The UK Tea Academy

This course is designed for anyone who has completed the Tea Champion Theory course either by attending our eight live webinars or having taken the self-study course. The four webinars will together cover all the practical elements of our Tea Champion course (tasting, brewing, blending, etc) that could not be taught in the theory courses.

Having completed the Tea Champion Practical course, students can then take the Tea Champion multiple-choice exam (no additional cost) in order to qualify as a UK Tea Academy Tea Champion.

Price: £375 inclusive of VAT

£25 postage for non-UK addresses. Restrictions apply, please make sure you read the information on this page carefully before making your booking, especially if you live in Spain or Portugal.

WHAT DOES IT COVER?

• The basics of tasting and how we taste
• Tasting practice of a black and a green tea
• What makes a good cup of tea
• Water for brewing and comparative tastings
• Brewing with filtered and unfiltered tap water
• The correct and incorrect water temperature
• The correct and incorrect steep time
• Separating tea leaves from the liquor
• Different teapots - what's good, what's not
• Terroir and tasting similar teas from different origins
• Taste 5 black teas
• Taste 3 green teas
• Taste 2 white teas
• Taste 3 oolong teas
• Taste 1 yellow tea
• Taste 3 Puerh teas (2 raw and 1 cooked)
• Taste flavoured teas
• Blind tasting
• The principles of tea blending; trainees make their own blend

This course consists of 4 x 180 minute webinar modules, delivered through Zoom meetings. There will be some homework activities in between each module. All teas will be sent to you in advance of the first webinar. UK-based students will also receive a Brita water filter, although overseas students will need to supply their own.

There are additional mandatory equipment requirements for everyone registered on this course. We will send you a list with full instructions and options for brewing equipment after you have booked your place, but please note that you may need to source some essential kit if you do not already have infusor baskets and teapots or suitable vessels in your kitchen.

It is important that you are available to accept your tea delivery (please note we cannot deliver to PO Boxes), as the course cannot be taken without the correct teas.

WHAT WILL I NEED?

You will need to attend the webinars with immediate access to a good-sized surface on which to prepare the teas and make notes, as well as access to a kettle for heating water, and other small pieces of kit. We recommend that you take these webinars in a kitchen with access to water, waste and a suitable surface in case of spillage.

1. Your computer or phone to join the webinars via Zoom

2. Access to filtered water Access to filtered water (not mineral water) is an essential requirement for this course.

3. Access to a printer We will be releasing handouts, homework tasks and supporting materials such as charts, which you may wish to print out so that you can use them and make notes as you progress through the course.

4. A surface on which to prepare teas, and some necessary teaware items that you should have in your own home. A list of items will be shared with you through your class resource centre. An email with details of how to access the resources will come to you three weeks before your class starts.

5. Brewing and tasting utensils Prepare your own from the list we will share with you, which will include suggested brewing equipment that you will probably already have access to.

PLEASE NOTE: all webinars are delivered live through zoom and are recorded and later shared privately with the class. In this way, anybody who misses a webinar or wishes to re-watch and brew the teas again, can do so in their own time. By booking this course, you are giving permission for the webinars to be recorded and shared with your small class of trainees.