This place is INCREDIBLE!
I have many glorious things to praise and praise and praise K'ul about!
I know we're all chocolate "experts" in the U.S., but really, this has to be the best and as "local" as chocolate can get in Minnesota. There are 4 bean-to-bar chocolate companies in MN, but of the 4, K'ul seems to be the only one that is farm-to-bean-to-bar. They're creating relationships with directly with the cacao farmers all across the equator and also found out that they're paying ABOVE the fair trade wages.
That's admirable.
I first discovered K'ul last April (2016) at a women's networking meeting. We were taking a tour of the entire business and was so impressed and invigorated to learn and understand more about what goes into chocolate (because let's face it, we're all blindly eating food w/o out truly know where it comes from, the soil it was grown in, the family of cacao beans that are represented, how much cocoa butter can vary in chocolate from company to company, etc.
Being able to see all of their beautiful machinery (winnower, roaster, assembling, etc. etc. etc), really opened my eyes and made me a huge believer in their product.
Obviously I've been talking about everything but the flavor...
Please please PLEASE go out and buy every kind and see for yourself! It's worth it and so satisfying.
The blend bars are cleverly crafted for different needs (electrolytes, protein, oxidative stress, etc) & palates.
Then there are the single origin bars...so true & pure. I love savoring a square that represents a place in this world by people who are fully invested into growing cacao.
There's also vanilla, saltsation (which uses cyprus sea salt!), & probably some others I'm missing, but ohhhhhh, so good. I just heard that they came out with an 85% dark (all of the other bars are 70%)...which I'm on the prowl for!
Their storefront actually has a bar...where you can have your chocolate bars custom made! Eeee! And chocolate dipped dried fruits (my favorite is the ginger)
Besides their storefront, their bars are in a number of stores (lots of the co-ops (maybe all?), Whole Foods, & I'm hoping a zillion other places so I can have convenient access for all of my future chocolate fixes).
I'm devoted to K'ul and will be back over and over and over!!! read more