The East India Company Cappuccino Coffee Beans Enrobed in Chocolate

We’ve selected a Peaberry coffee bean for our White Chocolate Enrobed Capuccino Beans.

You may not know that a Peaberry is simply a natural mutation of the coffee bean inside its cherry – normally, coffee beans grow two beans to a fruit, flat against each other like two halves of a peanut. But a funny thing happens in about 10% of the world’s coffee, and a bean is born an only child.

They tend to be rounder, smaller and more dense (known sympathetically in Spanish as ‘caracol’ or snail). They are produced naturally in every harvest in every country.

Peaberries are sieved or hand selection to separate them – they roast differently to normal beans due to their size and shape. Indeed roasting has to be done with particular care, with a small test batch commonly roasted first.

The extra effort is worth it through – they are considered by connoisseurs, including our own expert coffee tasters, to be sweeter and more complex than other coffees.

Costa Rica is one of the premier coffee producing countries of the world and is the source of our Peaberry beans.

Of course, choosing the bean is not where it stops here – the beans are lovingly smothered by artisan chocolatiers with our finest Belgian White Chocolate, which softens the peaberry coffee punch and adds an extra layer of creamy sweetness, literally. To share, or not to share, that is the question…