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Original Beans Collection
Our Craft Cacaos
Every journey starts with a single bean
We go to the farthest corners of the globe to bring you the rare. Since 2008, our intrepid Bean Team ventures into the most remote, most biologically diverse and most threatened ecoregions - or simply: the biodiversity hotspots - to bring original beans to you.
Know your beans
Knowing where your cacao is from goes beyond pointing to a place on a map. It’s knowing that the environment around it is protected, the people who cultivate it empowered and the plants from which it grows regenerated. In addition to pure, delicious taste, that’s the promise every bar of Original Beans keeps. Share the rare. And spare it.
PURELY DELICIOUS
Cacao is craft
Fermentation is a microbiological miracle. Good fermentation makes goodfood - from grapes, milk, sourdough, and … Original Beans cacaos.
Ourcraft of cacao starts with the craft of regenerative farming. It movesthrough fermentation (mostly spontaneous), drying (sun only), storing(zero fumigation), roasting (slow and low), grinding (16my particles),conching (medium long) and tempering (gentle, gentle). Where cacao endsand chocolate starts is anyone’s crafty guess.
Ourcraft of cacao starts with the craft of regenerative farming. It movesthrough fermentation (mostly spontaneous), drying (sun only), storing(zero fumigation), roasting (slow and low), grinding (16my particles),conching (medium long) and tempering (gentle, gentle). Where cacao endsand chocolate starts is anyone’s crafty guess.
Know your beans
Rare cacaos
Beans of wisdom, our select tribal cacaos represent the deep history and commitment of the indigenous tribes who know—and grow—them best. Their singular tastes revive long-forgotten human experiences of living in harmony with nature. Truly exclusive, they have no peer in making a higher social or environmental impact.
No place is too high (the 1200m at which our Cusco Chuncho grows) nor too hidden (the wild Beniano that can only be reached by boat) to collect the rarest of beans. These chocolates’ flavours travel to the far reaches of the imagination
These ultra rare beans (nearly extinct in the case of Piura Porcelana and Papua Kerafat upon their rediscovery) are aromatic time capsules from the earth’s remotest regions like the amazingly biodiverse Udzungwa Mountain National Park.
Know your beans
Rare cacaos
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TRibal
Rarest
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BENI AMAZON, BOLIVIA
Safeguard wild cacao lands, home to
the vivid blue-throated macaws
the vivid blue-throated macaws
Open sourcing
Craft Cacao Standard
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 flavor defects, to social injustice to environmental degradation.
To assure tasty beans that go down well in every respect, we have created the world's first and only craft cacao standard. Think of a standard as a to-do list. With the Craft Cacao Standard we offer an open source to-do list on how to make good beans in manners that regenerate our world.
Here is the Standard for you. You want to directly taste and test top-rated craft cacaos? Allow us to hook you up with Cacao Latitudes, our friends and partners in the craft cacao trade. Whatever your interest, connect to us today.
