Tea and Coffee Club

This is most spread tea type. It has almost legendary background. It is mostly consumed in the China and Japan but in recent years it is spread in the west countries, too.

Where is it coming from?

There are several types of green tea and they can be generally divided in several groups: Chines green tea, Japanese green tea, Ceylon green tea and Kahwah. Each of these types have one or more variants, but more about that later.

Health and Legends

As we already know all tea comes from the evergreen tea bush (Camellia Sinensis). Tea types are defined by how leaves are harvested and processed.

Green Tea

Ok, where did tea come from?

By one popular Chinese legend, Shennong, who was Emperor of China and also inventor of agriculture and Chinese medicine, was drinking a bowl of boiling water. Than the wind blew and a few leaves from a nearby tree fell into his water and began to change its colour. Shennong, as any other inquisitive and curious man took a sip of the brew and was pleasantly surprised by its flavour and its restorative properties,this he discovered later.

Leonhard Rauwolf, a German physician:
A beverage as black as ink, useful against numerous illnesses, particularly those of the stomach. Its consumers take it in the morning, quite frankly, in a porcelain cup that is passed around and from which each one drinks a cupful. It is composed of water and the fruit from a bush called bunnu.

Do you know that tea is the most widely consumed drink is the world, second only to water. It is drinked cold, hot, any time, any where. Some drink it fast, some slow, some have drinking ceremony.

Tea is made by soaking processed leaves, buds, or twigs of the tea bush (Camellia sinensis) in hot water for several minutes. Tea bush can be processed by oxidation, heating, drying, and the addition of other herbs, flowers, spices, and fruits. There are four basic types of true tea: black tea, oolong tea, green tea, and white tea.

Every day millions of people are drinking tea or/and coffee but only few of them are aware what they are drinking. Here we will try together to find out what we are drinking. Also, we'll try to tell a story how we use to drinking tea, coffee across time and continents.