CLEARANCE: Extract Grade Vanilla Beans for Extracts, Indonesian Planifolia

We are selling our remaining supply of Indonesia vanilla beans to accommodate a steadily growing increase in demand for Madagascan extract-grade vanilla beans.

If you love using vanilla beans for baking and desserts, you’ll want to get some of these vanilla beans at our steep discount. They are great for  holiday recipes, bakeries, and they make great gifts too.

Right now, our Indonesian vanilla beans are on sale — over 50% off! But don’t wait! These savings are only good as long as we have the beans in stock.

Yes! You can make vanilla extract with Grade A beans. The FDA formula for making vanilla extract with Grade A vanilla beans requires a minimum of 15 ounces of beans to 1 gallon of alcohol solution in which the content of ethyl alcohol by volume amounts to not less than 35 percent—like Vodka, various types of rum, bourbon, or pure ethyl alcohol. 

When to Use

Extract grade vanilla beans are made for extracting its flavor by brewing into beer, ale, and vanilla extract using a simple Vodka, a food grade ethyl alcohol, or food grade glycerin.

Grade B vanilla beans, also referred to as extract grade vanilla beans, are  dryer than the soft and supple grade A vanilla beans and not as pretty as regular vanilla beans. they are various sizes and have superficial color blemishes.

The aroma is locked deep in the flesh of the extract-grade vanilla bean. The dryness concentrates the flavor and gives you more vanilla beans per pound.

How many extract-grade vanilla beans do you need for your extract?
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Making Vanilla Extract.
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Product: Indonesian Extract Grade/Grade B Vanilla Beans, planifolia
Origin: Indonesia
Harvest: 2021
Color: Chocolate
Vanillin Rate: About 1.7%
Moisture Rate: 18%-25%

Packaged in Ambient-Air — Never Vacuum Packed 

We package our vanilla in ambient air packaging.

In a technical article by Daphna Havkin-Frenkel, Ph.D.; MBA she explains the negative effects of vacuum packaging vanilla and why we should not utilize that method. 

Vacuum packaging vanilla beans can create an environment for anaerobic bacteria to grow. The benefit of keeping vanilla beans in ambient air packaging is that vanilla will continue to cure and develop flavor. We know of a vanilla bean seller in California with 10-year-old vanilla beans that they continue to cure like a fine aged wine.