Matcha 101 - An Introduction Class - January 26 (Ooika Labs)
Unlock the World of Matcha: From Novice to Connoisseur. Learn about Matcha production, cultivation, and stone milling.
Date: Sunday, January 26, 2025
Time: 2PM to 3:30PM.
Location: Ooika, 300 Witherspoon St, Princeton, NJ 08542
Note: Location subject to change to Lawrenceville, New Jersey.
Unlock the World of Matcha: From Novice to Connoisseur. Learn about Matcha production, cultivation, and stone milling.
Date: Sunday, January 26, 2025
Time: 2PM to 3:30PM.
Location: Ooika, 300 Witherspoon St, Princeton, NJ 08542
Note: Location subject to change to Lawrenceville, New Jersey.
Unlock the World of Matcha: From Novice to Connoisseur. Learn about Matcha production, cultivation, and stone milling.
Date: Sunday, January 26, 2025
Time: 2PM to 3:30PM.
Location: Ooika, 300 Witherspoon St, Princeton, NJ 08542
Note: Location subject to change to Lawrenceville, New Jersey.
About Matcha 101 - An Introduction Class
You might think of Matcha as an ingredient: like flour in a bakery. The flour itself isn’t special: the baked goods are. When we see an amazing cake like this we don’t think about the flour. Heritage Matcha is nothing like this. It’s more like wine. Yes, there are recipes that use wine. But when we think about an expensive bottle of wine we don’t think “ingredient” for a cocktail. The wine is the product itself. Like wine, Matcha is the result of master blenders, growing techniques handed down through generations, specific varieties of tea bushes, the soil sky and air of the terroir which changes from year to year.
In our Matcha 101: An Introduction Class, you’ll discover what makes Matcha distinct from ground green tea powder (just like Champagne differs from sparkling wine). Learn to craft Matcha lattes at home—with a delicious hands-on experience during the class. We’ll go over the basics of how Matcha is produced. By the end of the class you’ll have a foundational understanding of what Matcha actually is so you delve deeper into your Matcha obsession.
There’s a Japanese proverb, “a frog in a well knows nothing of the great sea.” We’ve all heard of Matcha: it’s a bowl of ground tea from Japan.
Yet, is that all it is? Intuitively we know that there must be more. After-all: Ancient monks drank it. Emperors revered it. Today an entire way of life known as Chado (Japanese Tea ceremony) centers around this green powder.
Matcha: An Introduction will unravel the master of Matcha, giving you the tools and knowledge to think like a Matcha connoisseur.
