Alexis Kaae

Alexis Kaae

We Had the Honor of Tasting a 64-Year-Old Puerh

When we travel in China, we often have the opportunity to taste some very exceptional, rare, and indescribably expensive teas. We experienced this again this year on our trip to Yunnan in May-June. Our good friend and tea master Mr.…

Rare Yunnan Black Tea

There is a black tea that can make us completely blissful. We do not hesitate to call it the world’s best black tea. We tasted it in 2011 when we traveled to Yunnan Province in China, and that day our…

Tea Production in the Jing Mai Mountains

In the southernmost part of China, just a few kilometers from Myanmar, lies one of the most beautiful areas in the world, namely Jing Mai. At an altitude of 1600 meters, ethnic minorities, the Dai and Bulang people, wake up…

Kombucha Tea: The Modern Tea Trend

Right now, Kombucha tea is making its way onto all the shelves in supermarkets and delicatessens. Simply Tea has been a bit curious and has researched and experimented with this somewhat unusual drink that has become the trend of today.…

Kombucha Brewing

Kombucha Green Tea Quantity: 1 liter of finished Kombucha. Equipment: Instructions: SCOBY(symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast)

Tea Bags: What’s the Alternative?

Tea bags are a controversial topic for me, and I will never understand why people prefer machine-produced dust wrapped in chemically manufactured bags and believe they are experiencing tea. If that’s what most people can offer, then I belong to…

Special Tea vs. Commercial Tea

More than ten years ago, when I started my journey into the world of tea, I never anticipated how this little tea bush would change my life and the world around me forever. I knew nothing about the tea industry,…

The Matcha Wave

You can’t open a magazine or Facebook these days without being bombarded with Matcha products. Matcha smoothies, Matcha lattes, Matcha cakes, etc. But what do we really know about Matcha? It is a fact that all Matcha is powdered green…

Quality Tea

Your teas are quite pricey! This is often the remark we encounter when people see the prices of our teas. Often, it’s people who buy 3 packs of tea bags for 30 kroner at their local supermarket who react this…

Bitterness in Tea

How to Avoid Bitterness in Tea? There are many factors that contribute to bitterness in tea. It can range from our individual taste receptors in the mouth to the quality of the leaves, as well as how we brew, store,…