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

A list of ingredients and allergens is available on request

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.

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TEA AND CHEESE PAIRING WITH KYLE WHITTINGTON

Tuesday 21st January 2020
6.30 - 8.30pm

25 Lavington Street, London, SE1 0NZ

£25 per ticket (Incl. VAT)

Tea & Cheese might just be the best kept secret taste sensation. More than just flavour combinations that you get with other ‘Cheese &’ pairings, when paired with Tea, the cheeses not only take on new flavorous in the mouth with each sip of tea but even textures change and develop. Add to this a perfectly clean and refreshed palate for each consecutive pairing experience and you really do have a match made in heaven.

Drawing from a wide experience of pairing Teas and Cheeses, Kyle will share six of his favourite pairings over the evening. Expect taste sensations that’ll leave you wondering why you never tried this before.

About Kyle: Kyle Whittington has run numerous tea tastings and pairing events over the last 6 years and was the first to run monthly tea & cheese tastings for several years in London. He has also ran afternoon teas and tea supper clubs. He now mostly focuses his time on his Japanese Tea Ceremony practice and is currently launching an online Tea Book Club.

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DARK TEA TASTING WITH JUYAN WEBSTER

Thursday 6th February 2020
6.30 - 8.30pm

25 Lavington Street, London, SE1 0NZ

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UK TEA ACADEMY AT CAFFE CULTURE

The UK Tea Academy played an important role at London's Caffe Culture Show in October by organising events designed to raise awareness of good quality, well-brewed tea.

We're delighted to say the second round of the UK Tea Brewer’s Championship attracted a number of inspiring, enthusiastic and talented brewers. Each contestant had to brew three teas – a Japanese Sencha, a Taiwanese High Mountain black tea, and a Phoenix Honey Orchid oolong from China (all difficult to brew well). They also had to present a signature drink containing tea.

Brewing styles varied and demonstrated the thought and care that goes into the successful brewing of hand-crafted tea. For the signature drink, all the competitors showed impressive creativity and skill and the judges were delighted by the effort that went into each one.

The semi-final and final of the Championship will take place at the first London Tea Show in March 2020 - again at the Business Design Centre in Islington. For more information please click here

UKTA’s other prominent involvement at Caffe Culture was the Tea Theatre where a programme of talks and workshops took place throughout the two days of the show.

Presenters and their topics included:

• Jennifer Wood of Canton Tea (The Value of Tea Training)
• Erica Moore of Eteaket Tea Edinburgh (Learn the Art of Tea Mocktails & Cold Brew Tea)
• Carri Hecks, Tutor and Chief Brewer at UKTA (How to Brew Really Good Tea)
• Kyle Whittington, Japanese Tea Specialist (Matcha Basics)
• Alan Wilkinson, The Franchising Centre (Steps to Franchising your Business)
• Jane Pettigrew, Director of Education at UKTA (Current Tea Trends)
• Bernadine Tay, European Tea Society (Capitalising on Tea Trends)

We look forward to organising a similar programme of events at next year’s London Tea Show to be held in March at the Business Design Centre, Islington.

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.