ADV.12 Formulating Delicious Blends
In this course, you will use your knowledge of your flavor system, coupled with an understanding of the chemistry of teas, herbs, spices, fruits, and flowers, to create delicious blends and explore how blends can fit into lifestyles and life experiences.
- Last Updated: 12/2025
- English
- Certificate on Completion
$285.00 USD
- Full Lifetime Access
- Custom Certificate
What you will learn
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Understand and explain the organoleptic considerations underlying blend creation
- Evaluate which combinations of teas, botanical infusions, herbs, spices, and fruits will be the most delicious, and which ones will be the least
- Use specific vocabulary to allow the consumer to anticipate the flavors they will experience when brewing and sipping different blends
- Use your knowledge to explore new possibilities for ingredients in blends.
Overview
This class introduces you to the organoleptic principles, and their underlying biology and chemistry, that allow you to create delicious blends of teas and other botanical infusions with herbs, spices, and fruits. In the process of creating these different blends you will experience and understand why certain combinations succeed while others fail, thus preparing you to create your own blends from scratch. You will use your knowledge and experiences to develop a vocabulary for describing the best blends, and then create, name, describe, and critique your own blend.
In this course, you will use your knowledge of your flavor system, coupled with an understanding of the chemistry of teas, herbs, spices, fruits, and flowers, to create delicious blends and explore how blends can fit into lifestyles and life experiences. The course author is Virginia Utermohlen Lovelace MD. Please Click here to read her bio.
Great News: Your Kits Are Now Included in the Purchase!
Getting started has never been easier. When you enroll in a course, all required teas and ingredients are included in the purchase. Australian Tea Masters will prepare and ship them directly to your door, so you’re ready to start learning right away. Please allow two working days for your kit to be shipped to you and at least one week for the products to arrive. All products are shipped via Australia Post International Express.
Students will need to supply the following additional materials BEFORE the class starts. These are not included in the class kit:
- Two professional cupping sets
- An instant read thermometer
- A digital gram scale
- A timer
- 3-5 cups that should hold at least 50 ml or 1.7 fluid ounces.
Course Content
Week One: Overview of Blending
Week Two: Organoleptic Experience of Blending
Week Three: Overview of Blends Using Botanical Infusions
$285.00 USD
- Full Lifetime Access
- Certificate on Completion
- Self-paced, no expiration date, 100% online
Add a review
Currently, we are not accepting new reviews
100%
0%
0%
0%
0%
1-5 of 6 reviews
I really like this course. It would have been great to have some quizzes in here as I quite like those for instant feedback on how well you are absorbing information.
This was a really informative course and felt that this would be very helpful when deciding between ingredients for blend formulation. Just want to point out though, that the amount of cocoa nibs provided as tea materials for this class wasn’t enough for this course. There was only 12g provided but we needed minimum 14g (not including the amount needed for creating our own bend). Other than that, everything was well explained! Thank you!
Very interesting class I learned a lot
I thoroughly enjoyed this course. I learnt new things about flavor combinations and the science behind them. Initially I felt the content was a little scant but then, of course, I realized the biggest part of learning is having a go yourself with the learning tools you have been given. Thank you – a great course. I would certainly recommend it.
This course challenged me. I have finished the course but I’m now enticed to study the subject even more – probably for the rest of my life! A great start to the art of blending.