Welcome to a blog series listing the tools I use every time I brew gong fu cha. Another small but essential tea tool for an awesome gong fu tea session is the tea cloth. There are two types of cl…

I have a problem with the way people use the word ceremony. A better word is practice. One never master's something unpracticed. Practice is nothing more than the act of doing something each day for a…

We are getting near the end of our essential tools of gong fu cha. I like to keep it simple and when it comes to brewing tea, oftentimes, less is more. The next piece of equipment that I would conside…

The first farmer I bought tea from didn’t trust me. I didn’t know anything. It was a win-win. My long-time friend, who was an old man, suggested it. He said, “You like tea and you have been learning a…

If I go about trying to answer the really tough questions about tea, the endeavor will eventually fall flat, simply because I will lose the ability or drive to come up with these questions. I mean wha…