Meeting with small farmers from Fikkal area. “This is Mr. Saran Rai, head teamaker of Arya Tara Garden, meet him.” Smiles, handshakes, and surprisingly right away, a group selfie. I’m very happy, this gentleman makes some of the best teas in all of Nepal. Teas we’ve been buying from him for about 15 years. There […]
We are often asked about the green Korean teas we offer. What is the difference between them? What makes them special compared with other green teas? Why are they so expensive? In this review, we will introduce these teas to you and answer the questions we get the most frequently. What is Nokcha and when it is […]
It’s been some time since we did our last test of water. Travelling around the Czech lands we collected various water samples and went on to test them straight away. It’s been proven many times before, and we have confirmed it again: the water you put in your tea really matters. Water Sources We tested […]
I’ve been growing tea shrubs for years, but I haven’t been immensely successful. The shrubs are dwarfs with yellowish leaves all year long. They are in fact a second generation – the first died on me. That’s why I rarely thought of using their leaves for tea. Now my five shrubs were infested by some […]
Join us at tea event in nature! Weekend 10th – 11th of September we will prepare teas in a beautiful scenery of Prachovské skály in a “Tea Cabin”. All tea lovers are welcome! In old China, rock formations and “cities” were seen as seats of gods. Entering into such a location is considered sacred. On tops of mountains […]
Next week, on 28th of April, there will be another “tea cupping” (tea degustation) in Bitcoin Coffee (Paralelní Polis in Prague´s Holešovice district). We meet there every month to taste various teas together. We try to get a deeper knowledge about them, to learn how to dinstinguish flavors and aromas of this amazing beverage, how to recognize nuances and how to evaluate tea in a right way.
As an invitation to Thursday´s (28th January) Tea Cupping in Bitcoin Coffee in Prague, we post here a list of last year´s most successful teas. Some of them, we will taste for last time, since they are already sold. So, let´s join us and our tea memmories. 1. Darjeeling Puttabong First Flush DJ 50/15 2. Darjeeling Goomtee Autumnal […]
As part of each tea tasting we do in Paralelní Polis in Holešovice, we will post bonus information to our blog.
Now: Publishing Part 2 about Japanese tea. This time about tea cultivation and processing.
As a special feature of the tea tastings we are doing in Paralelní Polis in Prague, we are planning to publish our notes concerning the events: the information given at the tasting itself, to recap, and information that we didn’t have time for, to give you the big picture.
With a new school year we start again with our cycle of tea cupping in Paralelní Polis. In an industrial beauty of Bitcoin Coffee, located in Holešovice, we will regularly meet every month over cups of delicious tea.
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