the Next Batch | bean to bar chocolate school

made to be enjoyed, not endured

isn't just a brilliant marketing campaign, it's 89.9% why we reach for chocolate in the first place

Sep 3

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August 2025

The arrival of Knoops in the U.S.

and why this may be the best thing to happen to craft chocolate, ever, at a time when it can use all the help it can get

Aug 20

15

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a micro bakery controversy lesson, and the fall livestreams are here

the sweetness of a craft doughnut micro bakery doing it right

Aug 5

10

4

June 2025

last words

but not all from me: insights from "the best chocolate maker in the world," Mikkel Friis-Holm; a few words about that "make your own couverture to save…

Jun 2

11

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May 2025

building the chocolate business of your dreams

begins by reclaiming the one you've already started, or clarifying the one you want to start.

May 19

22

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crafting outside the chocolate bar box

ideas to help stretch chocolate

May 14

10

2

the how-to's of cupping cacao

an easy and useful way to evaluate our roast results on the spot, and gain insight into origin flavor

May 6

8

6

absence makes the chocolate heart grow fonder

plus, Substack writers who chocolate, a current list of some amazing reads

May 2

9

4

April 2025

how to run a chocolate business

it's all about vision vision vision

Apr 22

19

6

the t-word, the pain au chocolate manifesto, bean blending, and bean record-keeping

a few things worth thinking about

Apr 10

7

March 2025

blood, bones, cocoa butter

two books for chocolate makers that aren't about chocolate, and two articles that are

Mar 24

8

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craft chocolate, ticking the right boxes

plus, the obsession files and the bar that got my attention yesterday

Mar 10

8

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