Melbourne Chocolate Scene
We have just spent a great weekend in Melbourne! We couldn’t wait any longer to get down and check out some of the bean-to-bar chocolate scene, and we thought you …
Time for Easter
Each year the shops fill with chocolate bunnies and eggs for Easter. While we are never one’s to turn down an opportunity to eat more chocolate, we’d like to take …
Recipe: Bean to Bar to Biscuit
If you’re like us, you always have chocolate around the house. But Sydney’s hottest summer may have had unfortunate effects on any chocolate you accidentally left in the sun. One …
Hawaiian chocolate tour
We’ve just come back from a week exploring the booming bean-to-bar chocolate scene in Hawaii. Hawaii is the only state in the USA which can grow cacao, and is a wonderfully …
Storing chocolate in hot weather
Sydney is sweltering through its hottest summer on record, and the rest of Australia is not far behind. While you may love the heat, your chocolate definitely doesn’t but hot …
Chocolates for Valentine’s Day
St Valentine was executed in 3rd century Rome for performing secret Christian weddings for soldiers. During his arrest, Valentine performed a miracle, and cured his jailer’s daughter of blindness. 200 …
Australian bean to bar chocolate producers
Last updated 25/03/2024 When we launched Australia’s first craft chocolate subscription box back in 2016 there were only 12 companies that made their own chocolate. Sometimes called “Bean To Bar” …
2016 International Chocolate Awards
It has been a big weekend in the chocolate world. Last week was Chocolate Week in London which culminated with The Chocolate Show, where the winners of the World Final …
Why is bean-to-bar-chocolate more expensive?
Our research suggests that, in Sydney at least, bean-to-bar chocolate retails at between $8 and $14. When you see a block of Dairy Milk chocolate in the supermarket on sale …
What is bean-to-bar chocolate?
Bean-to-bar chocolate is our passion here at Bean Bar You, but what does ‘bean-to-bar’ really mean? According to Wikipedia, “they process cocoa beans into a product in-house, rather than merely …