The inaugural Midwest Craft Chocolate Festival in Rushville, Indiana, will be a celebration of craft chocolate, cacao, and the farmers who grow and harvest it. In this preview, David Nilsen talks with organizer Barb Genuario and Leila Carvajal Erker of sponsor Cocoa Supply.

In this episode we talk with Leila Carvajal Erker about Cocoa Supply’s new cacao pulp products for brewers, as well as Sam Mosle, the head brewer at Wind River Brewing in Pinedale, Wyoming, who recently brewed a Blonde Ale with cacao pulp. We also discuss a similar beer brewed by Jon Naghski at Fifth Street Brewpub in Dayton, Ohio.

In this episode Leila Carvajal of Cocoa Supply tells us the story of her family’s company, a story that begins on a small cacao farm in Ecuador in the 1800s. She talks about their business and sourcing practices, the cacao farms they work with, and the products they offer for bean to bar chocolate makers and craft breweries.