Is it too early to be thinking about the weekend? Have you tried our summer cocktails? Pictured: High Fashion- St. George Gin + Bitter Elderflower Liqueur + Hibiscus + Grapefruit Bitters

Who has the mid week blues? We think a delicious treat can fix that!!! Are you drooling yet? 😋

Who needs a cold, refreshing lemonade today? We have 4 delicious hand crafted lemonades 🍋 to choose from! Hibiscus 🌺 Strawberry 🍓 Raspberry (where's the raspberry emoji 🙁) Classic lemon 🍋 Pictured: delicious hibiscus in the tall glass Homemade syrups : strawberry, raspberry, hibiscus, and classic lemon.

We are extremely excited and honored to receive these awards for our chocolates. Who has tried these? Are these your favorites too? Which one gets your seal of approval? Let us know!

Have you tried our new Oat milk?!? It's made from real oats grown tall and strong in the soil of the earth, naturally containing fibers called betaglucans that are good for your heart! For those of you looking for alternative dairy for your lattes and aren't too fond of coconut milk you HAVE to try this. It's thicker, therefore giving the lattes the same thick consistency as a regular milk latte. Plus it tastes delicious and is good for you. Can't go wrong with that.

Good Morning! Happy Sunday. More on Haiti! After the long, and sometimes dangerous, job of visiting farmers and acquiring truck loads of raw beans & pulp (thanks to Uncommon Cacao for the cool animation from another source we work with, Guatemala!), the mass is brought back to a central facility that ferments raw beans. The standard way to ferment it via a 3 box method in the open air. Raw beans and pulp and loaded a top box where bacteria and yeast from the air get into the sugary pulp that surrounds the beans. The beans heat as the digestion process starts and yeast create ethanol (!) which is then oxidized by bacteria into acetic acid (also known as vinegar). As this process continues, a combination of aerobic and anaerobic fermentation continues. The beans are covered in the box and then every day or two (depending on the method of the facility), the beans are uncovered and moved into a lower box by shovels, thus ensuring 'proper' fermentation by the time the mass gets to the bottom by introducing air at critical times and assure the mass is not too hot or cold. The non-bean pulp ferments and then drains away. The beans darken as they continue in fermentation and a real chocolate flavor, not present in unfermented beans, is developed during this process. Central fermentation helps farmers to ensure a consistent price, quality of fermentation and quality of drying (next post). Prior to centralized fermentation by PISA in Haiti, farmers were generally washing their beans for commodity purchasing which resulted in a MUCH lower price (only 25% of what PISA pays) and therefore had little incentive to produce more cacao.

Happy Saturday. Who's going to the Woodstock Farmers Market today? Make sure you stop by and get your coffees,lattes, and teas!

It's finally Friday! NEW IN THE CAFE: Chocolate and Beer pairings!!! You can now try all 3 of our local beers we have on tap and pair them with our chocolate. Does it get any better than this? We don't think so. Local Chocolate. Local Beer. 🍫🍺 Left to right: Crystal Lake Brewing Spring Fever (raspberry hibiscus ale) & Matcha Berry Truffle (Matcha, blueberry Burnt City Brewing Balloon Boy Wheat & Juliette Truffle (honey & lavender) Penrose Brewing IPA & Ginger, Orange Peel & Coriander Bar

New beer on tap!!! Burnt City Brewing : Balloon Boy Easy to drink, but hard to pin down, Balloon Boy is a refreshing Belgian-style wheat that is fun for the whole family. Subtle tart citrus up front gives way to a beautifully complex fruitiness. A wheat ale that sits well with every kind of beer drinker. YUM!

We can't wait for this event next week. Who bought their tickets to this already? Can't wait to see you there.

Experimenting with something new here this week... Trying to make some mocha butter with our chocolate and Conscious Cup Coffee Roasters coffee!!! Fingers crossed it turns out.