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The Global Japanese Tea Association – Japanese Tea Marathon – Day 3 | Kumamoto
Day 3 of the Japanese Tea Marathon has arrived and just like the previous post I’ll be taking you through everything I have learnt in today’s session including information about the region, tea within the region and information about today’s guest tea producer and the teas they produce. Today’s Tea region is Kumamoto, which is…
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The Global Japanese Tea Association – Japanese Tea Marathon – Day 2 | Miyazaki
Day 2 of the Japanese tea marathon hosted by The Global Japanese Tea Association! For today’s marathon workshop we learnt all about Miyazaki. So just like yesterdays post, in this post I’m going to go through what we learnt about the region, the tea that grows there and what we learnt about the guest farmer…
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The Global Japanese Tea Association – Japanese Tea Marathon – Day 1 | Kagoshima
Japanese tea is facing many challenges; younger people are moving to coffee, consumption is going down, tea is changing shape and being consumed mostly from bottles rather than being prepared in the traditional way with teaware like the Kyusu. Tea production has fallen 30% in the last 15 years – younger people don’t want to…
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Matcha Monday Masterclasses | Matcha Grading & How To Ensure You Are Getting The Best Quality
Hey There Teacups! Happy Matcha Monday.. I’m finally back today with the next instalment of my Matcha Monday Masterclasses series and this time around we are going to be taking a deep dive into the world of matcha grading, what it indicates in terms of the quality of your matcha and why it deffinelty need…
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Matcha Monday Masterclasses | How Is Matcha Produced?
Hey there Teacups…Happy Matcha Monday! Before I get into todays Matcha Monday Masterclass post I just want to take a moment to thank you all for being so understand over on Instagram when it come to me taking a little bit of a posting break throughout the later end of last week, I really needed…