From Bean to Bar: The Craft Chocolate Revolution

From Bean to Bar: The Craft Chocolate Revolution

It was 2011 when me and Friederike bought our first little stone grinder to start making chocolate. We had heard that we could make our own chocolate from ‘bean to bar’ using these wet stone grinders which were built in India to grind spices. We sourced a bag of Ecuadorian cacao beans and went to work roasting in our baker’s oven, peeling the shells off by hand and using a hairdryer to separate the inner cocoa nibs. The nibs are half fat, so whe…