Discover what’s brewing at the Sip & Share Seminar Stage during the DMV Chocolate & Coffee Festival, Maryland Edition, November 7 & 8 at the Adventist HealthCare Fieldhouse in Germantown. Enjoy educational sessions, demonstrations, expert stories, and interactive festival trivia covering chocolate, coffee, and specialty foods. All sessions are included with festival admission.

Discover what’s brewing at the Sip & Share Seminar Stage during the DMV Chocolate & Coffee Festival, Maryland Edition, November 7 & 8 at the Adventist HealthCare Fieldhouse in Germantown. Enjoy educational sessions, demonstrations, expert stories, and interactive festival trivia covering chocolate, coffee, and specialty foods. All sessions are included with festival admission.

As America celebrates its 250th anniversary, we’re revisiting the familiar story of the nation’s founding generation and uncovering a deliciously unexpected detail: chocolate was part of early American life from the home of George and Martha Washington to the hospitals of the Revolutionary War. Unlike the chocolate most of us know today, drinking chocolate in Washington’s time was not primarily treated as a dessert. It was a valuable imported beverage often associated with no

Big news for our 5th anniversary: the DMV Chocolate & Coffee Festival is now two weekends—Nov 7–8 in Boyds, MD and Nov 14–15 in Sterling, VA. Expect 150+ vendors, tastings, shopping, educational classrooms, photos with Chunk & Bean, and fun for the whole family!