MIKE&BECKY & FRIENDS
We’ve partnered with passionate companies from Brussels to create this line of unique and flavor-packed chocolate bars. Each bar is an example of our shared passion for hand-crafted, small batch, artisan food and drink, and above all, for the common values of direct sourcing, transparency and fair pay for the best ingredients from producers throughout the world.
WIDE AWAKE
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Wide Awake has been fuelling independent cafés and coffee enthusiasts since 2019. Started by Rutger & Senina in rue de Flandre, they source a wide variety of the finest specialty coffee lots. Expertly roasted in Brussels and released on one of our Series. From Big & Bold to Wild & Funk. Each Series represents a specific taste profile and hosts different seasonal microlots throughout the year.
The coffee we use in the chocolate comes from Mustefa Abakeno in Jimma, Ethiopia. Mustefa is a smallholder with 18 hectares of land located at 2,040 height above mean sea level. He has a small disc pulper that he uses to wash-process half of his coffee; the other half is dried as a natural. Due to a lack of water in the area and limited space to ferment the coffee, Mustefa ferments the pulped coffee for a short period (8 hours) before he moves it to his drying beds (for 13-16 days), and the result is something like a light honey.
The result is a creamy & round coffee with notes of peach, lime & Assam tea that pairs perfectly with nutty and smooth character of the cacao from Sanko region in Ecuador.