Tea Education

  • April 2026 Subscription: Spring Greens!

    by Dylan Conroy
    Welcome to the long-awaited, highly anticipated April 2026 Spring Teas subscription box!In this subscription, we are showcasing some fresh 2026 spr...

  • Opinion: The Tea Market is Better than it's Ever Been Thanks to Machines

    by Dylan Conroy
    One of the best things to happen to the tea market as a whole was the invention of tea making machines. Tea making machines often get a bad wrap be...

  • Subscriptions Round Two: Bai Lin Gong Fu

    by Dylan Conroy
    This box is pretty straight forward and simple. Take one tea and really understand it.Bai Lin Gong Fu is a black tea from Bai Lin Town in Fu Ding. ...

  • A Search for Qimen

    by Dylan Conroy
    I stepped out of the cab and was met with familiar sights, sounds and smells. I was standing at the end of Tunxi’s Old Street, a corner I have stoo...

  • Tale of Two Tea Shops: Part Two

    by Dylan Conroy
    Thank you to Abigal for reminding me to finish this story.Here is part onehttps://sweetestdew.com/blogs/tea-education/a-tale-of-two-tea-shops-part-...

  • Subscription Box #1: White Tea Cakes

    by Dylan Conroy
    This is the first month of selling organized subscriptions and for the first focused subscription we are looking at white tea cakes. The subscripti...

  • Everything I know About White Tea So Far

    by Dylan Conroy
    I have been in the white tea region for one year and in that time my understanding of white tea making and its flavor have developed greatly. While...

  • Pre-Sale Updates: Timeline

    by Dylan Conroy
    Hello Everyone. I Want to first thank everyone for their interest and support of the 2025 presales. This years presale was the biggest yet and I lo...

  • Presales are live!

    by Dylan Conroy
    Presales are back this year, but they are a little different. In the past there have been some struggles with presales. One of the main struggles b...

  • The Difference Between Leaf Pick and Quality.

    by Dylan Conroy
    Now before we get into this I do want to take a moment to recognize that buds can be important part of quality. If you have me choose from two Qime...

  • An Unexpected Shop. An Unexpected Tea

    by Dylan Conroy
    From the outside it looks like a phone shop with a tea table. The awning is for a phone store and one wall as well as the back of the store is fill...
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  • A Tale of Two Tea Shops: Part One

    by Dylan Conroy

    We talked about many things, mostly the differences in locations within Fu Ding. He, unlike other sellers I had met, did not regard one area as better than others. He saw all areas in Fu Ding as capable of making good tea. I enjoyed this attitude even if I did think some areas were better than others.

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