Devries Chocolate [Denver]

[jlunar]

What happened to him?! His website is non-functional and I'm not finding any news... I thought I'd ping you guys on this board to see if anyone knew...

*sniff* his chocolate was phenomenally good.

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Steven DeVries Chocolate Maker
3153 Larimer St, Denver, CO

[j_brodu]

UPDATE: DeVries Chocolate's site seems to be functional again. He still has not updated it from a short online store closure on 7/25/08, but he seems to have reinstated the site. - http://www.devrieschocolate.com/

[jlunar]

I'm glad he got it back! It's always a pain to get domains back from squatters w/o paying through the nose.

[luniz]

He's still working, he came to Dallas a month or two ago for a tasting. But he hasn't had anything for sale on his website for quite a while. He may have stopped selling retail, I'm not really sure. He didn't bring anything to sell, just samples and he was somewhat mysterious about his intentions.

[jlunar]

Buuuh. That's a bummer. I sent him an email a couple weeks ago and didn't hear anything back, so I don't know if the email is still in use or not. I thought he might have gotten out of the biz. Good to hear that he's still about.

Now if only I could get some of his Dominican...

thanks for the update Luniz!

[soliz]

I too have been looking for Steve. I was with him in Costa Rica a few years back and we spoke quite a few times. There was some illness in his family and although I kept emailing and sending messages with friends, he never responded. His site said it would be closed for a few months, but it turned into years!
Just a few days ago I went to his site and it was permanently down, but the BIG surprise was that a new Steve Devries site was up and it was the most God awful pink website I have ever seen and it had nothing to do with Devries of the past. It was not even about his chocolate at all, it was about M & M's and all the shit stuff. I kept going back and forth thinking I had made a mistake. It was a real bummer to see him sell out. I am still bummed about it.

[jlunar]

I think that this was maybe that he let his domain expire and some squatter picked it up. Since the site's been around for a while, it'll have some weight and traffic, and squatters loooove that.

Just a guess though.

[soliz]

I hope that is it. I could not imagine Steve having a site like that. And I can not imagine him not being in the business of cacao. I hope he surfaces soon.

[jlunar]

me too! I miss his chocolate.

[j_brodu]

He didn't 'sell out'. To the best of my knowledge, his mother is in the middle of a terminal illness, and he has had to halt production for a while. His website domain expired after awhile, and got taken over by squatters, as jlunar said. It may be a long time, but I'm sure he will eventually come back. In the meantime, try Escazu and Rogue Chocolatier - they are not in any way facsimiles, but they are similar, and wonderful in their own way.

[soliz]

Hey Steve, if you read this, we are thinking of you. Best , Solis
.You have my email address...