Site-Wide Activity
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Caffeine and Crassicolumna, on the site Steep Stories 3 days, 20 hours ago
In late 2018, various media outlets were all a-buzz about a new (old) discovery.
An as-of-yet uncategorized decaffeinated tea plant in Fujian province, China. Some of the articles exaggerated the claim; […]
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Robert Godden wrote a new post, Memories Of A Childhood, on the site Beasts Of Brewdom 1 week, 4 days ago
I remember a scene from my childhood as though it were yesterday. I must have been 8 years old, and it was time to catch the train back to school for the term. With my straw boater at a rakish angle and my maroon […]
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The little grey cells working with order and method đ
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Exactly!
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AJ wrote a new post, Book: Tea. T, Eden, on the site Tea Stacks 2 weeks, 1 day ago
I picked this up from the public library. Unfortunately the last person to have it decided to write in it with a black felt pen of all things. And I know it was recent because in the margins where they decided to […]
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Did you try comparing the different books you read on the tea topic?
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Unfortunately, I couldn’t compare them face to face as I checked them out from different libraries… I did go over my notes, photos and memories of Tea Growing, though. I’ll have to go out and check both of them out some time to give a proper review.
Maybe I’ll wait until I come across a few more books on the subject.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, The Legend of Ivan Chai, on the site Steep Stories 2 weeks, 5 days ago
A couple of years ago, I tried a unique herbal “tea” from Latvia.
It was called “Rosebay Willowherb”. The sample was sent to me by a now-defunct company, and what intrigued me most was the processing method. […]
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Ivan? Like the Tsar?
Did you try digging in that direction?-
Nah, I don’t think it had anything to do with a czar.
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Xavier wrote a new post, Teaser…, on the site Teaconomics 1 month ago
You might remember (Or not, I wonât be offended) that I wrote things about tea in the French colonies. Just in case, here are the links:
I had completely forgotten this topic and while looking at online a […]
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Weird old article hunts like this is what I live for.
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Thanks. I hope the next one will be more interesting.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, "I Don't Want the Game to End.", on the site Steep Stories 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Like many with nerdlinger tendencies, I was camped in front of my computer to catch this:
The first episode of Star Trek: Picard.
It was roughly 10PM on a Thursday, and I resisted for all of ten seconds […]
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And the show will go on.
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Robert Godden wrote a new post, From Thailand With Love, on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 2 months ago
Last week, there was a day where I didn’t have a good day. Lady Devotea did not have a good day either.
In fact, it was early on in a succession of challenging days.
Now I don’t want you to think it was […]
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An unbiased? They found the right person.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Virginia's First Tea Farm, on the site Steep Stories 2 months, 1 week ago
When you’re a tea nerd like me, sometimes the best way to find new discoveries is just to camp out on social media and . . . lurk. Facebook is the perfect place for this totally-not-creepy behavior because of the […]
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So you just sit back and enjoy your findings done while surfing the Web (this is a more positive beginning :P).
It seems tea production is growing in the USA. I never tried an American tea. Perhaps one day I will.
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AJ wrote a new post, Book: Chinese Tea Culture, on the site Tea Stacks 2 months, 2 weeks ago
I found this one poking around a used bookstore (in about… 2017? 2016? I’m behind). It’s a slim, unassuming volume, and I picked it up with a few others after flipping through it. I was struck by the Table […]
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Xavier wrote a new post, It tastes like …, on the site Teaconomics 2 months, 4 weeks ago
How does tea taste? Why do two people drinking the same tea experiment two different things? And obviously which one of them is right? The answer is much more complex than we could think at first, which means that […]
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Robert Godden wrote a new post, Iron Willed, on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 2 months, 4 weeks ago
The other day I got asked a simple question about tea, requiring a yes/no answer. And it was this: “I’m anaemic, should I switch to herbal tea?”
This was on Quora, where I’ve previously had a great deal of […]
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And it all depends on your metabolism.
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I live to serve!
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Steeped in Selah, on the site Steep Stories 3 months ago
2019 was a very weird year for tea.
Or rather, a very weird year for how tea was covered in the press. And by “press”, I mean, mainstream media, not the usual tea or beverage-centric haunts that won’t hire […]
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A pause between two teas?
The important thing is to find your way and if tea fits in so the better.
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AJ wrote a new post, Book: Tea Art of China, on the site Tea Stacks 3 months, 1 week ago
This was a book I received back at 2017’s Vancouver Tea Festival. The author had a booth at the event, and I also attended her talk on the different tea-growing regions of China.
I never really spoke to her […]
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Apart from the last chapter, what are the differences with other “similar” tea guides or tea culture guides?
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This one definitely doesn’t lay the information out in organized “bite sizes”. It doesn’t flow like a classic guide–in the way that most guides are sort of designed to be easily referencable.
It more flows like a story, focusing on the author’s favourite topics and areas of expertise.
It’s definitely a bit limited compared to traditional “guides”, and you sort of have to dig to find the interesting bits of unique information that aren’t just repeated from other works.
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Robert Godden wrote a new post, It Was Inevitable, I Suppose, on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 3 months, 1 week ago
In Star Wars, (the first one made that was really the fourth one, as opposed to the first one, which they made fourth) there’s bit when Darth Vader casually drops in the saucy fact that he is, in fact, Luke […]
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So you are Santa Devotea?
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Only in a naughty and nice judgemental sort of way
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Santa Devotea and Black Peter in one đ
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Good news that you have your loved ones so well trained. Seasons’s Greetings to you all
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Sipping Mississippi, on the site Steep Stories 3 months, 1 week ago
I waited way too long to tell this story. So long, in fact, others have already told it. Because of that, I have to approach this from another angleâa sipping angle.
The Great Mississippi Tea Company f […]
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You are not privy but you have you ways with new teas.
It sounds quite interesting.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Autumnal Assam Experiments, on the site Steep Stories 3 months, 2 weeks ago
In January of 2019, I wrote about this garden.
Latumoni.
It was a 7-acre garden that bore the name of the small Assamese village it hugged against. Throughout 2018, their name was everywhere. Mainly […]
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It seems quite an unusual production.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Vietnamese Oolongs Made from Wild Assamica, on the site Steep Stories 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Vietnam has an unfortunate reputation in tea circles.
Not entirely undeserved. Like countries such as Thailand, one of the ways theyâve tried to establish a tea growing/producing identity is by emulating t […]
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Sun Bear and Moon Bear? As long as they are not ghost ones, I can drink them.
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Xavier wrote a new post, The only one stuck is the last one, on the site Teaconomics 4 months ago
According to the Times of India in its edition of October 17th of 2019, the Tea Board of India wanted to meet the producers of Darjeeling teas to âpropose 100% mandatory sales [âŚ] via auctionâ and more impor […]
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, The Two Faces of Issaku, on the site Steep Stories 4 months ago
At the Portland Tea Festival in July (of this year, the time of this writing), Oolong Owl dragged me to a Japanese tea vendor booth. This was markedly weird for two reasons: one, the Owl rarely draggedâmore l […]
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I wonder what the gold really brings to this tea.
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Nothin’. Just fanciness.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Entheogenesis in Chicago, on the site Steep Stories 4 months, 1 week ago
At the end of October, I did something completely out of character. I traveled to a city Iâd never visited . . . for a tea festival. Stranger still? I flew out for said unknown (to me) city on Halloween. Nothing a […]
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Old? No. Experienced and still on a journey to and with more tea.
The Tea-Rex is really hilarious and a great idea.
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“equaled to two steeps of a lightly brewed var. sinensis Bai Mu Dan white tea. In other words, extremely low”
Now, this is a scale I didn’t know existed.