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Brewing Korean Nokcha, Ddeokcha & Citrus Tea

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Brewing Korean Nokcha, Ddeokcha & Citrus     Nokcha I have been asked to reveal my way of brewing Korean green teas (nokcha) particularly Sejak, and also how to brew the ancient, but still relatively new to the Western market, Korean tea - Ddeokcha. I usually don’t offer suggestions for brewing, as most of my clients are tea enthusiasts and don’t need advice. However, these wild and semi wild organically grown deep-rooted Korean teas are a little different, and ddeokcha and Lady Hadong's Citrus Tea 3 are relatively new to the Western market. The big thing to remember about Korean green tea is to infuse it for seconds not minutes. That last comment is also the basic crux of what Brother Anthony co-author of The Korean Way of Tea has suggested. He, like me, is very hesitant to make brewing recommendations. Brother Anthony’s other suggestion is simply that we should not be shy about the heat. These hand pickled and hand processed organically grown leaves from olde...

Welcome to TeaBuy Korea: Expanding Who We Are

TeaBuy Korea TM For the last several years Morning Crane Tea has been offering what we call TeaBuy Korea events in an effort to give you our clients the opportunity to taste what we believe are some of the best teas made in Korea. To that end and in the hope that the terms TeaBuy Korea will bring more clients to our site than the terms Morning Crane Tea,  Morning Crane Tea has just given birth to this new blog. Morning Crane Tea will hold only 1 or 2 TeaBuys each year. TeaBuy Korea is now its own wing of Morning Earth Korea.    Why are we doing this?   First, we at Morning Earth Korea were among the first to introduce special artisan and temple Korean teas to the Western Market. Second, the title of our company Morning Crane Tea is ambiguous as it doesn’t speak enough of Korea. When one searches for "Buy Korean tea", Morning Crane Tea is difficult to find.  That is why Morning Crane Tea now has the sibling - TeaBuy Korea.  We hope TeaBuy Kore...