Craft
What is bean-to-bar chocolate?
Bean-to-bar means one maker controls the entire process from sourcing raw cacao beans to molding the finished bar — roasting, cracking, grinding, conching, and tempering in-house — instead of melting down industrial couverture.
Why it matters: flavor decisions (roast level, grind time, sugar ratio) are made per batch by the person who chose the beans, which is how single origins keep their character. Most of the ~2,000 makers represented in our catalog work this way, at every cacao level from 30% to 100%.