Episodes 

In today's season 5 finale we take a deep dive into what cacao nibs are and how we make them at Manoa Chocolate.

In today's episode we clarify confusing chocolate terms. Dylan discusses three different categories of words that essentially mean the same thing; 1) Cacao & cocoa 2) Cocoa mass, cocoa liquor, coco...

In today’s episode we’re at Kamananui Estate, our new cacao farm on the North Shore of O’ahu. Dylan walks us through the layout of the farm as we are just beginning to plant trees in the ground

In this episode we discuss an issue the craft chocolate industry faces (cacao farmers in particular). Over the last decade cacao farms have been improving quality from commodity grade to that of cr...

Today we do an overview of blending. Dylan discusses blending as a common practice in industrial chocolate as well as making reference to blending in wine. This episode was inspired by a unique and...

Dylan explains why he started making #BeantoBar chocolate, why we created Craft Chocolate TV, and what keeps him excited about the industry moving forward.

In this episode we look at the 7 #cacao origins that we currently source from. We analyze their flavor and discuss the reasons we chose to source them. At the end Dylan takes us into the past with ...

Today we cover how we make inclusion chocolate bars at Manoa Chocolate. We learn about the different types of inclusions and our approach to incorporating unique and delicious flavors into chocolat...

10 years and 4 factory expansions later, Dylan covers the ins and outs of what it took to scale Manoa Chocolate. Scaling a business comes in many forms. Some of the most significant that we cover i...

In this episode we learn how to make a chocolate recipe. In particular we cover a 1 kilo 70% dark chocolate test-batch, but this method can be applied to a recipe of any quantity with any ingredien...

In this season 4 finale we dive deep into what it has taken to build the Manoa Chocolate brand. Dylan discusses the mistakes and the successes that the brand has made as it continues to progress fo...

In this episode we learn how to clean a chocolate stone grinder (aka melangeur).