German Chocolate Brands & Makers
Of the 21 German chocolate brands and makers on Chof, the three whose top bar has the highest Chof Score are Rosa Canina, Georgia Ramon and Choklad Zimmer.
What is German chocolate making known for?
Germany has a large mainstream chocolate industry of industrial and private-label brands, and a smaller, growing group of craft bean-to-bar makers. Chof lists both. The bean-to-bar makers most often use cacao from the Dominican Republic, Panama and Ghana.
Germany eats a lot of chocolate and has a large mainstream industry, so the German makers on Chof include industrial and private-label brands as well as craft makers. France and Italy, by contrast, are almost all bean-to-bar.
The craft makers themselves lean toward Dominican, Panamanian and Ghanaian cacao, and the scene has grown steadily. As with several European countries, the maker type on each page is the quickest way to tell a bean-to-bar producer from a melter or private-label brand.
German chocolate on Chof
What the catalogue shows for makers based in Germany.
Where German makers source cacao
Median across the 91 scored bars from makers based in Germany. Chof Score scores bars on fine-chocolate signals like ingredient purity and cacao traceability, not taste. How Chof Score works.
German chocolate bars
The highest Chof Scores among bars with a photo from makers based in Germany. Open a bar for its score breakdown.
Tanzania 90%
Nicaragua 80%
Panama 72%
Nigeria 80%
Kambodscha 80%
Uganda 80%
Vietnam 75%
Edel Bitter Superior Dark
Bars with awards
7 bars from makers based in Germany have award results on Chof, newest first. How Chof lists awards
Chocolate makers by city in Germany
City pages, for cities where Chof has confirmed the locations of enough makers.
Chocolate festivals in Germany
Where to taste bars and meet makers in person.
Based in Germany
Vivani
Rosa Canina
GEPA
Fin Carré
Ritter Sport
Georgia Ramon
fairafric
Milka
J.D. Gross
Meybona
Choklad Zimmer
Choceur
Schogetten
Alnatura
Alpia
Edeka
Fairglobe
iChoc
Kumpel
Moser Roth
Niederegger
Frequently asked about chocolate makers in Germany
What is German chocolate known for?
A large mainstream chocolate industry alongside a growing craft bean-to-bar scene. On Chof, German makers include industrial and private-label brands as well as single-origin makers working with cacao from the Dominican Republic, Panama and Ghana.
Is German chocolate industrial or craft?
Both. Germany has a large mainstream industry of industrial and private-label brands, and a steadily growing group of craft bean-to-bar makers alongside it. Each maker page on Chof lists the maker type, so you can tell the two apart.
What are the best German chocolate brands?
Chof lists 21 German chocolate makers and brands. Ranked by the best Chof Score among each maker's published bars, the top three in Germany are Rosa Canina for its Tanzania 90%, Georgia Ramon for its Panama 72% and Choklad Zimmer for its Kambodscha 80%. Chof Score rates what a maker discloses about a bar: how precisely the origin is named, how clean the ingredient list is, and how much of the fermenting, drying and roasting is documented.
How many chocolate makers in Germany are listed on Chof?
Chof currently lists 21 chocolate makers based in Germany.
Are there any bean-to-bar chocolate makers in Germany?
Yes. 5 of the 21 makers listed in Germany on Chof work bean-to-bar.
What is the median Chof Score for German chocolate?
Across the 91 scored German bars on Chof, the median Chof Score is 76 out of 100, and the most common maker type is industrial. Chof Score scores bars on fine-chocolate signals like ingredient purity and cacao traceability, not taste.
Where can I find Germany cacao on Chof?
Bean origin (where the cacao is grown) and maker country (where the chocolate is made) are different things. Germany is a chocolate-making country rather than a cacao-growing origin, so Chof has no Germany cacao origin page. To browse chocolate by cacao origin, open the cacao origins index on Chof.
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Scan a Germany bar and track what you taste
Open Chof while a Germany bar is in your hand to log your tasting, save the maker, and compare it with related bars.
