So a few days ago I talked about how I was a little shocked by how bad a tea I know well has turned out because my water changed. I moved a few hours away to another city, but the local water is still quite heavy on minerals – same appearance of heavy sediments when […]| A Tea Addict's Journal
I’m currently on the road. The place where I’m at boasts that their tap water is great. Ok, lovely. I can taste the minerals in the water. It’s heavy. Boiling it in the kettle at the hotel, the water leaves a lot of minerals after even one boil. When I brew a lighter oolong with […]| A Tea Addict's Journal
A bit of a history lesson from an old tea drinker here. Back when I first started drinking tea in earnest, around 1998 or so, I mostly hung out with older tea people here in Hong Kong at the Best Tea House. The crowd was mostly an older generation who grew up drinking dim sum […]| A Tea Addict's Journal
Just about a dozen years ago I wrote a post about the dangers of green tea puerh. In short, young puerh that has been processed at too high a temperature that drinks well immediately but will age p…| A Tea Addict's Journal
Skip the coffee shop and make this cozy, spiced Horchata Chai Latte at home! This easy iced drink combines creamy chai with sweet, cinnamon-forward horchata syrup for the perfect pick-me-up.| Kat's Kitchen
This is the 19th year this blog has been in existence, which, frankly, is a long time, even if the past few years it’s more of a ghoul and less of an active blog. The reason I still pay for hosting to keep all this up is because, every so often, people would tell me […]| A Tea Addict's Journal
Yes, I’m still alive. Not sure how many of you will see this though. Today I went to a tea producer’s house to chat with him here in Taiwan. He showed me a bunch of teas he made while we talked about the state of the industry, etc. Aside from drinking some pretty interesting teas, […]| A Tea Addict's Journal
A couple years ago I posted about an outing with a friend to go to the local Dayi store to drink new 7542s (I think I deleted the image by accident). The tl;dr is that they’re very average and way too expensive. Now, two and half years later, we have this: This is a screencap […]| A Tea Addict's Journal
I just spent a month in Taiwan doing research and other things. It was spent almost entirely in Taipei, so there wasn’t much time to go to the tea farms or anything. I did do some tea shopping, revisiting old haunts and finding new ones. A shop ran by someone who’s been there since he […]| A Tea Addict's Journal
So…. this is how I pack my teapots for moving. You buy those butcher paper – enough to wrap them all. Then, just simply wrap the pot with the paper – usually trying to get a sheet between the lid and the body, so it’s at least cushioned if not snug. Although, take care not […]| A Tea Addict's Journal
Curl up on a chilly day and read all about the types of tea carried by our exclusive Farm Boy Private Label with this handy guide!| Farm Boy
A quick and easy recipe for making the best vegan scones. With just a few basic dairy-free and eggless ingredients, you'll have a batch of warm and fluffy scones ready to eat in about 20 minutes!| The Carrot Underground🥕
Making pine needle tea is one of the best and easiest ways to use your foraged conifer needles for medicinal purposes, and it's delicious!| Grow Forage Cook Ferment
We put together this guide to the best TEAS prep courses to help you figure out which one is right for you in 2024 .| Testing.org
