A Tea That Tastes Like Chocolate: Sister Ai’s Ancient Tree Red Tea Coin

Today we’re brewing Sister Ai's Everyday Ancient Tree Red Tea! I’ll show how it opens up between each steep, and we'll taste a clean tea with malty, chocolate notes that feel like a Tootsie Roll.

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro (Part 5: the 7 Tea Coins)

00:15 Mini tong packaging

00:20 Meet Sister Ai: our tea farm partner

00:25 Why this region produces the BEST tea

00:55 What the mini tong is

01:05 Everyday Ancient Tree Red Tea from 200-year trees

01:25 Thousand Year Ancient Tree Red Tea explained

01:50 Black tea vs “red tea”

02:05 What a tea coin is + steeping basics

02:35 Coin opening + wash steep

03:20 Tasting and color notes

04:50 How we source and ship our tea

05:55 QR codes on the coins + finding steeping instructions

06:15 Steep timing tips

06:50 The second steep

07:05 Tasting notes: Chocolate, Tootsie Roll, and MORE!

09:40 耐泡 (nai pao) explained

10:20 One tea coin for nine people

10:52 How to preserve your tea

12:00 High-end tea vs low-end tea

12:20 Why tea bags taste “off”

14:45 Final steep

15:55 Closing