Kettle's tea tasting and tea brewing program and my experiences

When I was skimming through my face book page ,I got to know about Kettle's  tea tasting and tea brewing workshop" from Nithya's fbpage...I am not a frenzy lover of tea nor have attended any of such 

programs but all of a sudden I navigated to the link and commented asking Kettle to "Count me in "...Was also a surprise to see me in the finalist list :)It was just a treat for me...

                Ok now that I was in the attendees list ,I was on glee...But I was bit skeptic about attending  the program for myriad reasons..Firstly it's been an eon since I visited my native and my mom 

had also requested to come to my hometown on 27th which accidently is my Thatha's thavasam...I was pondering about it and finally I  re-planned my hometown visit to November...extremely sorry mom :(

I was almost waiting to attend the program and my little boy Pranav fell ill on 27th...I was bit hesitant to attend it, as I was also bit low because of Pranav's health...My  hubby and in-laws assured me to take

due care of my son and so I made up my mind to attend the program...

                I took an auto from my place(Triplicane) by 2.30pm and was meaning to be punctual at the venue as the program was scheduled to start by 3.30pm...Heck with the traffic and I managed to find Kettle 

only by 3.15...

                The person at the reception was so cordial and I completed my registration...Preethi the host welcomed me with a cute smile and that was an ice breaker I tell ya :)I have never attended such programs and it was pretty new for me...All news faces and I was pretty excited...

Preethi gave us an intro about the tea and process related to it...Kettle offers different varieties of tea which included Green tea, Black Tea, Organic white tea and Oolong Tea...These are the major 

varieties and we have many sub varieties in the main variety..

Then we were served with Black current iced tea...It tasted divine...While we were busy tasting the tea, a demo was introduced and we flocked there...The trick to make a magic tea is to  choose the best

variety of tea leaves..Kettle has a good number of such tea leaf varieties...We were shown the different tea leaves and we smelled the aroma too:)The brewing process was shown in the demo...A special tea 

pot with a strainer was used...The tea leaves were added in the strainer of the pot and boiling water was added...For 1 serving roughly 3g of tea leaves was used...The water level can be 120 ml...This is 

just a rough estimate and may vary depending on the flavour and the nature of the tea variety...The water was  in tact with the strainer and the essence of the tea leaves  got merged with the water and the vessel

was kept un-disturbed for approximately 3 minutes and then it was added in the serving glass..Sugar syrup and lime juice may be added as an option…

Then we were served with Black tea with Demarara sugar...While I was sipping my tea I was given a plate full of potato wedges, sandwich and puffs...Loved every bite of it...

We had good number of demos...Saw the brewing of Hibiscus tea and also tasted it...We were then served with Green tea and a banana walnut cake dripped with chocolate sauce was waiting for us :)I relished it a lot...Then we tasted Organic white tea...Finally  We were served with "Mystery Tea" was asked to name the tea...The winner was awarded a gift voucher...And yeah the mystery tea was "Apricot tea"...

To be honest I could not differentiate between Black current iced tea and Apricot tea...Also I could not differentiate between Green tea and an Organic white tea...

Black current iced tea,Hibiscus tea and Apricot tea tops my list though...

Kettle is situated in a serene place of Shanthi colony, Anna nagar...The ambience is just too good..They serve tea with all smiles...If you are a  tea lover who would love to have  a best tea of it’s kind  then Kettle should be in your must go list...

We were given a small goodie bag which had  the tea leaves and I chose Hibiscus tea leaves...

I made a biggest mistake of not taking my digi cam and so could not click any...

It is one experience I can never forget in ma life for it gave me a chance to see many new faces, it gave me a chance to taste the finest varieties of tea, it gave me a chance to visit a new place and above all it gave me a chance to update ma blog which would be dormant otherwise...

Thanks Kettle for this lovely opportunity...Cya soon :)