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Cacao Journal

Bean-to-Bar Craft Notes

A craft journal for bean-to-bar makers. Record your process, your flavors, and share what you made.

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Flavor Wheel

Every batch mapped to fruity, roasted, floral, and earthy notes. Build a vocabulary for what your beans are doing.

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Fermentation days, roast curves, conching time. The details that separate a good batch from a great one.

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Track your beans back to their source. Madagascar, Ecuador, Peru — origin shapes everything.

Guittard 72% Almond Butter Cups

Guittard

"Taste leaves some to be desired. Almond butter doesn't pop out. Chocolate snaps hard but maybe should be softer for an almond butter cup."

Apr 12, 2026

@carmencincotti

Ghana 72%, First Good Temper

Ghana Kome Three Mountains Women's Coop - Chocolate Alchemy 2025

"Definitely a bit fruity and earthy. "

Mar 22, 2026

@carmencincotti