If people are exposed to high temperatures for a prolonged time, they can potentially get heatstroke, a condition caused by body...

It is a common sense that drinking strong tea and strong coffee can be bad for our health. But in terms of the definition of a strong...

Enjoying a tea is fairly easy. We don’t need complex machines, industrialized equipments, or a time-consuming process. A kettle of...

When I was very young, I once asked our tea maker Mr. Xue Sr.: natural talent and experience, which one is the more important quality of...

If you’re a regular tea drinker, you must have heard the term “high mountain tea”. To many people, “high mountain tea” is a just another...

The summer heat peaks around this time. If you live in the northeast, you’ve probably experienced one of the hottest summers last week....

In our opinion, Fujian is the most important tea-producing area in the world. Fujian is the birthplace of black tea (Tongmu Village/桐木关),...

Recently, one of our friends from Illinois shared a white tea product with us. He said that his local tea shop owner told him that this...

If you follow us on social media (@valleybrooktea on Twitter and Instagram), you might have seem pictures and videos of a recent flood...

The heathy growth of tea plants requires a set of conditions. In an ideal growing environment, tea plants can grow stronger, live longer,...

In our last blog, we talked about black tea “Jin Jun Mei/金骏眉” and the first two common misunderstandings. (see last blog for more) Today,...

Happy 4th of July! Click here to check out our holiday sale! When it comes to black tea, we have to talk about “Jin Jun Mei/金骏眉”, the...

The highest temperature in Washington DC today is 94F/34C. Whether we like it or not, this is only the beginning of the hottest time of...

Recently, many readers asked us that since we only have one harvest per year, what do we do after the harvest? Do we just focus on sales...

There are two important tea knowledge that we cannot emphasize enough: 1. Tea plants do not make tea. 2. There aren’t any “green tea...

In tea drinking, black tea is always considered good for the stomach. This is not a groundless claim. As a fully fermented tea, black tea...

When we discuss the history black tea, there’s one black tea we cannot avoid: Lapsang Souchong/正山小种. To many tea lovers, Lapsang Souchong...

The making of Black Tea is not a mystery. From the harvest, fresh leaves need to go through at least 9 stages of processing to become a...

Tea as a beverage is incredible. The flavors and the aromas of an authentic tea product does not have any “ingredients”. All those...

In our previous white tea blogs, there’s one thing we never fully explained: the fragrance of those “white hairs” on tea leaves. Today,...