2019-07-03 Liquor Commission Minutes

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Nahale-a: Thank you. Any public testimony for this application? There was no public testimony. Nahale-a: Seeing none, commissioners, discussion or questions of applicant? Greenwell: Help educate me. Are you mixing liquor, alcohol, with the chocolate? Potter: No, not the chocolate, but just the regular ingredients. Like the juice that comes out of the cocoa fruit. So just as flavoring. Greenwell: So, it's flavoring added to a drink? VanEgtern: We're going to utilize the liquor license to make cocktails that are chocolate inspired, like a chocolate espresso martini or a cocoa old fashion. We're not putting liquor into our chocolate bars. Those are 100 percent non-alcoholic, because you can't put any liquids into chocolate without destroying the temper of the chocolate. But what we would like to do is make a chocolate bar that has inspired cocktails from chocolate. There is a fruit pulp around all the cocoa beans and we collect the juice on the first day of the fermentation. Then we pasteurize that and usually use that as samples; but another thing that you can utilize that juice for is an inspired mai tai using that liquid, as well as a margarita and possibly a cocoa mimosa using that liquid. Greenwell: Do you have any competition? Is anybody else on the island doing the same thing you're doing? Potter: No one is. Nahale-a: Interesting. VanEgtern: Thanks. Greenwell: okay. Nahale-a: Any questions? Discussion? Thomas: I have a question. Are the beverages meant to be just sold and sampled on the premises or are you going to package them so people can take them out? VanEgtern: Alcoholic ones only for the shop and we probably won't be able to ever have enough production to do bottled types or to sell later on in the future; but you never know, someday. Thomas: Right. Thank you. Nahale-a: Any other questions? There were no other questions from the commissioners. July 3, 2019 --LIQUOR COMMISSION MINUTES 14