2 Much Neglected Steps In Good Tea Preparation

February 27, 2011

1. Water There’s one thing that seems to be very often left out when people are talking about tea: water. Good water is crucial to good tea. If you use crappy water with the finest tea in the world, you’re going to get a marginal cup of tea. Water is *highly* important to good tea. [...]

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Bulk Green Tea

February 24, 2011

What is bulk green tea? Bulk green tea is just what it sounds like: green tea sold in bulk. It’s also almost always loose leaf green tea as oppose to bagged tea. How much tea makes bulk tea? There really isn’t an amount at which tea becomes bulk; what I find is that usually people [...]

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How Drinking Green Tea is Like Smoking

February 19, 2011

The Japanese green tea ceremony. I’ve been watching videos of people performing the tea ceremony on youtube lately. Someday I’m going to get the equipment to do it. But to me, the tea ceremony is a really neat cultural thing. Even just sharing tea with a guest. There’s something that highly appeals to me about [...]

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If You Want to Learn a Few Things About Green Tea…

February 12, 2011

In my youtube browsings I came across this video. Be fore-warned: it’s uber-dumb. Like really corny. But the reason I’m posting it is because it’s got some good content and information about green tea. I certainly learned a fair amount from it. So if you can get past the utter corny-ness of it, I think [...]

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2 Questions You Need To Ask Yourself Before Buying Green Tea

February 8, 2011

Where To Buy Green Tea? This is a question I still ask myself. Over the years I’ve been slowly learning the answer to the question, but I’m still learning to this day. So I’ll share with you some of my experience, and I’ll be updating this page as I learn more. In order to answer [...]

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Why You Need to Read This Blog

February 6, 2011

The Pathetic Amount of Commercialized Green Tea Articles on the Web So I’ve been searching the web the past few weeks for information on Green Tea, and I’ve been somewhat distressed at the amount of commercialized great tea articles out there. It seems there’s quite a fad in the whole idea of green tea and [...]

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Making Oolong Tea

February 5, 2011

I learned how to make Oolong tea from a Taiwanese friend of mine. One of the things I love about making Chinese tea is the ceremony of it. It’s not really formal, but there are a lot of little things that you do in order to make the tea properly. Like heating the teacups and [...]

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Wine Taster to Tea Taster

February 1, 2011

In my searchings of the interwebs today I stumbled across this video, which I watched. Thought you might enjoy it. He just talks about tea, a bit of it’s modern history… he’s written some books on tea, he says in the video. He’s also written some book on California wine, which became a bestseller, or [...]

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Johnny Depp and Music… What Do They Have In Common?

January 31, 2011

So, I’ve been searching the web lately, and I’ve discovered it’s hard to come across any sort of good information on green tea. It’s all these cheap articles that people hire cheap writers to write so they can make money off ads. *cough*. Which is kind of what I originally set out to do. But [...]

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Green Tea Ceremony

January 23, 2011
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