Bean to bar chocolate makers
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10/08/09 08:34:46AM
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@chocofiles
12/14/10 09:17:50AM
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Is Alter Eco a bean to bar company?
I'm currently reviewing several of their bars. The beans are grown by the El Ceibo Cooperative in Bolivia and the chocolate is made " in the pure Swiss tradition " by someone in Switzerland.
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12/14/10 01:26:08PM
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Lowe ... Alter Eco is a US-based product sourcing and marketing company. If the bars are made in Switzerland, then how can Alter Eco be bean to bar?
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@chocofiles
12/14/10 07:12:06PM
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I guess I should have done more research on the internet first. I was only looking at the package which says in large bold letters on the front "El Ceibo Cooperative" then on the back "Made in Switzerland" and distributed by "Alter Eco Americas". Going by this information alone I thought it would be possible for the company to be bean to bar, made in Switzerland but distributed in the U.S. Now I wonder-- who actually makes the Bolivian beans into chocolate?
It turns out that Alter Eco is a French company started in 1999.
Clay, thanks clarifying this.
@bong-willy
12/15/10 08:48:34AM
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I've updated the database with Rogue Chocolatier, from Minneapolis, MN. The founder, is the youngest chocolate maker that I know, and if I'm not mistaken, Colin Gasko is also a TCL member too. Can't wait their chocolates, that I've ordered, arrive in my home in January :-p
@duffy-sheardown
12/16/10 04:40:37PM
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I make chocolate from bean to bar in the UK - Red Star Chocolate. Clay has even tasted some of it...
@bong-willy
12/16/10 09:28:21PM
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Hi Duffy
Yes, and I've read about you at Seventypercent.com, wanna taste yours too, but I can't order them from my country *sigh*
Someday when I can make it to Europe and UK, I will definitely go to your workshop to learn and taste some sample, if you don't mind
Willy
@clay
12/27/10 02:48:30PM
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Just for fun, here is the ICCO (International Cocoa Organization) of "Chocolate Manufacturers." In looking at it I see:
- None of the American craft chocolate makers on the list (e.g., Amano, Askinosie, Black Mountain, Cacao Atlanta, Escazu, Patric, Rogue, Theo ...).
- Some other amazing oversights - Pralus, Bernachon, Debelis, Ambrosia, Belcolade,
- Some companies that clearly don't belong on the list (Green and Black's - until recently, anyway, all G&B product was made by the Italian company ICAM; Astor, Asher's).
- Does Scharffen Berger count any more (as manufacturing is supposedly done by Hershey). Dagoba as well?
It's not clear what the criteria are for inclusion. One very new company, AMMA (Brazil) is on the list.
Thoughts?
:: Clay
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@ice-blocks
12/31/10 05:09:12PM
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Not sure whether these guys can be classified as bean to bar yet but they seem to be heading in that direction.
Farm by Nature
Phone: 392128188
Website: http://www.farmbynature.com.au/
When it comes to the Cocoa itself, Farm By Nature is on the road ( through their sister company Cocoa Australia)
to grow Australias first cocoa Plantation in Far North Queensland.
The first of these little Aussie beans should be available in 2010 and used to create a unique Australian Cocoa Farm Range.
@ice-blocks
01/04/11 01:29:55AM
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http://australianrawqacao.com/australian-raw-qacao-cacao-fruit-bean
This site purports to sell raw organic Australian beans already.
updated by @ice-blocks: 01/24/15 06:14:51PM
@clay
01/05/11 07:07:02PM
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@ice-blocks
01/05/11 09:09:07PM
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I've found and Australian Certified Organic farm listed as producing Cocao in Killaloe QLD but as yet had no reply from them.
@chocofiles
01/06/11 12:12:56PM
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RE: http://australianrawqacao.com/australian-raw-qacao-cacao-fruit-bean
Qacao sounds to me like a lot of Quackery mixed with spiritual mumbo jumbo.
updated by @chocofiles: 09/07/15 08:28:16PM
@chocofiles
01/06/11 12:19:19PM
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I wonder if we ought to add Mindo, Snake and Butterfly, Potomac, Salazon, all newer US makers claiming to be b2b, but I have not exactly called them up to quiz them... Isn't there someone on this list also who says they make b2b, Oakland Chocolate Company?
This list is going to be getting so long as small b2b increase exponentially over the next years, so can I just add my grandma's home brew now? She sells to her Mahjong club.
@chocofiles
01/09/11 09:32:24AM
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@chocofiles
01/09/11 09:41:41AM
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I added those I mentioned in my reply just above to the master list, plus made made these and all the other newer additions hyperlinks. I have not added Salazon, as I'm slightly suspicious of this company.
For example, this from their FAQ
"Why dont you make milk chocolate?
At Salazon we see chocolate as an energy food not candy, so we simply stay away from offering sweeter, more candy-like milk chocolate. "
And what is their chosen default percentage for this "dark" chocolate? 54%!!
But that may be too bitter for many, so
"However, we do understand that some people may want a touch more sweetness so we created our Organic Dark Chocolate with Sea Salt and Organic Turbinado Sugar bar."
Also, there seems to be nothing on the website with any information on who these people are, not even their names, and no information about or photos of their chocolate making process. Except that they are the "Salazon Chocolate Co Team," which consists of "a group of us were on a backpacking trip to Utah."
Therefore, who knows who they are, or if they grasp "bean to bar" meaning.
btw, has anyone tried their chocolates? I see they are available at Whole Foods.
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