This Is Tea

Tea with Joyce in Berlin. She offers various tea tastings and other events. More via die Kunst des Tees.

The Berlin Tea Festival takes place 23 November 2019. My interactive session is at 13:45.

What remains after we drink tea? My Interactive Session at the Berlin Tea Festival features two answers: 1. pigment to make unique prints, and 2. a certain beauty in saved leaves…coming soon. Festival Date 23. Nov, my Interactive Session at 13:45.

Wet tea leaves pressed onto paper. This year at the Berlin Tea Festival I’m delighted to host an Interactive Session that poses the question “what remains after we drink tea?” This series of 15 unique prints provide an answer to that question, and will be on display at the festival. Details via Berlin Tea Festival. Date: 23. Nov, Session at 13:45.

Let’s have tea at the Berlin Tea Festival! Saturday 23. November at Heilig Kreuz-Kirche. I’m volunteering and will host an Interactive Session. Details soon.

A most peaceful gathering of humanity at the Čajomír (Tea) Festival in Prague. See more from 2019 as well as 2018.

Found at an outdoor market in Kreuzberg, Berlin. “Das kleine Buch vom Tee,” (The Little Book from Tea) by Martina Koch, printed in Germany c. 1994.  

This is a Chinese Puerh tea stuffed into a pomelo (You Zi Cha), c. 1990s, and allowed to age. I purchased it from David Lee Hoffman of “The Phoenix Collection” in Laguinitas, California, in 2017. Since then I’ve been chipping away at it. It brews very clear and aromatic infusions, both earthy and yes, citrusy. I brewed it a few times one morning, then again later that day, then again the next morning. By then it still had such nice flavor. A sign of a good tea. See the original post on this tea.

Delighted to receive teas from Renegade Tea Estate, and the great team of people working to restore tea cultivation and production in Georgia. So far the teas are very nice and have certain familiar qualities of twisted black teas, as well as a special character for each. Keep an eye on their site for their upcoming webshop.

The very excellent and peaceful Čajomír (Tea) Festival in Prague, August 2018. See more via Flickr. 

Greetings from the Čajomír Tea Festival in Prague.

Chinese green, Japanese green teas.

Chinese green, Chinese black tea leaves

Indian and Nepalese black teas, Chinese black teas

Recently with tea