Tea Blog
About tea, Thailand tea, and TEA SIDE
"Brewing Thai"
A spontaneous interview about the specifics of growing and producing Thai tea, about old tea trees, Taiwanese oolong hybrids, and the famous Pu-erhs of Hong Tai Chang.
How to brew tea properly. Brewing methods in different countries.
If you want a tasty drink, everything that makes tea tasty will be right. If you want to hold a beautiful and heartfelt tea session, everything that you personally need for this will be right — from white socks to belly dancing with a tambourine. However, there are several generally accepted formats of tea ceremony.
What is white tea
Let’s talk about white tea. About what is white tea made of and its technology features. Geography, botany and history of white tea. The varieties of white tea, and what tea buds are, and how they differ from leaves. White tea vs green tea. Benefits and Caffeine. Storing white tea. How to brew tips.
One shouldn't be afraid to over-steep good tea
A couple of years ago, a fellow tea connoisseur shared such a piece of “Chinese” wisdom with me: “If you want to sell tea, make a soft brew; if you want to buy tea, make a strong brew; if you want to treat your friends to a cup of tea, make a regular brew.”
Wet and Dry. Sheng Pu-erhs of Different Storage
About how storage conditions influence the development of sheng (raw) pu-erh tea taste. About traditional Hong Kong storage. About natural storage in different climates. And about what formation of taste preferences depends on.
Six Properties of Shu Pu-erh to Understand It Better
According to some Chinese specialists’ opinions, one has to consider the following 6 properties of tea to understand shu pu-erh: depth of taste, smoothness, moisture, sweetness (sugariness), purity of taste, and quality of flavor.
How to make oolong tea gong fu brewing style
Oolong tea is well suited for the tea ceremony. It has a bright organoleptic (taste and aromatic) properties, which change in the process of brewing, from steeping to steeping.
Round Tea Hong Tai Chang (鸿泰昌圆茶)
“Hong Tai Chang” cakes are ones of the exclusive representatives of the pu-erh tradition - a bright flourish in the history of pu-erh tea.
Сaffeine in tea. 8 signs and ways to identify it.
Well, what does the content of caffeine found in tea depend on? Is there caffeine in green tea?
Interview with James Schergen (teaDB)
James happened to visit Thailand on Songkran. But instead of pouring water on each other's back we had interesting tea-talks pouring water into a teapot.
