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at Mindo, Ecuador, 9 de Octubre, MIndo
Added By: Barbara Wilson
Mindo Chocolate Makers 2014
Chocolate Making Origins: From Tree to Bar
Location: Mindo, Ecuador
Dates: June 9-13, 2014
Cost: $1,250.00 per person (price does not include housing, meals, or transportation to and from Mindo)
Monday June 9
9:00 am-12:00 pm
Chocolate Making from the Bean: micro batches of pure chocolate
We will take a look at Mindo Chocolate Maker’s process and put in our first batch of chocolate.
Tuesday June 10
9:00 am -3:00 pm
Plantation tour to an organic, shade grown, small family farm
Meet a small cocoa farmer and family. Learn about different varieties of cacao plants, learn about different diseases that affect cacao, taste the fruit fresh from the tree, have a chance to harvest cacao and prepare it for fermentation. Typical Ecuadorian lunch included on this day.
Wednesday June 11
9:00 am-12:00 pm
Post Harvest Processing of Cocoa Beans: fermentation to nibs
Hands on experience with the stages of fermentation, drying, roasting, winnowing, grinding into cocoa nibs
Thursday June 12
9:00 am-12:00 pm
Rustic Stone Ground chocolate and creating fabulous chocolate bars
making cocoa liquor
making batches of rustic chocolate
making cocoa powder and cocoa butter
tempering
molding bars
Friday June 13
1:00 pm-4:00 pm
Finishing bars and chocolates, the business of chocolate
making truffles from artisan chocolate, packaging
Discussions:
Starting your own chocolate making business
fair trade, organic, shade grown, heirloom beans
Selecting excellent cocoa beans
Direct trade with farmers
Open Q&A
**Tastings:
Each day, we will taste and and discuss the flavor and other characteristics of various brands and percentages of chocolate and comparison taste cocoa nibs
You will take home plenty of chocolate and other products that you make.
FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER CONTACT BARBARA WILSON AT BWILSON@MINDOCHOCOLATE.COM
