{"id":26520,"date":"2023-03-24T21:52:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T04:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/?p=26520"},"modified":"2023-04-23T22:30:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T05:30:34","slug":"bean-to-bar-chocolate-honeymoon-cameron-loyet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/2023\/03\/24\/bean-to-bar-chocolate-honeymoon-cameron-loyet\/","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate fans, Do You Understand \u2018Bean to Bar\u2019 ? Honeymoon Chocolates Cam Loyet explains it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chocolate fans, Do You Understand \u2018Bean to Bar\u2019 ? Honeymoon Chocolates Cam Loyet explains it<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Honeymoon Chocolates was founded in a dorm room back in 2016 making bean-to-bar craft chocolate sweetened solely with raw honey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Years later, bean to bar is only getting more popular.\u00a0 But what does it actually mean? Do you know where to go?\u00a0 What to look for or ask for?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So we asked Cam Loyet from Honeymoon Chocolates<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"A-TyzJwEHew\"><iframe title=\"Love Chocolate?  Quality food shouldn&#039;t be Expensive.  Cam from Honeymoon Chocolates Full Episode\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A-TyzJwEHew?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><b>What does \u201cBean to Bar\u201d Craft chocolate mean?\u00a0 Is it as simple as a one sentence answer?\u00a0 Or Is it more complicated?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s far more complicated.\u00a0 In itself, it\u2019s a little bit selfish in my opinion.\u00a0 There\u2019s a lot of benefit employing those who work in origin to also manufacture the chocolate. That&#8217;s something that we&#8217;d be interested in down the road. We just can&#8217;t afford it so right now we take all the effort, all the energy and time to do it here in St. Louis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s a really fun process. But you do end up taking a lot of the credit where the credit isn&#8217;t necessarily due. A lot of the credits due for the fine cocoa farmers at origin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Can you walk me through the basic concept?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So in our industry it&#8217;s wherever you receive the dry, unfermented cocoa beans. and you roast them.\u00a0 What you&#8217;re doing is crafting this flavor and you&#8217;re manufacturing a product that otherwise wouldn&#8217;t wouldn&#8217;t necessarily exist.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you have the ability to roast [in-house] and you start [you\u2019re own manufacturing process] ]there, you\u2019re \u2018bean to bar\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It just gives a little bit more local sense to chocolate. Whenever you open up a bar, and you don&#8217;t know where it&#8217;s manufactured and how it&#8217;s manufactured, you lose a bit of that local sense. It becomes more of a global or nationwide feel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>l got it.\u00a0 So the beans come from somewhere else, they arrive under your roof and the manufacturing process happens under your roof. So beans come in and a bar comes out, but it all happens under the same roof.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes.\u00a0 And it\u2019s traceable.\u00a0 That\u2019s also very important.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>So when I&#8217;m at a Whole Foods, or any high-end retail groceries, there are many craft chocolate bars.\u00a0 What am I looking for to know the difference?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I love the idea of when a consumer looks at a list of 9 bars, they instantly go \u2018is it a dark, milk or or white.\u00a0 If it\u2019s dark, what percentage do I like?\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It starts with, what percentage do they like? And then from there you go into this dialogue with the consumer when they try your product.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But it really does start with what the consumer likes. You can&#8217;t necessarily force an 85% bar onto a consumer that enjoys white chocolate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But you look at the ingredients on them. There are some good makers that use <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lecithin<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> just because it makes the product easier to work with, but it does make it less of a clean label product. So you look at the clean label from nutrition.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You are gonna look and see if it&#8217;s single origin to check to see where the cocoa comes from. Just because it does highlight the farmers&#8217; work a little bit more. There&#8217;s some big makers that combine origins because they have more of a fruity flavor versus a more chocolate-forward cocoa bean. So then they combine them. But I do find that it kind of does take away from the efforts that do happen earlier on in the supply chain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thank you, Cam.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Visits Honeymoon Chocolates at: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/hmchocolates.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/hmchocolates.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Instagram, at: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/honeymoonchocolates\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">www.instagram.com\/honeymoonchocolates<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Facebook, at: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/honeymoonchocolates\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/honeymoonchocolates<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"A-TyzJwEHew\"><iframe title=\"Love Chocolate?  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