Guatemala, 70% Cacao, 55g Bar

Tasting notes:  This bar has delightfully bright fruit flavors of green banana and mango, with the sweet taste of dark maple syrup.  Think French toast!

To craft this World-Final-Winning bar we start with our directly sourced Asochivite cacao and add locally made maple sugar from Severance Maple in Northfield, MA.

Milt Severance harvests maple sap from trees on his property, as well as the surrounding area, and then granulates it in his own evaporator.  We tried many difference maple sugars before choosing Milt's, and its robust maple flavor is the perfect complement to the bright, fruity flavors for the Asochivite cacao.

We source the beans for this bar from the Q’eqchi Maya farmers of San Juan Chivite, Guatemala, who harvest the cacao fruit from wild trees surrounding their village.  They also ferment and dry their own beans at tow different facilities they built in their village, which allows them to carefully control the fermentation and drying process.