Limited Edition Kad Kokoa x Left Hand Coffee Roasters - Cascara Chocolate Bar

We've been cooking up a new collab product for quite a while now, and it's finally
here ! We're taking Left Hand Roasters beloved byproduct, cascara, and turning it into something sweet.

What's Cascara ?

When talking about coffee beans, people often forget that its' original form is actually a fruit. Small red cherries that grow in bundles on coffee trees.

When harvesting coffee, the fruit is typically stripped off to access the beans, discarded, and forgotten after the coffee production process. "Cascara" is the husk of the coffee cherry. Many types of coffee processing methods hinge on the sugars of cascara to help ferment, and develop the flavor of the bean. Here, it is collected and sun dried to preserve the natural flavors of fruit and terroir and turned into a completely different and unique product.

We've always been fascinated in the subtle acidity and jammy sweetness from Khun Lao's cascara (Khun Lao is a coffee grower in Chiang Mai). We were looking for a way to build and extract the cascara's flavorings and incorporate with something local and complementary to transform it into an entirely new product: Chumphon  Single Origin Cacao, with its berry-like characteristics, immediately came to mind which birthed this epic collaboration. We aimed for fruity, well-balanced and smooth with a lasting sweet aftertaste.

We're proud to bring you this delightfully sustainable bar born out of social impact values. Enjoy tasting it as much as we enjoyed making it !