Sydney Tea Festival 2017
Taste new teas, ferment your own kombucha, and learn to forage for ingredients for your next tea party.
Overview
Get ready to cosy up this winter at the Sydney Tea Festival. If you have a yearning for an Earl Grey or a passion for Russian Caravan, this event is sure to warm your cockles. When the festival opens at Carriageworks on Sunday, August 20, you'll find all manner of tea-related talks, workshops and tastings to extend your appreciation of the finest brew.
One workshop, held by Jesse Munro Gurugir from local health and wellness company Lore Australia, will explore native Australian teas and bush foods, and tell you how you can forage for ingredients for your next tea party. In another, MasterChef Australia guest star Bernard Chu from LuxBite teaches you how to bake with tea. Take the kombucha workshop to second ferment and flavour your own variety of fermented tea with Jaimee Edwards of Cornersmith cafés (who knows a thing or two about fermenting).
Talks will also cover tea basics and origins, and there will be over 60 stallholders to show their wares and teach you about food pairings or tea ceremonies, from Urban Beehive and LongLeaf Tea Vodka to Chocolate Tea and The Tea Nomad. Tickets are $15.50, and you should book ahead for tickets to the workshops and talks. Get ready to curl those frosty hands around a warm cuppa and escape Sydney's winter chill.
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