Thanks!

:D Hey as long as you come everyday and spend your entire pay packet on tea then we are on to a winner!

+Beauty Artista fantastic thank you for your feedback, we love the house roast and I am happy that all of that experimenting was not a waste of tea!

Erin Asher Try them fresh first. You might like it

Great fellow experimentor!

You can certainly try in an oven! Start with a handful and if it works then roast your batch.

Coming up when we film in Japan.

So do we! Sydney is on our radar because my sister lives there!

Awesome, well drop me a line if you ever need a hand down under or are open! There's not much I brought with me from London but my tea brewing set is here :) We could use a tea masterclass session in the office here :)

OK!

Try roasting it if it tastes too green.

Yea, it was a little too bitter. Also the colour of the leaves were also green. So I think the tea is still "young". Would self roasting affect the tea in a "bad" way? Since it's not natural fermentation.

WongFeiHung1847 there is a trend to sell Duck Shit too raw and green in my opinion so I would try roasting a handful and you may prefer the taste.

eredruin no eye rolling I can imagine that flavour with a light dianhong.

Really ? The dry and wet leaves smelled like chocolate. I would have never imagined sweet corn...

Alexandre Guilloteau why have i never tried this

Yes it is and it naturally smells very sweet and floral.

If they did, the neighboring farmers would steal their secrets.

R.D. Dragon It is a name you will not forget. I like it. 😄

Duck Sugar Honey Ice Tea 😂

Jake Gardenhire lol you know there is no duck poo in the tea the farmer just named it that to make other farmers to not want to try to find out their secret but maybe they could have used duck poop as fertelizer (I dont belive they do though)

How is it similar? Coffee beans can only be used once when making espresso, a batch of tea can be infused up to 20 times. Espresso is also very strong and you drink it in tiny amounts, while tea is much more mellow and during a typical gong fu session you can easily drink more than a litre of tea. Then there's the fact that tea is often accompanied by what is sometimes a ritual practice or meditation... Other than them both being hot liquids, I really don't see many similarities :)

First and most important - you brew always a fresh and small amount and not a large pot! Other similarities between tea and coffee... There are countless varieties of plants to choose from. Countless variables to tweak during manufacturing and brewing. A lot of different ways to brew coffee or tea. Tea, coffee and wine have many complex flavors. Labs have so far identified 1200 essential oils in coffee beans (more than in wine) and a lot is still unknown. Tea is even more complex with an estimated amount of 30000 chemical components! (The chemists were surprised that tea is the most complex substance that were ever examined!) And the espresso fanatics have their ritual practice too. Just not a universal ritual that all are using. I see a lot of similarities between tea, coffee and wine but yes - only tea can be infused more than once! 😉

True, but if you look at it in this way, then coffee is not any more comparable to tea as it is to wine, beer, cheese... They are all very similar among themselves, yet you have thousands of different varieties.

Rok Sraka If you want to explain Gong Fu tea to somebody a short methapore is "the espresso of tea". Just a fresh and fast brewed cup instead of a slow drip brewed large pot. Everybody knows espresso and they want to hear more.

Trevor Humble unlikely to have an immediate effect unless they start to add extra taxes on tea from the UK.

:) this is real but I know what you mean.

McConvincing no she is my mistress

McConvincing i tea is my wife 😏

she is

Mei Leaf cheeky