A Teawright’s Blog
— Let’s explore the art of Tea Craft —
What Burning Green Tea Does
Green Tea is Sensitive to Heating Why is 80°C ideal for green tea? If you've ever steeped a green tea in water hotter than that, you likely tasted why. You see, the tea you buy in stores isn't fully shelf-stable. It's an active food & reacts to its environment....
Tea Tannins Part 1 – A Primer
An introduction to tea tannins. What are they? Where are they found? What do they do? But more importantly, do we need them?
Simple Iced Tea
It’s Hot Outside Summer arrived furiously here in Boston. We’ve had a heat wave for a while now, with its only pause when I was out in Colorado. The heat followed me out West, and returned with me to Boston. Lovely. When the heat is this excessive we look to familiar...
From Our Launch
The Boston Teawrights launched at Mass Innovation Nights’ annual Foodie Event. Since we’re going through a backlog of pictures, we figured you might enjoy checking them out. Starting with our launch night.
Withering Experiment
Today I’ll experiment with leaf withering. It will look nothing like this picture, especially since I don’t have a withering trough. I’m in Boston not India, so I’ll try it on the stove top in my kitchen. We’ll see how this black tea turns out once I’ve crafted it....
Bet You’ve Never Seen This
Thanksgiving :: Bet you’ve never seen this before. Oh, you think you have? So far correct, they’re tea leaves, but you still have never seen them before. Oh, it’s some sort of green tea? Ok cool,...
First Brick Wall Breached
If you’re familiar with “The Last Lecture” and Randy Pausch, you've heard his expression about Brick Walls. Walls are people, processes, bureaucracies and form of obstacle in your way. Pausch states: The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not...
Successful Test Shipment
Harvested last week in the mountains of Taiwan. Opened up last evening in the suburbs of Boston. Ready for processing into Black or Green tea! Our test shipment was a success! The leaves were still firm and...
Time to Find Some Shippers
Importing Fresh Tea Leaves Time to start digging in and figuring out the how-to and costs for importing “bought leaf” into the United States. I've been brushing up on the Incoterms including FOB (Free On Board), and have an idea of air-freight costs and how to get...
Why Tea Is Magical: an Infographic
PS: Does anyone know who created this image? It'd be nice to credit them.
Fresh Tea Leaves – What’s Up?
Looking for Fresh Tea Leaves I received an email this morning from a potential supplier in China. Apparently he couldn't sell me fresh, unprocessed tea leaves because…you know what I’ll just copy/paste here: Sorry, we cannot export fresh tea leaves to Your country....