American Chocolate Brands & Makers

Frequently asked about chocolate makers in the United States

• What is American chocolate known for?

  The craft bean-to-bar movement. The United States has one of the largest communities of small makers buying traceable cacao and pressing single-origin bars, working across a very wide range of origins and roast styles rather than one national house style.

• Is chocolate grown in the United States?

  Only in Hawaii, which has the tropical climate cacao needs and is the one part of the United States that grows it at any scale. A small number of American makers press tree-to-bar Hawaiian bars; most import fine cacao from Latin America, Africa and the Pacific.

• What are the best American chocolate brands?

  Chof lists 95 American chocolate makers and brands. Ranked by the best Chof Score among each maker's published bars, the top three in the United States are Chokaico for its Hacienda San Jose 70%, Goodnow Farms for its Esmeraldas Ecuador 70% and mānoa chocolate for its Honoli'i 70% Dark (4.8 out of 5 from 6 community ratings). 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 the United States are listed on Chof?

  Chof currently lists 95 chocolate makers based in the United States.

• Are there any bean-to-bar chocolate makers in the United States?

  Yes. 66 of the 95 makers listed in the United States on Chof work bean-to-bar. 1 of them is tree-to-bar, growing the cacao as well.

• What is the median Chof Score for American chocolate?

  Across the 633 scored American bars on Chof, the median Chof Score is 81 out of 100, and the most common maker type is bean-to-bar. Chof Score scores bars on fine-chocolate signals like ingredient purity and cacao traceability, not taste.

• Where can I find United States cacao on Chof?

  Bean origin (where the cacao is grown) and maker country (where the chocolate is made) are different things. To browse chocolate made with cacao from the United States, open the United States cacao origin page on Chof.