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Berlin

Flavour Fusion!
Original Beans
+ Paper & Tea

An exciting fusion of taste and innovation: Original Beans and Paper & Tea present a new partnership celebrating quality, sustainability, and regenerative values.

Amsterdam

Vegan Pecan Caramel Pop made with Original Beans

We’ve teamed up with our friends over at The Nice Company to create a treat that’s much more than just a good popsicle. Their new Vegan Pecan Caramel pop doesn’t just taste good, it’s also good for our planet and the people around you. An organic Nice pop and Fair+ Original Beans chocolate; a lovely combo.

Cologne

ISM (International Trade Fair for Sweets and Snacks)

Together with the colleagues of the Club der Confiseure, Germany's most distinguished chocolate makers, we kicked off the world's largest sweets fair, ISM, with a key note and some serious talk, followed by a collective booth to meet and greet community as well as customers.

Amsterdam

Chocolate Scorecard Winner 2024

Many chocolate companies claim they are championing sustainability, but where is the proof? Enter the Chocolate Scorecard, a rigorous testing system to do just that. In 2023 Original Beans were ranked as No1, and were the only company to receive Green Eggs in every category. This year we are proud to say that we have retained our title, as winners of the Good Egg Award in 2024!

London

Rare cacao dinner

Hosted by chef, author and presenter Ravneet Gill alongside Philipp Kauffmann, founder of regenerative chocolate company Original Beans. We invited for a cacao-infused dinner featuring revelatory rare chocolate by Original Beans, exploring the true potential of conservation for extraordinary flavour and true sustainability.

London

Positive Luxury Awards 2023

We're thrilled to announce the winners of the Positive Luxury 
Awards 2023! With Philipp Kauffmann as part of the judging panel, it was inspiring to see so many leading #impact innovators in the luxury industry who are making a difference in sustainability. Congratulations to all the winners and let's continue to preserve the rare and take climate action together! 

Amsterdam-Edinburgh

Ocelot Chocolate and Original Beans team up

From October 2022 onwards, Ocelot and Original Beans will be sister companies. Our teams will form one international team, working from more than a dozen countries and representing as many nationalities.  What joins us all is a commitment to growing the craft chocolate movement and making the world a better place.

Amsterdam

Inspiring Impact: Chocolate Foodprint 2023 

At Original Beans, we believe that great chocolate should not only be delicious, but also healthy. That's why we're proud to publish two solid health achievements in our Chocolate Foodprint 2022.

Meet Up

Selected Events

WSB

16. - 17. JUN

ZU TISCH! 24


On June 16th, we invite you to an unforgettable food festival in Wirsberg. Together with FreaksToTable e.V. and over 80 local producers and manufacturers, we’ll celebrate our love for quality ingredients.

MLT

06. JUL

Summer Soiree at

Hotel Gut Immenhof

The idyllic nature Hotel in Malente is celebrating its yearly summer soiree, and of course we can not miss out on that. Join us as we cook up some delicious chocolate creations and ease into summer together.

DUS

30. SEP - 01. OCT
Rolling Pin.Convention

At summer's end, it's time again: the Rolling Pin.Convention takes place, a professional symposium for employees and entrepreneurs in the gastronomy & hotel industry. See you there for a chocolatey touch!
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Resources and Tools

Improve Your Impact

The Craft Cacao Standard

Open sourcing

We joke that you can always make bad chocolate  from good beans, but not the other way around. Bad cacao always reveals itself as unpalatable in too many ways: from flavour defects, to social injustice to environmental degradation. To assure tasty beans that go down well in every respect, we offer here for open sourcing, the world's only Craft Cacao Standard.
12 Steps to end the Climate Crisis

Regeneration Catalogue

To show you why we believe that it is possible to regenerate  what you consume, we have produced a “Regeneration Catalogue”  in collaboration with environmental activist Paul Hawken. Each solution here below introduces an Original Beans chocolate and in turn proves Paul’s key point: Everyone can do it!
Chocolate Foodprint 2022

Inspiring Impact

The Chocolate Foodprint is your dashboard on the impact we make together. The data is collected in the fields and villages by our local Bean Team. They count trees grown, women at work, beans bought, prices paid, and we report them every year. If you want to know more details, click to the Foodprint, the FAQs, follow one of our online tastings, or email us. 
The Chocolate Scorecard 2023

Good Egg Award

We eat chocolate for comfort, celebration, and indulgence. Cocoa is the key ingredient in chocolate. But what is really going on with the sourcing of cocoa? The Chocolate Scorecard Team, a team of independent industry experts and researchers has surveyed the world’s biggest chocolate companies to find out! Download the full report in several languages below: 
Cacao Barometer

The Cocoa Problem Tree

The 2022 Cocoa Barometer provides an overview of the current sustainability developments in the cocoa sector and highlights critical issues that are not receiving sufficient attention at present, discussing a broad range of social, economic, and environmental issues. Read the whole report here: 

Together 100% regenerative

Our 'Made with' Original Beans Programme 

You are a chocolate lover, a cacao grower, a regeneration partner.  You have joined our mission together to regenerate what we consume.  Without you, no impact happens. Some call what connects us a “supply chain”.  But aren’t we rather a value community? Sharing equal values in a community  from the cacao gardens to the food kitchens? Only together, we create the impact. Feel part, feel proud, read on.