We traveled to Ghana, home of TCHO's co-founder Karl Bittong, to select just the right beans for “Chocolatey”. Out of the thousands of bean lots we were offered, we chose the most perfect, intensely chocolatey (yes, that's actually an industry flavor term), with distinct hints of brown fruit.

Since flavor drives the TCHO decision matrix, we devote extreme attention to carefully time-sourcing beans — much of the flavor is in the timing of the fruit's development. Focusing on the choicest point of the Ghanaian growing cycle, we picked the most flavorful stage to gather beans.