BeanCraft – Sierra Nevada, Colombia, Dark 70%

About the bar

This award-winning 70% dark bar by BeanCraft is delightful. The chocolate is bright and well-rounded, with notable notes of dried fruit.

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

This cacao for this bar is sourced from Uncommon Cacao, and cultivated by approximately 80 indigenous smallholder farmers in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range on the Caribbean coast in North Colombia. The cacao is grown under the canopy of the natural forest, together with food crops like corn, yucca, and fruit trees. After manual picking the farmers bring the wet cacao beans to a central fermentation units.

Allergens*

No allergens listed by maker.

Ingredients

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

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