Bean to bar chocolate

Chocolate is more commonly being made directly from cacao beans by a single producer. Carefully chosen beans are roasted, ground & mixed with sugar (and milk powder) to make the most amazing chocolate you have ever tasted!

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Who WhatTwenty-Four Blackbirds ChocolateWhere Santa Barbara has great wine and Mexican food, but have you heard there’s a bean-to-bar chocolate maker producing some insanely good chocolate? Mike Orlando of Twenty-Four Blackbirds is DIY to the nthIn 2010 Mike, his girlfriend Elaine, and his sister Gina started Twenty-Four Blackbirds.

One of our favorite Festival treats -- Drinking Chocolate -- can be found at The Chocolate Experience: From Bean to the Bar Hosted by Ghirardelli Chocolate Company! In 2019, this spot will be located

Megan Giller, author of Bean-to-Bar: America’s Craft Chocolate Revolution, on what it all means for our national sweet tooth.

Craft chocolate is a movement that enthusiast and retailer Luke Owen Smith reckons is on the cusp of becoming a deliciously big thing. Dish takes a flavoursome journey into the bean-to-bar world to find out what’s in store.

Are you looking to make bean to bar chocolate at home or start a small chocolate making business? We’ve put together a list of the most essential equipment.

It is a long process to produce chocolate from cocoa beans, and possibly the most important stage is roasting. But how exactly do you roast cocoa beans?