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The Way of Tea: Chinese Tea Magazine
A printable magazine that sorts Chinese tea into its six families, green, white, yellow, oolong, red and dark, and then shows you how to brew each one with whatever you own. It ends with log pages so you can keep track of the teas you try.
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The Way of Tea is a 40-page printable magazine for anyone trying to make sense of the types of Chinese tea. Its first chapter sorts them into six families, green, white, yellow, oolong, red and dark, and explains that all six come from the same plant and differ in how the leaf is handled after picking.
One page per family
Each family gets a page built the same way: a photograph of the dry leaf, how the leaf is processed, a water temperature and steeping time, a few lines on how it tastes, and three named teas to look for, such as Dragon Well, Tieguanyin or Keemun. The magazine calls black tea by its Chinese name, red tea, and says so on the page, which saves some confusion when you shop.
Brewing with what you have
The second chapter starts with the gaiwan in six steps, then the clay pot in four, then a plain mug in four and cold brew in three. There’s also a page for making tea with no teaware at all, and a side-by-side of cold brew and hot brew. None of it assumes you own anything special, and the magazine says more than once that a mug makes excellent tea.
Tea in everyday life, and your own notes
Later chapters cover tea through the seasons, a short five-senses exercise, small table courtesies and a page on what is in the cup, which is marked as general information rather than medical advice. The back of the magazine adds teaware, storage times by tea family, answers to common problems like bitter or watery tea, and food pairings.
The four write-in pages are the ones to print more than once. The brewing log, shelf inventory and tasting notes each open with a filled-in example line, and the tea year page gives you one row per month.
Printing
Much of the magazine is full-page imagery, so turn on background graphics in your print settings and print at 100%. The printing guide in the download suggests 120 gsm or heavier matte paper so the photos don’t show through.
