Discover the craft behind real chocolate in this immersive Bean to Bar – Taster workshop. Perfect for beginners, food enthusiasts, and aspiring chocolatiers, this hands‑on experience introduces you to the complete journey of chocolate — from cocoa bean to finished bar.
Explore the global Bean to Bar movement and learn what makes ethically produced, sustainable chocolate so unique. Through demonstrations and guided participation, you’ll gain practical insight into professional chocolate‑making techniques before moulding, packaging, and tasting your own chocolate creation.
What You’ll Learn
- The meaning and importance of the Bean to Bar movement, including ethics and sustainability.
- Key production stages: roasting, winnowing, grinding, refining, and conching.
- Tempering techniques, moulding methods, and guided chocolate tasting.
Workshop Highlights
- Introduction to cocoa farming processes: growing, fermenting, and drying.
- Understanding two‑ and three‑ingredient chocolate, including 70% benchmarks.
- Hands-on moulding, packaging, and tasting session.
For more information, contact: shortcourses@angliss.edu.au
Details
You will learn
- Understand the Bean to Bar movement and ethical sourcing
- Learn essential chocolate production stages
- Master tempering, moulding and tasting techniques
You will get
- Hands-on chocolate making experience
- Guided tasting session
- Digital certificate of attendance
Appropriate for
Beginners, food enthusiasts, and aspiring chocolatiers
Preparation
What to bring
- Notepad and pen
What to wear
Flat, enclosed rubber-soled shoes required; tie back long hair and remove loose jewellery.
Your Teacher
William Angliss Institute
1 reviewsWilliam Angliss Institute is Australia's largest specialist centre for foods, tourism, hospitality and events education and training. From careers in restaurants to leading some of the world's biggest travel brands, you'll find our graduates all over the world.
We pride ourselves on our people who are passionate and dedicated. With long-standing industry ties, they contribute their knowledge and experience in delivering training of the very highest standard.
Highlighting our deep industry connections, 86.3% of employers stated that they would recommend William Angliss Institute (William Angliss Institute of TAFE (3045) 2020 RTO Performance Summary Report, Department of Education and Training, Victoria 2020).
Named Large Training Provider of the Year at the 2021 Australian Training Awards our position as a leader in education has been long standing, building on over 85 years of experience.
We provide training for local and international students based on campus or participating in workplace training. With around 23,000 students enrolling each year, we offer programs including short courses, VET in Schools, accredited traineeships and apprenticeships, certificates, diplomas and advanced diplomas, short courses, graduate certificates, bachelor and master degrees. If you're looking to start your career or advance your position, we have training to suit your needs.
Our main campus in the heart of Melbourne is complemented by a campus in Sydney and offices in Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, servicing both metropolitan and regional areas across the country and in every state and territory in Australia.
Internationally we continue to develop program offerings with four joint-venture campuses in China, a Tourism Continuing Education & Training (CET) Centre in Singapore, a partnership in Sri Lanka and two partnerships and a representative office in Vietnam.
We have also earned a strong global reputation through the delivery of innovative training solutions and consultancy services to clients across Australia and abroad, including off-shore project development work with industry, governments and development-aid agencies.
The National Centre for Vocational Education and Training (VET student outcomes 2023, National Centre for Vocational Education Research, 2023) reported:
- 84.6% of students who completed a course at William Angliss Institute stated that they would recommend us
- 92.4% of our graduates were satisfied with their training overall (higher than the average for TAFE Institutes in Victoria and TAFE Institutes Australia)
- 81.5% of course completers received at least one job-related benefit
- 92.1% of our graduates achieved their main reason for undertaking the training
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