TEA AND CHOCOLATE PAIRING EVENING

Tuesday 26th November
6.30 - 8.30pm

25 Lavington Street, London, SE1 0NZ

FULLY BOOKED, WAITING LIST ONLY

Join us for an unmissable interactive tea and chocolate tasting tutored by the founders of Marulin teas and Fifth Dimension Chocolates. In this tasting experience, you will enjoy six unique Taiwanese teas with six amazing chocolates. During the session, you will learn how some of the teas and chocolates are made, how to differentiate good quality products, and the interesting stories behind the flavours.

Included in the ticket price is a complimentary Marulin teacup.

After the event you will be able to purchase the teas and chocolates - perfect for unique and delicious Christmas presents! Don't miss this fantastic taste experience!

We will taste the following teas and suggest their chocolate pairings:

• Alishan Handpicked Milk Oolong (Great Taste 2**)
• Uncle Lin’s Four Seasons Oolong version 3 (Spring 2018) (Great Taste 1*)
• Dark Roasted Dong Ding Oolong (Great Taste 1*)
• Honey Black Tea - Handpicked
• Sun Moon Lake ‘Apple Brandy’ Black Tea
• Hakka Tea with Green Tea

About Marulin: Marulin is an award-winning independent London-based tea company that sources artisanal teas from their family farms and friends in Taiwan. With four generations of tea farmers, producers, and masters in their family, Marulin’s heritage is rooted in making fine, unique oolong teas in small batches. Marulin’s team includes trained Tea Sommeliers from the UK Tea Academy. The company’s founder, Chau-Jean Lin, is the tutor for UK Tea Academy Taiwanese tea Masterclass.

About Fifth Dimension Chocolates: Fifth Dimension Chocolates is an internationally-renowned British chocolatier specialising in luxury handmade chocolates and caramel sauces. The aim is to create a sensory experience in fine chocolates, by combining classic and unusual flavours with chocolate using premium, fine flavour single-origin cocoa.

This London-based company has won over 50 awards since it was founded in 2013 by Russell Pullan and Albert Chau - both are self-taught when it comes to chocolate-making and flavour development, and both are certified chocolate tasters from the International Institute of Chocolate and Cacao Tasting.

WAITING LIST

CHRISTMAS DRINKS: TEA COCKTAILS & MOCKTAILS

Wednesday 4th December 2019
6.30 - 8.30pm

25 Lavington Street, London, SE1 0NZ

Tickets £15 each (Incl. VAT)

Come and celebrate Christmas with the UK Tea Academy.

At this festive tasting event we will taste samples of different Tea Cocktails: you will learn the recipes for each drink as well as receiving a lesson on tea mixology so you can continue to make your own delicious tea cocktails at home.

Ticket price includes: 1 full tea cocktail or mocktail, tasters of multiple cocktail recipes, and festive nibbles.

We are busy working on the full cocktail menu for the evening, cocktails tasted may include but are not limited to:

• Mi Lan Dan Cong infused Gin and Tonic
• Chai Old Fashioned
• Oolong Martini
• Tea Mocktails
• …and more

Tickets sell fast for our Academy Extra events, so book your place now to avoid disappointment!

BOOK YOUR PLACE

TEA AND CHOCOLATE PAIRING EVENING

Second event added due to popular demand!

Wednesday 11th December 2019
6.30 - 8.30pm

25 Lavington Street, London, SE1 0NZ

Join us for an unmissable interactive tea and chocolate tasting tutored by the founders of Marulin teas and Fifth Dimension Chocolates. In this tasting experience, you will enjoy six unique Taiwanese teas with six amazing chocolates. During the session, you will learn how some of the teas and chocolates are made, how to differentiate good quality products, and the interesting stories behind the flavours.

Included in the ticket price is a complimentary Marulin teacup.

After the event you will be able to purchase the teas and chocolates - perfect for unique and delicious Christmas presents! Don't miss this fantastic taste experience!

We will taste the following teas and suggest their chocolate pairings:

• Alishan Handpicked Milk Oolong (Great Taste 2**)
• Uncle Lin’s Four Seasons Oolong version 3 (Spring 2018) (Great Taste 1*)
• Dark Roasted Dong Ding Oolong (Great Taste 1*)
• Honey Black Tea - Handpicked
• Sun Moon Lake ‘Apple Brandy’ Black Tea
• Hakka Tea with Green Tea

About Marulin: Marulin is an award-winning independent London-based tea company that sources artisanal teas from their family farms and friends in Taiwan. With four generations of tea farmers, producers, and masters in their family, Marulin’s heritage is rooted in making fine, unique oolong teas in small batches. Marulin’s team includes trained Tea Sommeliers from the UK Tea Academy. The company’s founder, Chau-Jean Lin, is the tutor for UK Tea Academy Taiwanese tea Masterclass.

About Fifth Dimension Chocolates: Fifth Dimension Chocolates is an internationally-renowned British chocolatier specialising in luxury handmade chocolates and caramel sauces. The aim is to create a sensory experience in fine chocolates, by combining classic and unusual flavours with chocolate using premium, fine flavour single-origin cocoa.

This London-based company has won over 50 awards since it was founded in 2013 by Russell Pullan and Albert Chau - both are self-taught when it comes to chocolate-making and flavour development, and both are certified chocolate tasters from the International Institute of Chocolate and Cacao Tasting.

BOOK YOUR PLACE

THE UKTA EVOLVES

Three years ago, we established the UK Tea Academy to spread an appreciation of tea and raise service standards in F&B with professional tea training. We have tutored more than 500 students from all over the world through our certification programme and have developed a full programme of events around tea in our Academy Extras. This year we have developed a new brand identity, a new website and secured a permanent home. We have international reach through our Licenced Trainers in Scotland, Italy, Japan and S Korea, with more joining soon. And later this year we will launch an introductory Online Foundation course. We hold regular events, tastings, talks and workshops at our London Tea Studio (see Academy Extras) and will be introducing new courses and Masterclasses.

We believe The UK Tea Academy is already one of the foremost tea training centres in the world and, thanks to the dedication of our tutors, brewing team and volunteers, we are proud of the success of our students and look forward to sending out into the world many more certified Tea Champions and Sommeliers to share the love and respect for this fabulous leaf.

OUR NEW HOME

UK Tea Academy is thrilled to have moved into its own studio classroom at 25 Lavington Street, London, SE1 0NZ.

Our new room is in a reclaimed building owned and managed by Sustainable Workspaces, a company that reclaims and refurbishes disused or decommissioned buildings and converts then into sustainably-run private offices, workshops, meeting rooms and event spaces.

UK TEA BREWERS CHAMPIONSHIP

We are delighted to announce the launch of The UK Tea Brewer's Championship
in partnership with The Beverage Standards Association.

We need all you skilled and enthusiastic professionals to sign up and show the UK your fabulous, innovative ways with tea!

FIRST PRIZE: The grand winner of the UK Tea Brewer's Championship will win free Tea Champion and Tea Sommelier courses with the UKTA (or other UKTA courses to the value of £1000 if these courses have been completed).

Runners up will win a selection of fine Limited Edition teas from top tea companies.

ENTER NOW

The competition is:

• a professional platform to showcase the talent of anyone working in the tea service industry (i.e. working in: Hotels, Restaurants, Cafés, Tea Houses, Tea Rooms, Coffee Shops, Tea/Coffee companies) who want to show off their craft and flair in producing a range of tea beverages to a professional standard. If you are dedicated tea enthusiast not working in the F&B sector - no problem! We want to see your skills too.
• a way to improve the standards of tea served in the Out of Home (OOH) market throughout the UK, Europe and Asia

ENTRY CRITERIA: The competition is open to anyone working in the tea serving industry (i.e. working in: Hotels, Restaurants, Cafés, Tea Houses, Tea Rooms, Coffee Shops, Tea/Coffee companies) and dedicated amateur tea brewers.

COMPETITION OUTLINE

1. Classic Brewing Skills session: Candidates will be asked to prepare the perfect cup of tea in each category of teas (green, white, black, yellow etc.) using the classic methods and classic standards (water capacity, quantity of tea, different temperatures, etc).
2. Description and tasting notes comparison vs actual taste of the competitor’s chosen teas for the preparation of the classic teas per each category.
3. Description and tasting notes comparison vs actual taste of the competitor’s signature drink chosen tea (prepared in a classic way and with no added ingredients)
4. Signature Drink session: competitors will showcase a Signature Tea Based Drink of their choice/invention; this can be prepared using any chosen brewing/extraction methods and can contain different ingredients including spirits, syrups, veg and fruits, and it can be a cold or hot drink.

TERMS & CONDITIONS

1. Only loose teas shall be used during the competition (infusions shall not be used for the preparation of the signature drinks unless they contain pure teas in them).
2. The Candidates will have to bring their chosen teas to prepare their signature drink; they will need to be able to explain the reasons behind their choice and the tasting profile of their teas while doing the brewing.
3. The signature drink shall be the same throughout the competition and shall be tasting consistently also throughout the competition.

In the inaugural year – 2019/20 the elimination process will be

• Heat one at the BSA PopUp Show on Thursday 20th June 2019
• Heat two at Caffe Culture held on the 28th & 29th October 2019 (on day 1 & 2)
• Semi-final and Finals will be held at the London Tea Show, which which will take place in March 2020 at the Business Design Centre, Islington, London.

ENTER THE UK TEA BREWERS CHAMPIONSHIP