Category: Craft Culture
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How Lumen Is Using Regenerative Hemp Farming
Cannabis has plenty of nutrients, something that we are discovering more about as it becomes more legally available around the world. Hemp, a cannabis variety lower in THC, is similarly high in beneficial compounds. Like food, however, the nutritional quality of the hemp depends on the quality of the soil. As with food, soil conservation…
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How Kokoa Kamili Put Tanzania On The Chocolate Map
While African coffees are prominent in the specialty market, high-quality cacao from the continent has lagged. For the most part, it’s a problem of reputation. Environmental and labor abuses in West African countries like Ivory Coast and Ghana often make headlines. Low-quality yields in East and Central Africa meant bean-to-bar producers have largely avoided using…
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What’s the Deal With Cannabinoids?
If you have even a passing familiarity with pot, you know what THC is. It’s the chemical that gets you high, right? Not exactly. While THC does give cannabis most of its psychotropic effects, there is a whole lot more going on in cannabis than just THC. THC is just one of many active cannabinoids…
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Malt Matters: Beer’s Real Main Ingredient
Thanks to the IPA-driven American craft beer revolution, hops tend to get all the attention. However, there’s a lot more to beer. Beer is, at its most basic, just fermented water and cereal grain. The most common grain in beer is malt, and yet it is also the most often overlooked ingredient. Water matters, of…
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The Coffee Chocolate Bar is Now a Thing & It’s Delicious
In craft chocolate circles, there is an ongoing debate over whether “two-ingredient” or “three-ingredient” bars are better. Two ingredient bars contain only sugar and cacao. Three ingredient bars add cocoa butter as the third ingredient. We find both types to be delicious, but what happens when you take a three-ingredient bar, trade the cacao for…