Change Log: 3/30/2026

Book:

• No Changes.

Other Content:

• (Previously) Published Research Trip 2026: Menghai (勐海) - Pre Trip Editorial Conversation.
• Published Editorial Conversation: Chapter 11, Section 1: Magnetism & Black Coring (黑骨).

Updates:

• We are back from our successful Tea Technique Research Trip 2026 - Menghai, focused on pu'er production. This is a multi-year research initiative supporting the eventual publication of a book on sheng pu'er.
• We are still delayed on the next chapter - I had planned to do a lot more writing while in China for the last month, but I only partially succeeded: I mostly wrote about pu'er (which you will see in an upcoming Trip Report). I humbly request and appreciate your patience. As I wrote in the last change log update: The next chapter on Qing Dynasty Yixing Teapot Design is shaping up to be an even longer chapter than the Ming Dynasty Yixing Teapot Design, which came in around ~50 pages. Longer chapters take commensurately longer to write, fact-check, and edit, so I appreciate the understanding on our decreased publishing cadence. It will be a good chapter!
• Our next Talk, Taste, Triage events are scheduled for Wednesday, April, 8th and Thursday, April 23rd, both at 6pm - 8pm.
  • Talk, Taste, Triage is a reoccurring small group gathering of tea practitioners where readers can ask questions, request experiments, and learn about specific types of tea. Guests are welcome to bring tea and tea wares for identification, troubleshooting, and critique.
  • Subscribers are also most welcome to join us without any topics or troubleshooting in mind - there's always good tea from my collection to taste and enjoy together.
  • To help us with capacity planning, we ask everyone to RSVP: if you plan to attend a Talk, Taste, Triage event, please reply to the Change Log email or text Jason. If you have special requests for tastings or experiments, please include the idea in your RSVP - this gives me a chance to select teas and plan out the best way to accomplish the ideal tasting sequence; incomplete ideas are totally OK, we can figure it out together. No need to over-plan: I can usually handle tea and ware ID without prior research or references, so don't feel bad about grabbing a last minute tea or a recently arrived ware.
  • Subscribers are welcome to bring 1 guest.