Ten years ago my wife and I started a coffee shop in Puerto Viejo de We had been working as volunteers for about two years, had a baby boy and sort of became beach bums for a year . We needed to do something, or we would be both broke and crazy from boredom.
We noticed there was no coffee shop in Puerto Viejo except ones that also served breakfast, lunch and dinner. As coffee snobs were suffering with the low quality coffee in the grocery store. So we decided to open our own coffee shop. After reading “The Complete Idiots Guide to Coffee Shops”, we decided to source our coffee green (unfrosted) directly from farmers and invested in a small scale coffee roaster.
Not long after that we were trying to make coffee/chocolate drinks without using industrial or cheap chocolate syrups or powders. We searched the internet and found the process for making chocolate starts with roasting the beans.
We purchased beans from local indigenous farmers and began testing the coffee roaster to roast cacao beans. Ever since we discovered the coffee roaster works great to cacao beans, we have been deepening out knowledge of chocolate making.
I intend to use this blog to tell our story, but also to discuss chocolate growing. To be continued….
