Beskid Chocolate is the chocolate manufactory situated in the picturesque village of Węgierska Górka in the mountain range of Beskid Żywiecki in the South of Poland. Our name originates from the name of the mountain range surrounding our location – Beskid Mountains – to emphasize the origin of our bars of chocolate.
Beskid Chocolate are craft bean-to-bar chocolates that we manufacture from high quality cocoa beans from all over the world. They are refined and conched for at least 48 hours. We manufacture our chocolate from high quality, aromatic cocoa bean varieties. A part of beans used for manufacture of our bars originates from farms holding ecological certificates.
YEAR 2020
2020 December
In December the results of another competition were published, in which our bars were awarded with 3 medals.
Venezuela Chuao 90% – silver
Peru Satipo 100% – bronze
Venezuela Caicara del Orinoco 50% – bronze
2020 October
Natural Food Fair NATURA FOOD in Łódź and our premieres: a line of hot chocolates to drink and Arriba Coffee – the combination of cocoa beans and coffee in brewing version.
However, the most important news is that our milk chocolate Caicara del Orinoco 50 % was awarded with a bronze medal in the international competition – International Chocolate Awards.
2020 September
We forget about COVID for a while and take part in the Bitter-Sweet Festival in Wrocław and in the Chocolate Festival in Sandomierz.
2020 July
We work on a chocolate with a local smoked cheese – “oscypek”
2020 May
In May we finalise purchase of our new head office. This is the building to where we plan to move our production.
2020 April
Our packaging for chocolate of single origin series. These are packaging prototypes in that we send chocolates to the craft chocolate competition – the Academy of Chocolate.
2020 March
Chocolate Festival in Łodź
Chocolate Festival in Katowice, Wilson Shaft Gallery
2020 February
Chocolate Festival in Lublin
YEAR 2019
2019 December
We take part in the Christmas market by the wooden historical church in Cięcina.
2019 December
Chocolate Festival in the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw
2019 November
Panama. We visit the cocoa plantation in Panama, archipelago Bocas del Toro and the coffee plantations in Boquete and Volcano on the hill of Baru volcano
2019 October
Natural Food Fair NATURA FOOD in Łódź
2019 September
We present out offer during Warsaw Food Expo.
2019 July
St. Vitus Market (Jarmark św Wita) – the market square in Żywiec
2019 June
Coffee Festival in Cracow
2019 May
Another dispatch from overseas – DCM 70, from now on we also work on this machine
2019 April
Chocolate Festival in Bielsko Biała
2019 March
Coffee Festival in Wilson Shaft Gallery and for the first time we offer our new product Arriba Cacao Brew for our guests to try – a natural cacao for brewing
2019 February
Sigep Rimini – ice cream fair in the colours of chocolate
2019 January
Our cafe “Słodki Przystanek” in Szczyrk and the offer of pralines
YEAR 2018
2018 December
We take part in Christmas markets in Żywiec, in Bielsko Biała and in Cięcina.
This month we also launch new packaging for bean to bar chocolates with a drawing of a cocoa tree.
2018 November
It was a very intensive month.
To start with, we visit Salon du Chocolate in Paris, and after two weeks we take part in the first fair – Eko Styl in Bielsko Biała.
At the end of the month we visit a Caribbean Island that used to be called Hispaniola – this name was given to an aromatic variety of cocoa grown in the Dominican Republic.
2018 October
Our production is developing. 4 melangers work day and night, 7 days a week.
2018 September
Our first bean to bar chocolate bars: Peru, Ecuador and Costa Rica – from beans brought in a suitcase from our travel to Costa Rica :). Our chocolates were presented during Coffee Festival in Kazimierz Dolny.
2018 August
Winnower – a device for removing the outer shell from the cocoa beans. You connect it to a vacuum system and pour cocoa beans after grinding. Heavier cocoa bean meat, i.e. nibs fall down and a lightweight shell is sucked to the container. (At present, this machine is used by Arka Dziczka in the manufactory Dzika Czekolada in Masuria)
2018 August
Mechanisation leading to development! Champion Juicer used as a grinder.
2018 July
The first deliveries of cocoa and the first batch of roasted cocoa. Manual removal of shells from cocoa beans. Extremely time-consuming activity.
2018 June
Hurray !!! We received the first delivery of melangers – the stone cocoa grinders are the most popular devices used for home and craft manufacturing of chocolate.
2018 May
In May we open our “Słodki Przystanek” in Żywiec – it is our factory shop where we present our offer of chocolates. In Żywiec we also roast coffee and sell ice cream “Słodki Przystanek”.
2018 April
In April we participated for the first time in the Chocolate Festival in the market square in Bielsko Biała and during this event I had the pleasure to meet the greatest Polish chocoholic – Natalia from blogczekolady.pl.
2018 April
Costa Rica charmed us not only with chocolate, but also with coffee. As a result, we roasted out first batch of coffee in April and we created our most popular coffee – ‘Beskidzki Blend’.
2018 March
Sweet Fair in Katowice – the stand of IRCA brand, with pralines and macarons created by Aga.
2018 February
Costa Rica – pura vida – this is where our adventure with bean to bar chocolate started. At that time, we were not familiar with the term ‘bean-to-bar’, but we visited 3 chocolate manufactories and we had a chance to make chocolate with own hands for the first time. We saw how it is done.
YEAR 2017
2017 December
For the first time we presented our products during the Christmas Market in Bielsko Biała. Chocolate bars with additives, chocolates of various shapes, broken chocolate, fruit in chocolate.
Our first packages – the so called coffins – not a great success
2017 November
Our first chocolate products – bars, pralines, truffles
2017 September
This moment should be considered as the start of our chocolate adventure. 2400 km – it is the distance from Żywiec to Palermo, where we travelled with Aga for tourist and commercial reasons. We visited Italy for sightseeing and we also bought chocolate tempering machines.
