Taste of OLLI: Chocolate with Caldera Cacao Roasters (LOTTERY)

🔥 Lottery: Aug 27–Sept 2 • Full registration: Aug 28
Dates: September 19, 2025
Meets: F from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
 Location: Bozeman MT - Caldera Cacao Roasters
Cost:  $40.00

There are still openings remaining at this time.

Date Day Time
09/19/2025Friday1 PM to 3 PM

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Please note: This course program requires membership in a 2025-2026 OLLI at MSU Membership

Lottery Information

A lottery process is in effect for this program. Lottery entry opens August 27, 2025 and closes at the end of the day September 2, 2025. Selected registrants will be notified via email by September 4, 2025. Any registrants who are not selected will be placed on the waitlist in case of a cancellation. Click or tap here for full details about the lottery process.

Description

In this semester's installment of the "Taste of OLLI" series, Caldera Cacao Roasters is offering "Cacao 101." Learn where cacao is grown, its use, agronomic considerations, ethical trade considerations and more! Then, enjoy a tour of their chocolate factory and participate in a single-origin chocolate tasting. Experience the craft reformation happening in chocolate, like what happened with coffee and beer over the last decade.

Participants must be able to stand and walk for 20-30 minutes in a climate-controlled facility. Please wear comfortable, closed-toe shoes and clothing that can be stained if a spill occurs.

This program is limited to 25 participants.

Program Takeaways

Participants will learn:

  • Where cacao is grown.
  • Agronomic and ethical trade considerations.
  • How chocolate is made from cacao beans.

Scholarship

Apply for a needs-based scholarship to take this offering.

Fee:  $40.00

Fee Breakdown

DescriptionAmount
OLLI Member$ 40.00
OLLI member with a partner$ 80.00

Bozeman MT - Caldera Cacao Roasters

30 Shawnee Way, Unit F
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Logan Burgess

Logan Burgess operates Caldera Cacao Roasters, a bean-to-bar chocolate factory, with his wife, Lauren, in Bozeman. Bean-to-bar means they do all the steps to take raw cacao beans and make dark chocolate. Logan graduated from MSU with a business degree focused on finance in 2011 and worked as a financial writer before starting the chocolate company. Logan and Lauren spent time living and traveling in Central and South America, focusing on buying fair-trade cacao from Ecuador, Guatemala and Peru.