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Chaozhou Dancong Oolong: How It’s Made, A Visual Guide

In this video we show you, not tell you, the steps involved when making Dancong Oolong maocha. This is the initial processing for Dancong, after...

July 22, 2021

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Charcoal Roasting Dancong in Chaozhou

If you've ever why people bother mentioning that a tea is charcoal roasted, it's because this process not only adds cost and time, but also...

September 11, 2020

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Weeding Tea Gardens: 3 Methods of Removal, Pros & Cons

As with any tea-related process, the different methods for weeding a tea field offer a trade-off between cost and quality, or more specifically cost and...

April 29, 2020

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Drinking Tea All Day: How to Fit the Most Tea Into a Single Day

Yes, drinking tea all day sounds like a fantastic idea. And for the most part, it is, but you've got to remember that caffeine is...

March 29, 2020

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How to Store White Tea (or Just About Any Other Type of Tea)

As the popularity of white tea increases, so do the number of questions about proper storage for this minimally processed tea. Well, we’re going to...

January 19, 2020

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How Its Made: Firing Tea Jars in Jianshui

While in Jianshui this past summer, we decided to shoot some footage of a custom batch of tea (and water) jars we ordered being loaded...

September 10, 2019

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How to Choose a Puer Tea

This is one of the most common questions we field, especially from those who are new to puer. It can be a fairly packed question...

January 5, 2018

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How Many Times to Brew Puer – A Not-So-Definitive Guide

One of Puer tea’s most attractive features is arguably its brewing endurance. Taste, complexity, variety and ability to age/mature are also main draws, but they’re...

October 22, 2015

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