It's All About Tea — chinese tea

At Path of Cha, we always recommend cold brew as the best way for extracting all the flavors and components out of a loose leaf tea. However, during the summer’s heat if you're in the mood to have a certain tea iced and just don’t want to wait a few hours for a cold brew, there is an alternative method for making iced tea. Find out how to make a quick iced tea without sacrificing as much flavor as you would with a classic iced tea, while saving more time! (Read more)

We’ve been getting this question a lot: what is the standard recipe for making cold brew tea?

So here it is. (Read more)

Once the rich favorable flavor of your tea begins to fade we immediately think it is time to toss it as it is of no use to us any longer. Yet there are actually plenty of uses for used tea leaves!

The truth is even though the tea leaves no longer have flavor, they still have nutrients. These nutrients can still serve their purpose in many ways. (Read more)

 

We all know China is a big country! With many varying climates, traditions and culture. This is also true when it comes to Chinese tea. And while tea is grown in many of China's regions, prominent tea growing regions occupy less than 50% of the whole country. The perfect tea calls for a very particular climate, ideally with high moisture and not too cold.

When purchasing loose leaf tea you’ll see that each tea comes from a different region. But would you be able to identify where it comes from based on the tea? Possibly not, but if you know which teas are grown in which region you can probably make a close guess. (Read more)

Grandpa style brewing actually is not as mysterious and fancy as it sounds.

And I’m sure we’ve all drank tea grandpa style before without even knowing it... (Read more)