Global Tea Hut Videos

We love sharing Tea. We share tea sessions in Taiwan and abroad. We send out teas to over 30 countries around the world every month. And now, we're sharing Tea Wisdom with all of you lovely people over the Internet with a new series of tea videos about each issue of Global Tea Hut.

You may have seen our YouTube video channel before. If not, take a little time to explore it and deepen your journey into the way of tea.

The July 2014 Global Tea Hut video features Wu De and our newest Hut resident, Max. They talk about this month's magazine and tea, drink tea together and share about the Hut's recent trip to Yunnan, China.

Each month, we'll post another video about that month's Global Tea Hut issue, so if you're ready to learn more, look out for them on our YouTube Channel around the same time as your envelopes show up in the mail.

Wanna know more about the Global Tea Hut videos? Cool.

If you haven't subscribed to Global Tea Hut yet, check out the What is Global Tea Hut? video first. It will explain what we do and how it benefits you, tea farmers and the environment.

If you already know what Global Tea Hut is all about, we recommend the videos on Bowl Tea, Boiled Tea and Side-handle Pot Tea to help you learn more about these three tea brewing methods.

And if you want to learn more about what Global Tea Hut helps do in Taiwan, watch the Light Meets Life Intro video. You'll be amazed at what's going on these days!

Happy viewing!

Wishing you joy and wisdom in each sip,
The Global Tea Hut family

July Global Tea Hut Mailing

Yesterday, we mailed out the July issue of Global Tea Hut, Look for it in your mailbox soon! In the meantime, here are a few photos from the mailing:


Tea Sage Hut volunteer Max packing envelopes


Detail view of the new upgrade to the envelopes (one of the many upgrades we're making as Global tea Hut membership grows)


Wu De carefully packing July's Global Tea Hut tea (which, SPOILER ALERT, we made by hand ourselves with the help of a few fellow travelers during our Yunnan trip)


A Buddha watching over the whole process (and especially over that Shane McPhane guy... gotta keep an eye on him)

Still haven't subscribed? It may not be too late! We'll continue sending out July issues until the end of July. You can subscribe here.

Photos from Yunnan

The July issue of Global Tea Hut will include lots of photos and stories from our recent trip to Yunnan. In the meantime, here are a few photos of our journey...

Amazing, vegetarian, Yunnanese food:



Tien Wu pressing a sheng puerh cake by dancing atop a stone mold:



Shane & Lindsey wrapping their just-pressed puerh cakes:



Wu De before a Kuan Yin shrine in a grotto in Dali, Yunnan:



A gorgeous, noble, 2700-year-old tea tree in Ai Lao, which we hiked for an hour or two to reach:



Beautiful rock patterns on the ground in an ancient town in Yunnan:



The group meditating over fresh tealeaves we rolled into Red Tea:

We're in Yunnan!

Last year, we started an annual tradition to raise funds for a bigger tea center in Taiwan. It's not any old fundraiser--it's a custom pressing of organic puerh cakes especially for Light Meets Life. Last year, we pressed three cakes: an organic Wuliang Mountain Sheng Puerh, an organic Snow Chrysanthemum Shou Puerh (pictured above) and an organic Ailao Mountain Sheng Puerh.

This year, we're in Yunnan to press more tea cakes. We're having another batch of the Shou pressed, as well as a red tea cake and another Ailao. This time, we're traveling to Ailao to select the leaves ourselves. Ailao is a protected reserve in which ancient tea trees are responsibly harvested, and we feel honored to be able to visit and share in this incredible gift from Nature.

After we return to Taiwan, we'll post some photos and notes from our trip here on the blog, and write about the trip in more detail in the Global Tea Hut magazine. In the meantime, wish us luck!

Light Meets Life Puerh Cakes

Last year, we started an annual tradition--a fundraising drive for our new tea center in Taiwan. The new tea center is called Light Meets Life. Similar to our current center (Tea Sage Hut), Light Meets Life is a nonprofit, donation-run center devoted to sharing the spirit and wisdom of tea with guests from around the world.

Anyway, more about the tea! In spring of 2013, we pressed three kinds of organic puerh cakes. Two were organic sheng puerh teas: one from Ailao Mountain and the other from Wuliang Mountain. And the third cake was an organic shou puerh pressed with organic "snow chrysanthemums"--a special kind of red chrysanthemum that blossoms out of the snow high on the Tibetan Plateau. The first two cakes are great for drinking now or for aging, and the third is a warming tea that we recommend enjoying in wintertime. For more info on each one, check out the July issue of Global Tea Hut, available to read for free here on our website.

Next month, we'll continue this tradition by traveling to Yunnan to press a new batch of organic puerh cakes as a Light Meets Life fundraiser. Exciting! In the meantime, we still have a few (very limited amount) cakes from last year left. If you're interested in donating toward the construction of Light Meets Life (and getting some amazing puerh in the process), contact us! globalteahut @ gmail . com