Guatemala, are home to the Q’eqchi’ Maya, who rely on the traditional cultivation of cocoa, honey, cardamom, and corn for their livelihoods. They have partnered with Cacao Verapaz, the Guatemalan division of Uncommon Cacao, to centrally ferment and export their high-quality, fine-flavour beans to the international market.

Allergens*

Milk, may contain nuts

Ingredients

Cocoa beans 44%, sugar 30%, cocoa butter 11%, milk powder 15%

*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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