Tea, Teaware, & Gatherings since 2009
Crafted by Masters.
Savored by you.
Brewing a community with thoughtfully selected teas and welcoming the knowledgeable and curious alike. Enjoy the moment, learn along the way.
Social, Relaxed, Evolving
Tea begins with a leaf and ends with warm feelings and a happy mood. What happens in between is not as important as you may think. Sit back, let the tea blossom within you and pass those good vibes into the people sipping around you.
Shop
Tea
Korean balhyocha and Anhua heicha, and the pots and cups to do them justice.
What we do
With the support of our community of locally owned shops, we bring you our tea. You’ll find it on the shelves of the neighborhood shops that carry it, and a few select limited teas are available to buy right here.
We also offer ways to go deeper. Our Tastings set teas side by side, one after the other, so you can taste the differences for yourself. Our Deep Dives explore what teas can do. And our guided learning takes you in careful steps to the next level, again and again. See our upcoming events to find one that suits you.
Or simply join us for conversation in the park. Tea in the Park is good tea and pleasant people, a lovely time every time. Check our upcoming events for the next gathering.
We focus on teas from certain locations
Anhua county, Hunan China
Anhua is thought to be the birthplace of Dark Tea (Hēi chá, 黑茶). Whether or not it is, the tea is unique in many ways. Even though it’s still quite unknown in the USA, it has been the focus of tea health studies for years. It’s still quite rare and little is understood about it by most North Americans. Compressed into bricks, baskets, and pillars, heicha ages really well into a warmer and an even more mellow tea. Warming, aromatic, and easy to steep, Anhua Heicha is a great tea for both the tea table and in a mug on your desk.
For many, falling in love with this tea was sudden and certain. Finding quality Anhua Dark teas in the USA tea market is quite hard. We provide top quality teas I have personally selected and are a staple to my tea diet as I’m sure it could be to yours.
Korea
Korean tea is exceedingly rare and special. Throughout the tea world, it is very common for tea bushes to be grown via clippings or graft. However, in Korea, tea is grown directly from seed allowing the plants to access the terroir, draw more minerals into the tea, and create flavors with incredible depth and complexity. When you steep our Korean teas, you will taste and feel tea grown from the earth as nature intended.
Most people, even people from Korea, do not realize that there are many high quality, flavorful teas grown and produced in Korea. Our passion is helping tea drinkers discover a whole new world of tea.
Where to find our tea
- In collaboration with our community of locally owned shops, we bring you our tea.
- Who sells our tea
- Buy select limited teas right here
- What we can offer you
- Tastings, side by side, one after the other
- Deep Dives, what can teas do?
- Guided Learning, careful steps to bring you to the next level, again and again.
- Upcoming events
- Join us for conversations in the Park
- Tea in the Park, good tea, pleasant people… a lovely time every time
- Upcoming events
Our services
We have bookable events to help the curious gain clarity. From experiences to hands on learning, we’ll help you figure out what you’re looking for.
Classes
01
Tastings
- Side by side, one after the other. We compare teas. This is a good way to open your mind to the countless teas out there. It helps you gain an understanding of how tea is processed. And along the way, you will most definitely find the tea you didn’t even know you were looking for.
- Upcoming events
02
Deep Dives
- The same type of tea can be so different from processor to processor, year to year, season to season both on purpose and uncontrollably. What can 1 tea do? Can I tweak the tea so I like it better? Does my water really matter? We’ll explore these and many other topics… but in their own event. We’ll answer these questions by steeping the same tea in different ways, different teas the same way, and no tea no way… jk. Experimentation is the ultimate way to learn tea, let’s DIVE!
- Upcoming events
03
Guided Learning
- The ins and outs of how to tea-it-up can seem very intimidating. You may see me and others make it look too complicated yet we do it with such ease.
- Upcoming events
Gatherings
- Join us for conversations in the Park
- Tea in the Park, good tea, pleasant people… a lovely time every time
- Upcoming events
Learn
Beautiful tea, made understandable.
Every tea we sell carries its own numbers — temperature, leaf, water, time. Start there, then stop measuring when you no longer need to. That is roughly how Eric got to intuitive brewing himself.
Temperature
175°F – 100°C
Leaf amount
3–8g
Water
100ml
First steep
10s – 1m
Re-steeps
4–10+
What’s on
Upcoming
Tea in the Park dates are posted as soon as they are planned, and are always weather permitting.
Sun, 11 Oct
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Thu, 15 Oct
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Thu, 5 Nov
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