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 […]
Tea Tasting
There is Nokcha and Nokcha. Comparison of two Korean green teas – Gamnong and Haenam
It’s all about water
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 […]
The day I first brewed my own tea
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 […]
Tea in nature, 10th to 11th of September
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 […]
Tea Cupping ála Matcha
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.
Tea Cupping – 2015 greatest hits
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 […]
Degustation Notes – Japanese Teas, Part 2
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.
Degustation Notes – Japanese Teas, Part 1
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.
Tea Cupping at Paralelní Polis
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.
A Tea Lesson by Master Fang Lao Shi
The Taiwan trip was full of beautiful encounters with exceptional people. One of them was tea master Fang Lao Shi whom we met in a beautiful modern tearoom in the Museum of Modern Art in Taichung. Discovering Taichung With its 2.7 million of people, Taichung/Taizhong is a vibrant industrial megapolis and the third largest […]