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Xavier wrote a new post, It tastes like …, on the site Teaconomics 2 weeks, 3 days 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 weeks, 4 days 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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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Steeped in Selah, on the site Steep Stories 2 weeks, 5 days 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 weeks, 6 days 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 4 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month, 1 week 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 1 month, 1 week 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 1 month, 2 weeks 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 1 month, 3 weeks 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 1 month, 4 weeks 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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iheartteas wrote a new post, Chicago Tea Festival 2019, on the site iHeartTeas 2 months ago
First Annual Chicago Tea Festival
Day One:
Located at Holiday Inn Express Merchandise Mart in the River North neighborhood of Chicago, I was thrilled to discover a view of the Chicago River from my hotel […]-
It seems quite a diversified approach to business and insights on tea, not only selling teas. Really interesting to hear from it.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Revisiting Castleton Moonlight, on the site Steep Stories 2 months ago
I think itâs high time I talk about the Castleton estate.
Again.
I say âagainâ because, if youâre no stranger to this blog, youâll know that it is one of my favorite gardens from one of my favorite […]
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You are a man of habit but only the best ones and a Tea-Rex đ
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Xavier wrote a new post, One never knows how loyalty is born, on the site Teaconomics 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Why is Earl Grey/Green Tea/⌠popular and proposed/drank in most places? How do trends begin? Good questions indeed. When I was asked about it, I began doing some research and I found some information on how t […]
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, A Focus on Fellowship, on the site Steep Stories 3 months ago
A week ago, an article made the rounds in the greater tea community sphere. At the time it came out, it rubbed me the wrong way. So much so, I originally meant to pen a rant pointing out where it went wrong, and […]
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Tea is about sharing and the fellowship.
Drinking tea alone isn’t fun.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, My Birthday at a Tea Festival, on the site Steep Stories 3 months, 1 week ago
Over a week ago, I attended Northwest Tea Festival. Â Again.
It also happened to fall on my birthday.
I decided at the end of summer that the best way to ring in my 43rd year on Earth was to make a […]
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I really liked the meme before and after. However last time I attended one, I don’t remember in such a state.
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Perhaps, this is the proof that I might have been infected.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, There Once Were Two Teas from Huiming, on the site Steep Stories 4 months ago
Sometimes, in my search for new teas to try, I get drawn in by mentions of particular producers.
This is Wei Zhong He. I first learned of him through my dealings with Kevin Gascoyne (Camellia Sinensis Tea […]
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You are the Enterprise of tea, finding combos that no one (from my point of view) ever found and managing to present them while managing to make me want to give them a try.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, The Tea Balls of Manipur, on the site Steep Stories 4 months, 1 week ago
Earlier this year, a fellow tea blogger sent me information on an Indian tea growing region Iâd never heard of.
A place filled with old(er) growth, semi-wild assamica forests, which bordered Assam to the E […]
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You answered my question before you knew it, regarding how much tea you should use it.
It is strange that a white tea produced such a dark liquor.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Sheng Puerh-Style Teas from Vietnam, on the site Steep Stories 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Over a year-and-a-half ago, I wrote an article discussing the nature of sheng cha.
It didnât go over well.
I used a Vietnamese sheng puerh-style tea from Son La province as a part of my thesis, and it a […]
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Such names. Too bad there were two genies. I would have imagined something like Ice Genie.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Alternate Tea Etiquette, on the site Steep Stories 5 months ago
Five days ago, a vendor friend posted this article on Facebook:
I didn’t read it, which is usually what not to do, but I’ve seen such tea topical articles before. The direction they were going in was n […]
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The first of the tea club is that there are no rules (unless you ask @TheDevotea :P).
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