Tag: tea
a sub-selection of blog posts
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Looseleaf Tea: A Quick-Start Guide
I promise I have interests other than tea (an aside: tea-drinking goes rather well with reading and writing, I must say), but as a follow-up to my previous ramble, here’s a quick-start guide to looseleaf tea. This is for anyone who wants to try steeping looseleaf but doesn’t know where to start or lacks the…
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Let’s Talk About Tea
Special interest ramble time! All true tea originates from a plant species called Camellia sinensis. The leaves are processed in different ways to produce green, black, white, oolong, and pu-erh. Fully oxidizing the leaves produces black tea, while green is heated promptly after harvest to prevent oxidation. Oolongs cover a range of partial oxidations, with…