Online Tea Communities

Just wanted to share a bunch of tea communities with you that I’ve been following over the years: Badger and Blade Forums http://badgerandblade.com/vb/forumdisplay.php?f=90 Leafbox Tea Forums: http://leafboxtea.com/forum Tea Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/tea/ Tea-Mail http://groups.yahoo.com/group/teamail/ Rec.Food.Drink.Tea: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.food.drink.tea/topics Tea Chat: http://www.teachat.com/ Twitter: Using the hash-tag #tea http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23tea Steepster: http://steepster.com/discuss

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Posted on December 12th, 2010 Written by Tony Gebely

Hacker’s Guide to Tea

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Korean Hwang Cha (Yellow Tea) TL;DR: All tea comes from the camellia sinensis plant. If you are drinking something that did not come from this plant (chamomile, mint, tulsi, rooibos, etc. it is not tea). White, Green, Oolong, Yellow, Black and Pu-erh teas all come from the varieties and cultivars of the camellia sinensis plant [...]

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Posted on November 22nd, 2010 Written by Tony Gebely

Lead Testing a Cheap Yixing Pot

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It is believed that some tea-ware coming from China may contain lead. Especially pots supposedly made of Zisha clay from Yixing, China. A few years back there was a thread in TeaChat about this, no one found any lead when using home test kits. I tried it with the cheapest “yixing” pot I could find [...]

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Posted on November 20th, 2010 Written by Tony Gebely

Samovar’s Rebirth Party

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Often times in life, an unfortunate situation will give rise to something positive.  Thursday night at Samovar was no exception. Last June, a car crashed into the side of Samovar’s Sanchez Street location.  No one was seriously hurt, though it was obviously a frightening day for everyone involved.  The “re-birth” of Samovar’s original location was [...]

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Posted on November 11th, 2010 Written by nickbastone

Tea Drinker Profile: Nick Bastone

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Name: Nick Bastone Sex: Male Age: 22 Occupation: 4th Year History/Rhetoric Major at UC Berkeley Location: Berkeley, CA Do you drink tea at work?: Having some right now… Interests: Good tea, good conversation, surfing, golfing, writing. Favorite Tea Variety: Oolongs Favorite tea: Tieguanyin Light Roast, though I just had some Zealong Pure that was pretty [...]

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Posted on November 10th, 2010 Written by nickbastone

Tea Drinker Profile: Corey Cooper

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Name: Corey Cooper Sex: Male Age: 29 Occupation: Education Consulting, tea sourcing, tea blogging Location: Beijing, China Do you drink tea at work?: I like to drink green tea or black tea at work, as proper gong fu brewing is not as essential to the experience.    Xi Hu Long Jing (西湖龙井) green tea as [...]

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Posted on November 9th, 2010 Written by Tony Gebely

Drinking green tea doesn’t lower breast cancer risk [via: Consumer Reports]

clipped from blogs.consumerreports.org In the new study, researchers looked at data on nearly 54,000 middle-aged women in Japan. Over five years, the participants completed two detailed questionnaires asking about their health, lifestyle, and diet, including their consumption of green tea. The researchers then tracked who developed breast cancer. On average, the study followed the women [...]

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Posted on November 4th, 2010 Written by Tony Gebely

Ineeka’s Green Tea Beer

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I had a chance to try Ineeka’s Green Tea Beer at Lush in Chicago last week. I’ve been wanting to try this for a while now. Ineeka is a tea company based in Chicago known for their inventive take on the tea bag. Not much can be found regarding the type of green tea known, [...]

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Posted on November 2nd, 2010 Written by Tony Gebely

Tea Drinker Profile: Torsten Voigt

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Name: Torsten Voigt Sex: Male Age: 26 Occupation: Self-employed with my Teashop TEE-ECK Location: Germany/ Thuringia / Eisenach Do you drink tea at work?: Yes, only tea! China Lung Ching, Bai Mu Dan, Assam in the evening…Porcelain cups and bowls! Interests: Tea, Whisky, Taste, Friends and cooking Favorite Tea Variety: White and Pu Erh! Very [...]

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Posted on November 1st, 2010 Written by Tony Gebely

New Design

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World of Tea has been up and running for just about two years now so I thought a redesign was well overdue. Along with this update, I’ve opened the blog up to guest writers. If you have a story you’d like to submit to World of Tea, there is a “Submit a Story” link in [...]

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Posted on October 31st, 2010 Written by Tony Gebely

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