Bean-to-Bar Chocolate

Taste the Amazing Difference of "Bean to Bar" Chocolate

Bean-to-Bar chocolate is like having a direct link from the cocoa farm to your taste buds, ensuring a richer, purer chocolate experience. Here's why it's a game-changer:

Control and Quality:

Every step of the process, from sourcing beans to crafting the final product, is meticulously overseen. This control ensures a high-quality, consistent product that's often superior in taste and texture.

Unique Flavors:

Bean-to-bar chocolate makers highlight the natural flavors of the beans, rather than blending many beans in the typical fashion of mass-produced chocolate. Many of our chocolate bars are single orgin, coming from a single country or even a single farm. This leads to a diverse and nuanced flavor profile that bulk production chocolates can't match. Each bar tells its own story.

Transparency and Ethics:

This method emphasizes ethical sourcing and sustainability, often involving direct trade with cocoa farmers. It's chocolate you can feel good about eating, knowing it supports fair labor practices and environmental sustainability.

Artisanal Craftsmanship:

Small-batch production allows for artisanal techniques and personal touches that result in a chocolate that's crafted with passion and expertise. These chocolate bars are not filled with unknown ingredients and we carry both organic and vegan options.

Supporting the Best Chocolate Artisans!

We've partnered with exceptional chocolate makers, who are passionate about their craft.

Brasstown Craft Chocolate:

Based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, this small artisanal chocolate company has an enthusiasm for high quality, craft chocolate. They are involved in the entire chocolate making process, from bean to bar, from roasting to wrapping! They use certified organic cacao beans grown on local plantations, supporting local producers and fair trade practices, improving and helping the actual farmers and promoting sustainable farming. Their chocolate has won multiple awards.

Raaka Chocolate:

Raaka Chocolate began with the vision that better chocolate starts from scratch, with high quality, single-orgin cacao. They believe strongly in "transparent trade", that the cacao farmers are paid higher wages and consumers understand what they are paying for and how they are supporting small business. Their chocolate bars are organic, vegan, dairy-free, soy-free and gluten-free.

Lake Champlain Chocolates:

A family owned, B certified company, in Burlington, Vermont, Lake Champlain Chocolates pursues creating extraordinary, great tasting chocolate. 100% of the chocolate they use is fair trade certified and all of their ingredients are non-GMO and organic. They also offer vegan options. They dare to do better and always with passion.

Mayana Chocolate:

Based in Spooner, Wisconsin, husband and wife, Daniel and Tamara, owners of Mayana Chocolate, believe if you are going to make chocolate, it should be the best chocolate ever! They have won multiple awards, including in 2016 Mayana being named in the “Top Ten Chocolatiers in America” by Dessert Professional Magazine and in 2017 and 2018 they were the recipients of the “Good Foods Award” in the confectionary category for the Space Bar, Coconut Dream Bar and the Mayan Spice Bar.