At the beginning of the Lunar New Year celebrations I wish all of you luck, joy and abundance – particularly with regard to good tea! Possibly Related Posts: Pure Pu’er ATB Blog Carnival: AdagioTeas’ “Roots Campaign.” How I generally brew shu pu’er Da Hong Pao among the mists New storage for pu’er
It’s not often that I get the opportunity to work with a tea with very little historical precedent, a tea in the infancy of its introduction to the worldwide tea community. But the orthodox production purple tea from Royal Tea of Kenya is so new and so unusual that there’s little guidance and no standards, [...]
This past weekend I took the opportunity to try some tea that I purchased from Michael Coffey of Tea Geek quite some time ago. This tea is, in essence, very large leaves from the bushes of a pu’er varietal simply dried and tied into bundles. As described on the Tea Geek blog: [This] limited availability [...]
For people within striking distance of Seattle, there are still a few more days to to see “Chado: The Way of Tea,” an exhibit of work by Miya Ando at ArtXchange Gallery in Pioneer Square. Sculptor Ando is descended from Japanese sword makers and has embraced her heritage of fine metal-working, along with a large [...]
Adagio Teas’ Roots Campaign, which has been operating for the past two years, was created for the purpose of connecting tea drinkers more directly with information about the producers of the teas they drink. More than a dozen tea growers have been featured so far, providing Adagio’s customers additional insight into the people who comprise [...]
My article on this year’s World Tea Expo has been published on the English Tea Store Blog. Here’s an excerpt: One highlight among the vast sea of exhibitors on the Expo floor was the Taiwan Pavilion, where Thomas Shu and his wife Josephine Pan [of ABC Tea] hosted tastings and demonstrations. They were aided by [...]
The following three weekends in the greater Seattle area hold opportunities to experience the whimsy of Alice in Wonderland-themed theater in a park setting. Read my article on Examiner.com for details about Theater Simple‘s “WONDERLAND: Alice Adventures”. The image above is related only thematically to the upcoming theatrical performances in parks. It is a still [...]
My contribution to this month’s ATB-sponsored Tea Blog Carnival is on the topic of my general methods for brewing shu (cooked) pu’er. The steps and the accoutrements: I almost always use Crystal Geyser spring water for shu pu’er (and other teas). It’s affordable and works just as well or better with tea as some of [...]
Sometimes teas seem to come to me thematically, with several examples from a certain category from different sources all ariving in sequence. One example of this is that over the past couple of months I have had at least six different batches of Da Hong Pao, all from different vendors, which is something of an [...]
Last weekend I had the great fortune to find and acquire this perfect and beautiful ceramic pu’er storage vessel. Of course I have no idea whether the talented clay artist who made this piece intended for it to be used to store tea, but it is undeniable that he or she modeled it after traditional [...]
