About the Bar: Waimānalo is a small town just 15 minutes from our Kailua based factory. The verdant Koʻolau mountain range towers over the largest beach on Oʻahu, making for an epic combination of mountain, jungle and ocean. This region is home to three cacao farms. We’ve collaborated with these farms for many years, treating the trees like our own, and helping to select genetics based on fine flavor. In 2021, as the farms reached maturity, we had enough cacao to make the first ever single origin Waimānalo bar.
Even with fantastic seasons, we barely cross the threshold to bring this bar into existence. Compared to other single origin bars, this is the smallest batch of chocolate we make all year. While the scarcity of this chocolate (and Hawaiian chocolate in general) is real, we are actively working on improving the scale of Hawaiʻi grown cacao.
