A Site about Tea.
In past videos I’ve described a 357g cake as a weird awkward amount. It’s quite a bit of tea to drink through, ~50-70 sessions depending on your dose but a cake is also far from a lifetime of tea. Because 357 grams is the traditional cake size it’s the quantity we often end up stuck […]
In 2025, I compared Xiaguan to 1970s Toei a Japanese B-Movie studio, reeking of cigarettes and asphalt. Dayi is more elevated than Xiaguan. Perhaps like the Golden Age Shaw Brothers films of the late 1960s and into the 1970s. Polished, colorful, amazing sets, and often following effective formulas. Similarly for a certain period Dayi had […]
In the subniche of tea drinking and appreciation in the west, the 2020 pandemic coincided with a wave of new tea drinkers. People were working from home and suddenly had a lot of time on their hands. With an overnight step up in interest, tea Discords picked up momentum and a mini-generation of new drinkers […]
I did some experiments on heat retention in 2019, and I’ve wanted to revisit this topic for a while. Similar to that experiment, I kept the experiments simple with a basic thermometer, several vessels, a couple of kettles and redid everything a few times to be sure. All temperatures are in °F. Measurements were taken […]
In the last two decades the western pu’erh scene has grown significantly. We’ve always had a fraction of the teas available being at least one or two steps removed from China or Taiwan, our little niche has been often at the mercy of whichever teas vendors choose to sell. When Denny and I started TeaDB […]
Five things I like & dislike. Taiwan Tea Odyssey Taiwan Tea Odyssey is the most interesting new blog that’s started in a long while and one that works well in conversation with long running blogs like Marshaln. Started in 2023, it details Alex’s excursions in the Taiwanese tea scene as well as his personal exploration […]