Your name: Nicole Fröschle Where are you based: Stuttgart, Germany What do you do: I work at a company that sells and conducts professional development courses. Most of our clients are looking for a new job so I also support them in […]
Summer has arrived to our part of the world and with it the demanding heath. Very hot weather and high humidity scream for something refreshing and that is why in Japan is very common to drink cold tea during this season. Every restaurant that usually serves you houjicha with meals, will give you now a cold […]
On 11th May Anna was invited by Jenny Chih-Chieh Teng from Mellow Sheng to join one of her beautiful tea ceremonies in Barcelona. As they both share a passion for kombucha and fermentation, Anna was asked to brew Goishicha! The ceremony started with an introduction of the teas – and the brewers – and went on […]
Bologna Tea Festival In Tè Festival in Italy was fun and inspiring! 9 people attended our workshop on regional banchas. To our surprise, bancha is lately quite known in Italy, but most of what can be found is summer or autumn harvest. The people that joined were then surprised to taste many different flavours compared to […]
March is the month when winter sets off and tea plants are pruned to be prepared for the incoming spring. The big leaves that came all this way through winter, are the very last leaves of the year. Because very coarse, in some regions are just cut off and used as fertiliser. Nevertheless, in some places […]
In 1874, Japanese authorities invited two Chinese tea experts to teach black tea processing techniques to Japanese farmers. The produced teas were considered a bit of a failure and it was decided that more detailed knowledge was necessary to produce a black tea that would convince the export market. So in 1875, the government sends […]