April 29, 2020 Tea Music Collab Project Let's do a project to create another crazy tea song! I'm thinking this one will be Oolong Themed and will… Read More
April 9, 2020 What water to use for tea brewing? We have a saying in Chinese that water is the mother of tea. It emphasizes the importance of water to… Read More
April 6, 2020 How to store your tea properly You may have noticed that not all the tea you purchased comes with an expiry date. Does tea expire? How… Read More
November 19, 2019 Tea and Health – What affects caffeine in tea? How to lose weight with tea? Tea is often associated with health in North America. So much so that many people begin drinking tea just for… Read More
September 29, 2019 How to Taste Tea Like A Pro Tea tastings, tasting notes, tea flavor wheels... as a tea drinker who has been indulging in the world of tea,… Read More
September 22, 2019 Tea Processing Steps: are the charts helpful or misleading? Once you get into the world of tea, your curiosity naturally grows and the more you dive into it the… Read More
November 28, 2017 Tea and Music Tea and music? I'm a big fan of tea, which is obvious, but I'm also a big fan of music and… Read More
June 28, 2017 Top 5 Tips for Chinese Tea Sourcing Many tea vendors go to China to source their own tea, others get their tea from the importers. No matter… Read More
July 6, 2016 The Ultimate Tea Processing Experience A Game with Water Our tea trip was not a typical sourcing trip. We don't need to go to China… Read More
May 18, 2016 The Perils of Fancy Pu’er This post was inspired by one of the tastings we had in Menghai, Yunnan Province. A friend of ours brought… Read More
May 17, 2016 Sheng Pu’er — The Evolution Of The Process Testing a Hypothesis One thing we were to eager to do during this visit to Yunnan was to experiment with sheng… Read More
May 17, 2016 The Odd Economy Of Pu’er An Interesting Twist of Fate The story of Yunnan Pu’er reminds me of an old Chinese saying, “Thirty years on… Read More
April 18, 2016 Ancient Pu’er Tea Garden – Hekai, Yunnan Province Hekai, located in the Bulang Mountains, is one of the biggest ancient tea gardens planted by humans. Almost one third of… Read More
June 28, 2015 Cool Down With Tea What could be nicer to have on a hot summer day than some delicious ice cream? I say, hot tea!… Read More
June 10, 2015 Zhen’s Tea Chat This post had to get pulled to the front of my blog schedule because of a few little stories I… Read More
February 21, 2015 Organic Certification? Not now. Despite how much we love the concept of organic, we disagree with the over-simplified impression that “organic guarantees safety” which… Read More