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New trophy photo 10 Jun 2013 | 06:17 am
As promised, here is a photo of the trophy we received for the first-place award won by Lightly Roasted Iced Green Tea in this year's North American Green Tea Championship. Our acceptance speech is s...
Podcast interview at My Japanese Green Tea 7 Jun 2013 | 04:16 am
I did a podcast interview with Ricardo Caicedo, a green tea blogger who is incredibly passionate about tea. Ricardo is also a very patient man, because I talked too much, and I'm sure editing the pod...
Lightly Roasted Iced Green places 1st again at the NATC 26 May 2013 | 05:52 am
Our Lightly Roasted Iced Green Tea has won 1st place once again at the North American Tea Championship, making two consecutive years that our iced green has received the judges' highest score in its c...
Tea for the gods 25 May 2013 | 09:45 am
From a wonderful book, a wonderful passage about a fisherman family living on the shores of Lake Kasumigaura in the 1920s: We always got up in the dark, and the first thing we did was make tea. When ...
ManaTea infuser 1 May 2013 | 10:30 am
Personally, I prefer infusers made of steel or ceramic, but I have to admit the ManaTea is an exceedingly clever idea. And the little guy does look so mellow. —Mellow Monk blog feed, facebook, revie...
Surprise snow on Mt. Aso 8 Apr 2013 | 12:09 pm
I just received this photo of a suddenly snow-covered Mt. Aso that greeted a surprised populace Saturday morning. It's so unusual to get snow after the cherry blossoms have bloomed, the sender comment...
The Monk tries DAVIDsTEA High-Mountain Organic Oolong 14 Mar 2013 | 09:17 pm
I recently stopped in at the DAVIDsTEA store in San Francisco's Westfield Center, where I had a fun, tea-centric chat with the knowledgeable and enthusiastic manager Jodit and walked out with a couple...
About freshness 6 Mar 2013 | 09:15 am
A customer today asked why our tea doesn't come stamped with expiration dates. This is a completely understandable question, so I wanted to share my answer, as follows: All of our tea is packaged by ...
Now on Pinterest! 4 Mar 2013 | 11:25 am
We have just put our favorite tea and Japanese photographs on Pinterest. Check out our Pinterest widget: —Mellow Monk blog feed, facebook, reviews, steepster, teas, tweets, videos
New albums in Google Plus 4 Mar 2013 | 03:40 am
As part of our new presence on Google Plus, I have uploaded some photos, including this "test embed": From the album Aso Scenery —Mellow Monk blog feed, facebook, reviews, steepster, teas, tweets, ...
