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A Visit to Areté Chocolate

A Visit to Areté Chocolate

Chocolate maker Ryan visits bean-to-bar chocolate maker Areté Chocolate just before they moved from Milpitas, California to Spencer, Tennessee.

What’s a Grindometer?

What’s a Grindometer?

Along the south wall of our factory on Valencia Street, there are six, spinning steel melangers.  This is where the cocoa nibs turn into cocoa liquor, and where the liquor and sugar are refined and conched until they have reached the perfect consistency and...