New tea class & online store updates
+ the first episode of our podcast!!
Dear tea friends,
Happy fall! I hope everyone is enjoying the beauty of the foliage in this season. It feels and smells particularly spectacular this year!
We have a lot of updates to share with you all, so without further ado…
New Tea Class on Sunday 10/20
We haven’t hosted a tea class in a while and have been getting a lot of requests, so we’re squeezing one in this month! The menu will be 5 teas omakase-style (tea host’s choice), and seating is limited to 6 people. Both new and experienced tea drinkers are welcome. If you are an old customer and would like to try new teas that you haven’t tried before, or if you have any requests in general, feel free to leave them in the “comments” section of your order. As a newsletter subscriber, you can take $5 off your ticket with the code OCTOMA5. 🎁
Online Store: Arrivals & Departures
Our 2023 vintage of Yuja Peel is now available! This is the 4th vintage that we have sourced from Mr. Park in as many years. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, dried and aged citrus peel is warming in nature, and especially good for the lungs. Perfect for this time of year.
Just a few boxes left of 2022 Yuja Peel! Over time, this has transformed into a sweeter tea, while the newest vintage is a little more tart. (Mr. Park actually doubles the price of his older yuja peel every year, but we’re keeping them all the same, for now at least…!)
Osmanthus Green and Osmanthus Red, our own blended & lightly roasted oolongs that debuted over Mid-Autumn Festival, are now in the online shop! They are available individually or together as a set.
We’re slowly starting to say goodbye to 2015 Longevity, our aged shou mei white tea. This was one of the first non-oolongs that we featured, and while we’ve been fortunate enough to restock it several times over the past two years, the tea maker has finally sold out of it, and has not made it in the same style since. When it comes to vintage-specific teas, once a tea is gone, it is gone for good. If you are a card-carrying member of this tea’s fan club, please take note! We will definitely be on the lookout for a new white tea (and maybe some other non-oolongs!) soon.
If there is a tea that you want Broken Cup Teahouse to source, you are always welcome to tell us! Just comment on or reply to this newsletter, or message us on Instagram.
Podcast
Some of you might remember from a previous newsletter that local musician and tea enthusiast Jonathan Kronheimer and I started a podcast! This project has been (leisurely) ongoing for almost half a year now, and we are very excited to release our very first episode. We brew and discuss 2024 Spring Dawn, the picking and processing of high mountain oolongs, brewing them “thickly,” and Rachmaninoff’s ‘Lilacs’. There’s a “bonus” blooper at the end (please feel free to skip if it makes you cringe like it made me…). Take a listen here:
If you have any feedback you’d like to share about our podcast, please don’t hesitate!
As always, thank you for your support!
- Yin