Midwest Craft Chocolate Festival

About the Event

Join us for fine chocolate at the Midwest Craft Chocolate Festival!

Taste, learn, have fun!

​Discover the perfect gift for everyone on your list at this ​inaugural international chocolate celebration!

​​-Sample different milk chocolate, white chocolate & dark chocolate

-Learn about your favorite fermented food (yes, chocolate!) Meet a cacao farmer, chocolate makers, and chocolatiers

-Find out how craft chocolate is made, from seed to finished bar

-Touch a cacao pod fresh off the tree

Fine chocolate samples from regional and international chocolate makers Plus bonbons & truffles you won't want to miss

Schedule of Events

8:30am: Opening Ceremony

9am - 5pm: Vendors

9:30am - 4:30pm: Speakers & Tastings

1. David Nilsen, Bean-to-Barstool, "From Bean to Barstool and Back: Collaboration and Commonality Between Chocolate, Beer, and Spirits"

2. London Coe, Peace on Fifth, "Why You Should Fall in Love with Chocolate"

3. Gerry Dean, Chocs 'N Boxes

4. Micheal King, Encore Coffee & Chocolate

5.César Aguilar, Cacaitos

6. Bassman Paulus, Fusion Epicure

7. Denise Steele, Lohcally Chocolates

8. Anne Zaczek, Heirloom Cacao Preservation

9. Susan Brown, Mademoiselle Miel

10. Elmer Pineada, Yojoya Chocolates

11. Leila Carvajal, CocoaSupply

12. Connor Tierney, Chocolate Thunder

13. Nettie Attkison, Small Batch Education: "A Brief and Edible History of Chocolate"

14 Tandy Peterson, Embers Chocolate

15. Clay Gordon, The Chocolate Life

Workshops
Morning: 9:00 - 12:30 (tasting & sampling, classes & workshops)
Afternoon: 1:30 - 5:00 (tasting & sampling, classes & workshops)

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