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Don’t like the taste of Matcha? Read this!
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Don’t like the taste of Matcha? Read this!

Just like coffee, my first experience with matcha wasn’t great. It tasted bitter, earthy, and had a strange fish-like smell. Milk helped mask these flavors to a certain degree, but I couldn’t quite understand why matcha beverages were becoming so popular.

And then recently, my perception changed when I discovered a matcha brand that made me realize I haven’t tasted the right grade matcha all along. Discovering the right ceremonial-grade matcha is like entering another rabbit hole, similar to my journey in specialty coffee.

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The Need for Coffee turns one
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The Need for Coffee turns one

What lead me to start The Need for Coffee was an idea planted in my head by Lameen, a dear friend who has been writing about coffee on From Coffee With Love for more than a decade. I didn’t give it much thought and jumped on it straight away.

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