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Experience the process from Bean to Bar.

This certificate course will teach the principles of becoming a professional chocolatier and crafting your own high-quality tablets.

Explore the intricacies of crafting chocolate from the ground up, gaining the expertise to create chocolate from the comfort of your home.


24th January, 2025
at Choco-Story Museum, Brussels.

9 spots available for 24th January 2025
To ensure a personalized and interactive learning experience, enrolment is limited to 9 students.


 

Content

Experience the entire chocolate-making and manufacturing process from sourcing beans, cleaning, winnowing, roasting, refining, conching and tempering to produce bulk chocolate from which you will create your final chocolate tablet. 

 

Theory

  • Learn about farming, fermentation & drying, bean processing

  • Create high-quality cocoa mass.

  • Precisely pour the chocolate mass into molds to create high-quality tablets.


Hands-on training in the pilot plant

  • Bean quality parameters

  • Bean sourcing and processing: roasting, breaking and winnowing

  • Chocolate manufacturing process including the preparation of cocoa mass

  • Chocolate making: mixing, refining, conching, tempering, cooling

  • Making tablets


 

Exclusive Combo Price: €720 (excl.VAT)

Get €50 discount and a free chocolate museum visit when booking both “Art of Bean to Bar” and “Art of Making”. The discount is automatically added and visible on the check-out page.

 

9 spots available for 24th of January

To ensure a personalized and interactive learning experience, enrolment is limited to 9 students.

 
The Art of Bean to Bar
€380.00
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The Art of Making & Tasting
€390.00
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How to book?

  1. Add the preferred courses to the cart and proceeded to the checkout page.

  2. Check the total of your order, including VAT and discounts.

  3. Choose the preferred payment method and confirm your payment.

  4. Receive an email with the confirmation.

  5. See you in Brussels!

    Furthermore, we can help you plan your trip and find the best vacancies for your budget.

 


This practical workshop was really valuable for two main reasons: the advice given by professionals from the industry and the complete discovery of another production process
— Maria M. - Pastry Chef in a Belgian Starred restaurant
The instructors were incredibly knowledgeable and passionate, making the learning experience both engaging and fun. We walked away with a wealth of information that we are excited to apply in our own chocolate creations.
— Hadeel Nazer - Chocolate Business Owner

 

Our experts

LAURENCE KOUTNY

  • 17 years of experience in the chocolate industry.

  • She led marketing and merchandising for Godiva Europe as well as their international innovations team.

  • She is a consultant in chocolate businesses in Iceland and Egypt and for many chocolatiers in Belgium.


VIRGINIE DETOURNAY

  • Bio-engineer (ULB) with a speciality in chemical and bio-industries.

  • R&D manager at Puratos.

  • Development of customized recipes in line with specific request and market needs.

 

Let’s meet in a unique location: Choco-Story, Brussels!