Description
To craft this World-Final-Winning bar, Goodnow Farms starts with their 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. Goodnow 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.
Goodnow sources 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.
This bar is crafted with freshly pressed Asochivite cocoa butter for intense single origin flavor and exceptional smoothness. Goodnow is one of the only chocolate makers in the country to press their own cocoa butter, and it makes a world of difference in flavor.
