(Interestingly, that means the scene has only really been around for a decade.) Solstice Chocolate As the first American company to win gold at the London Academy of Chocolate in 2009 for a Madagascar-source single origin bar - a year after winning bronze for the same bar - Amano made waves early on in the American chocolate scene. One major factor in chocolate’s growth here is that Utah is home to America’s most award-winning chocolate company, Amano Chocolate. That helps with sustainable growth in an industry.
Chocolate, to this point, isn’t exactly a high-profit industry at the craft scale, so it’s not going to attract many who are simply looking for a quick buck. There are a number of reasons that’s the case, but it’s a fairly cooperative maker community, and that sort of thing propels growth in smaller communities.
Utah: A hotbed of chocolateįirst, this might come as somewhat of a surprise, but Utah has one of the nation’s hottest chocolate scenes. Rather, I just wanted to talk about what craft chocolate is, and I wanted to talk about why the Royals taking in a chocolate factory is a meaningful thing here, of all places. Of course, I’m not here to sell you chocolate. Most bars in this style are made with two to four ingredients: Cacao beans and sugar are the two essentials, and you might also see added cocoa butter (which also enters into play naturally through cacao beans) and vanilla (though increasingly rarely when we’re talking about chocolate made in the Americas.) (I once tasted a bar that tasted like cucumber, and maybe that was a little strange.) Different origins of beans will offer different qualities of flavor, with flavor ranging from distinctly fruity to nutty, with loads of variation betwixt the two. The premise behind craft chocolate - and I’m certainly a believer - is that cacao, when treated well, has more to offer than just a “chocolatey” flavor, and that bitterness is a relic of improper treatment, not a quality of high-quality chocolate. That might be a single farm, plantation, or cooperative, but that’s generally how it’s cast. One thing you’ll hear repeatedly in chocolate is “single-origin,” which basically means that the cacao beans come from one specific place. I’m not talking about those $100-a-bar monstrosities - these tend to retail between $8 and $15, with some worthwhile examples on either side of that, too. It goes by many names, but it’s basically high-end chocolate. Today’s tour could not have been more fun! ⚽️+ Truly a fantastic group of women! Don’t miss their first home game April 14th! #utahrules #chocolatelovers #utahroyalsfanpageĪ post shared by Solstice Chocolate on at 9:15pm PDTĪt any rate, this all instilled in me a realization that we haven’t really talked about craft chocolate. Thank you Utah Royals FC for stopping by.
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