Site-Wide Activity
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Bordering on Sheng Puerh, on the site Steep Stories 3 hours, 50 minutes ago
Let’s talk about border sheng.
As long-time readers already know, I’m a bit of an old hat (and advocate) of sheng cha produced outside of Yunnan province, China. I’ve devoted the last decade or so to tryin […]
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Robert Godden wrote a new post, Tea Timing, on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 2 days, 3 hours ago
NOTE: I wrote this for The Devotea’s joint sales site with Baristador coffee. Reproduced here for those who subscribe to this blog.
This past few days have seen the first iteration of the new arrangement for us […]
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Such a dedicated customer service.
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Robert Godden wrote a new post, Steeping With The Enemy, on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 1 week, 4 days ago
Let me tell you about a guy who is, frankly, a bit of a lunatic.
He’s veeeeeerrrrry fussy about the way he brews his beverages. Not just because he likes to control water temperature and water/raw material […]
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A second Devotea?
This is impossible.
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Xavier wrote a new post, Where Eagles Dare, on the site Teaconomics 1 week, 6 days ago
After learning that Japanese beef was graded with a two dimensional system (A, B, C and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5), I had thought I could work on the reason behind the different grades in tea (the most known being in the […]
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Meet Herb, on the site Steep Stories 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Meet Herb.
Herb is a tea pet. What’s a tea pet, you might be asking? Well, it’s a long story, and—honestly—one I haven’t taken much interest in. Until now.
There is no clear origin story about how […]
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Ah. Ostfriesen. I went there and drank tea.
And I like Herb drinking in your cup.
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Robert Godden wrote a new post, Dead Leaves Society, on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 1 month ago
A chance comment describing tea as “dead leaves” caused eyebrows to lift.
It was my friend Geoffrey Norman, sharing a Facebook memory of a paid commission to write about tea, which he described as “that time I […]
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But by its death, it gave birth to a special drink, one with a lot of unique and living flavours.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Time Traveling by Way of Tea Tasting, on the site Steep Stories 1 month ago
A couple of months back, I did an Instagram Live tasting with this chap.
So Han Fan, purveyor of West China Tea.
I’ve “known” So Han for nearly six years. I put that in quotes because . . . we’ve never a […]
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Sounds quite interesting.
And “only on a more “castle dungeon”-y level.” was really a great description.
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Robert Godden wrote a new post, Sharing Tea In The Time of COVID, on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 1 month, 1 week ago
With a tea event on my horizon, it seems like a good time to pause and consider how the COVID-19 pandemic has, and should, modify our tea habits.
Good procedures are good procedures, so we should look to taking […]
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I like the clever looking part.
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Xavier wrote a new post, A collection of blossoms, on the site Teaconomics 1 month, 2 weeks ago
A collection of blossoms in Greek is an anthologia which would later give in English florilegium (from the Latin translation) and anthology. Even if what I will write below doesn’t come from existing works, I f […]
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I agree, what a wonderful phrase. It describes our bunch of writers here on tea Trade, we are all blossoms.
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Some more than others (me).
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Robert Godden wrote a new post, Not All Cover-Ups Are Bad, on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 1 month, 2 weeks ago
To me, America is like a great white shark. It’s sleek, it’s big, it’s an inevitable part of life, it’s at or near the top of the food chain, and, particularly in certain parts of LA, there’s an awful lot of very […]
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Power to the tea shops but that doesn’t mean one can’t think before acting.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Ivan Chai from Tver Oblast, on the site Steep Stories 1 month, 2 weeks ago
One of the nerdy pursuits we in the tea community like to pay attention to is origin. Single origin teas are the bread-‘n-butter of tea geekery. However, outside of good ol’ Camellia sinensis, herbal infusions are […]
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Question from someone with no experience: does strong fermentation mean darker brew?
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, "And Who Is My Neighbor?", on the site Steep Stories 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Trigger Warning: The following article discusses religion and race. So, consider yourself doubly warned.
In my Bible readings, there is one aspect I keep coming back to. In the Gospels, Jesus conveyed his […]
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Good luck on your quest.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, The "Aera" of Nepalese White Tea, on the site Steep Stories 2 months ago
One of the (few) benefits of this whole quarantine/lockdown thing we’ve endured so far in 2020 has been the chance to get to know new people. Granted, not in real outdoor life, but in an online capacity. During […]
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And to you for sharing your experiences with us.
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Xavier wrote a new post, Are they all doing the same?, on the site Teaconomics 2 months, 1 week ago
Innovation is a big word, one that is used all around us. All companies need to innovate to thrive or we all need to use the latest and most innovative concept/app/product…
It is a kind of buzz word and is all o […]-
I agree. More companies talk about it than do it, though.
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That’s also part of my questioning.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, An Ivan Chai Diary, on the site Steep Stories 2 months, 2 weeks ago
At the beginning of May (of 2020), I received a box from Moychay . . .
A blogger friend saw the write-up I did on Ivan Chai a couple of months prior, and recommended I get in contact with this Russian-based […]
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And how does it compare to tea?
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AJ wrote a new post, Tea in Quarantine, on the site Tea Stacks 2 months, 2 weeks ago
In 1939 the British government expected airstrikes from Germany. So they devised a slogan to keep up civilian moral: Keep Calm and Carry On. There were signs and posters designed for the slogan to be hung in […]
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An old tea blender? How does it work?
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Oops, I just realized I posted a dead link. Here it is in action:
With no tea, but you get the gist. Once it’s properly cleaned up maybe I’ll do another video.
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Yes please do so.
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Much belated, but here’s part two:
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Thanks.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Tea in Star Wars, on the site Steep Stories 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Episode 1
The Rise of the SteamThe kettle boils! A tea geek, locked in his room during quarantine, casually watched an episode of some Star Wars cartoon, and—lo!—a tea pot appeared into view. At first, he […]
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You are opening new roads for me. Tea and Star Wars 😀
I wrote something about tea in sci-fi but I never looked into Star Wars, how wrong of me.
Thanks.
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Dang it, how did I miss that blog?! I’ll have to look.
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Because there was no Star Wars in it?
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Nope, I haven’t written a book, yet.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Biography of a Bing Cha, on the site Steep Stories 3 months ago
I’ve often expressed my ambivalence to the tea category that is puerh. Sometimes, though, a story about it demands my attention. And most of those times, the story isn’t even mine. Even stranger still? A few of […]
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You are turning into a tea detective 😀
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Heralding the Rose of Wuyi, on the site Steep Stories 3 months, 2 weeks ago
This is Dan.
Dan’s a pretty solid dude, and a darn good friend. Dan is also married to my matcha dealer.
Dan’s a lucky sonuva- . . .
I’m getting off-topic already, aren’t I?
Let’s start ove […]
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A Herald of tea. I wish him all the best for this adventure.
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Xavier wrote a new post, Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?, on the site Teaconomics 3 months, 2 weeks ago
This post owns much to the work done by Dr Pim de Zwart from the Wageningen University and Research that published in 2016 a paper in The Journal of Economic History on globalization in the early modern era: new […]
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Nice idea to examine the data. It makes sense
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