Pump Street Drinking Chocolate

Ingredients: Natural cocoa powder, cane sugar, cocoa beans and organic cocoa butter. Choose - Minimum 61 % or 85% cocoa solids. Processed in an environment containing nuts and dairy products. 250g Tin.

Pump Street is a small family-run bakery on Suffolk's heritage coast making small-batch, handmade artisan chocolate from single-origin beans imported directly to them from family farms and cooperatives around the world.

Instructions for preparation are given on the tin, can be made with cows or plant-based milk. Suitable for vegans when prepared with a vegan milk alternative.

Farm - Hacienda Limon,
 Los Rios Province, Ecuador. Farmer - Samuel von Rutte. Bean type - Arriba Nacional. Accreditation - Heirloom Cacao Preservation.

Terroir. The Guayas Basin, where the Hacienda Limon farm is located, is one of the most fertile areas along the Pacific coast. The abundant water resources and volcanic soils, rich in minerals and organic matter, make for perfect cocoa-growing conditions.

Bean Character. The trees at Hacienda Limon are unique in that Samuel von Rutte sources eh genetic stock from the Rockefeller Foundation’s Genback dating back to the 1950s.

Upon harvest, the beans are pre-dried before fermentation which significantly affects the process and reduces both the acidity and the bitterness. The resulting beans are rich in caramel and nutty flavour.