Steep Stories

Month: November 2017

  • White Teas from Vietnam

    In the fall of 2015, I found myself reading a tea blog (instead of writing one). Fellow tea geek Amanda Freeman used to keep one of the more prolific tea blogs in the community, and—at times—I suffered from a bit of professional jealousy. Often, she’d run into weird and strange teas before I did. And…

  • Lazy Gongfool Tastings: Nan Nuo Shan Sheng Puerh

    Hiya. So, I decided to try something new. I have quite a few new teas to get through that don’t particularly fall within the parameters of my regular blog. That being, they don’t have much of a story to tell. Okay, they probably *HAVE* a story, but it was not one I could spin. I…

  • A Tea Leaf on the Wind

    In the hierarchy of tea businesses, monthly tea subscription services are like man-buns. Unless you have a really good reason for starting one—or your name is Toshiro Mifune—it is usually best not to. Since 2014, there has been a veritable surge of tea start-ups, and the route they’ve all chosen? You guessed it, the monthly…

  • A Mabian, Sichuan Tea Flight

    This may come as a surprise (to no one), but I’m a bit of a lurker in the tea community. Various social media groups exist celebrating our beloved beverage and the many facets therein. On Facebook alone, I keep a keen eye out for interesting posts by some members of these groups. Particularly if someone…

  • A Series of Single Origin Tea Sonnets

    In the Spring of 2017, I met this eccentric chap.