Eric Gower

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Posts by Eric Gower

How To Make Matcha, Breakaway Style Masterclass in Matcha

How To Make Matcha, Breakaway Style

Learn how we like to make matcha here at Breakaway HQ.

How To Store Matcha Masterclass in Matcha

How To Store Matcha

Tips and best practices on the optimal way to keep your matcha happy.

How Matcha is Produced Masterclass in Matcha

How Matcha is Produced

A primer on how Japan’s best farmers grow and process matcha.

Matcha Harvest, Generational Farming, Wendell Berry Journal

Matcha Harvest, Generational Farming, Wendell Berry

The 2019 matcha harvest has pretty much come to a close, as it does every year at this time. By all accounts, it's been an exceptional one.It's the busiest time of the year for both producers of matcha and processors of matcha. The farmers have culminated their year-long efforts, and, if things have

"Enhanced" Matcha, Anyone? Journal

"Enhanced" Matcha, Anyone?

As many of you reading this know, the combination of good matcha and good water, made with some care and love, is one of those sublime and rare experiences that can't be reduced any further. Just two things: matcha, and water. Water quality and water temperature will affect things, to be sure (as wi

Four Styles of Matcha Drinkers Journal

Four Styles of Matcha Drinkers

We talk with a lot of people who enjoy matcha in a variety of ways. Almost everyone is in one of these four groups.     1)  The "just give me the nutrition, please" people.These are people who most concerned about getting all the nutritional goodies that matcha offers (to read more about matcha's ma

Hate Matcha? It's a Rational Decision Journal

Hate Matcha? It's a Rational Decision

Hate matcha? You're being rational.Many of us have had the experience of wanting to like matcha, but upon actual encounter are left with a sad, disappointed, and even mildly disgusted feeling. It's not your fault -- it's the matcha's. It started out bad, and never had a chance. Wherever it came from

What Does Matcha Taste Like? The Wine-ification of Matcha Descriptions Journal

What Does Matcha Taste Like? The Wine-ification of Matcha Descriptions

Matcha, like many things we put inside our bodies, has a taste spectrum. Some of it tastes sublime, and some of it is disgusting to the point of being unpotable. And there's everything in between.I think many of you know what bad matcha tastes like. As my daughter Daphne once memorably described it

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