Matcha Resources | Mizuba Tea Co.

What is the difference between ceremonial and culinary matcha?

What is the Difference Between Ceremonial Grade and Culinary Grade Matcha?

Ever wonder what the terms ceremonial or culinary matcha actually mean? What should you buy? Do the terms make a difference in quality? What makes a quality matcha, anyway? Learn...

Man drinking kyobancha Japanese roasted tea and looks out the window

How to Store Matcha Powder and Japanese Loose Leaf Teas

By Mariah Bourne Our farmers take great care in growing and harvesting your matcha and loose leaf teas, so naturally you’ll want to take great care in properly...

Matcha Caffeine Content: How Much Caffeine is in Your Matcha?

Does Matcha green tea have Caffeine? If you’re wondering about the caffeine in matcha green tea, let’s just say there’s a lot to learn. Drinking matcha is an excellent...

Mizuba Tea’s Matcha Mastery - Santa Barbara Independent

Our favorite hometown press, The Santa Barbara Independent, recently caught up with Mizuba's founder, Lauren, to chat about Mizuba Tea's ethos in working with our farm partners in Japan.

Catching up with world-renowned chef Naomi Pomeroy

We recently caught up with Naomi Pomeroy — the James Beard award-winning owner of Ripe Cooperative, here in Portland, OR — to chat about food, life, and her amazing new...

Mizuba Matcha on The Manual

What Is Matcha? A Guide to the Green Tea with Mizuba Tea Co.’s Lauren Purvis By Chelsea Batten November 21, 2019 Doesn’t it seem like ages ago that American culture, so naive...

Cafe Feature: Boon Boona

We thought we'd take a moment today to highlight one of our partners: Boon Boona Coffee, in Renton, WA. Much like matcha is the star of Japan's iconic tea ceremony, did...

Matcha Latte Nut Butter by Mizuba + Ground Up

Our Interview with Ground Up

We are so happy to collaborate with the wonderful ladies at Ground Up for our brand-new Matcha Latte Nut Butter! Their mission (beyond making delicious nut butter) is to employ...

Artist Series No. 2: Matcha-grams! Our interview with artist Abbie Tjaden

Recently we had a chance to sit down with Abbie Tjaden of ARTJADEN and ask her a few questions. Abbie is a Portland-based artist, and she is responsible for designing...

Learn About Mizuba: The Basics

What is Matcha? Matcha is a fine, powdered version of the same leaf all tea originates from: the Camellia sinensis plant. However, the methods used to make matcha are...

Rare Purple Bamboo Matcha Green Tea Chasen Whisk

New: Dark Wood Chasen

Our beautiful dark wood chasen is made from wild purple bamboo. Artisans look for a hard, thin stalk — usually about 2 to 2.5 centimeters thick, and 9 to 12 cm long. The bamboo must be dried...

Single Cultivar Uji Hikari Japanese Matcha Green Tea

We are humbled at the opportunity to work with renowned matcha producer Mr. Kiyoharu Tsuji. Having won countless awards in Japan for his teas, 5th-generation master farmer Tsuji san is responsible for one of the...

Our team picks their favorite matchas of the moment

Every matcha we offer has its own special place in the Mizuba collection, but we recently sat down with our team to learn about their favorite matcha of the moment. Read on to...

Natural Matcha Skincare: An Interview with Heart of Gold

Matcha takes care of us, inside & out. For this upcoming Valentine's season, we're reminded that it's *so* important to take a (matcha)moment for yourself! We hear it all the...

Ever Heard of a Matcha Latte Throwdown?

Check out an inside look at one of specialty coffee's most fun events!

The Word "Matcha" Added to Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Though the tea itself may be shy of 1,000 years old, according to Merriam-Webster, the first known use of the word "matcha" wasn't until 1881. Keep going until Sept. 17th, 2019,...