Third Eye Brewing Double Astral chocolate imperial stout has won numerous awards over the years, but that doesn’t mean brewmaster Kelly Montgomery is done tinkering with it. He recently brewed a batch using Liberian cacao from Kemu Farms and Haitian PISA nibs, both roasted by Violet Sky Chocolate. Here’s how it came to be.

Otis Kemutambah survived Liberia’s civil war in the 1990s before immigrating to Detroit, and is now returning to his homeland to start Kemu Farms to grow cacao, providing jobs and hope to a recovering nation.