Our Craft Cacaos
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.
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
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
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.
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
Select
TRibalRarest
of Rareultra
rarerare
the vivid blue-throated macaws
Open sourcing
Craft Cacao Standard
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