Change Log
Change Log: 6/9/2026 Paid Members Public
Book: * No Changes. Other Content: * Published Editorial Conversation: Research Trip 2026: Menghai (勐海) - Post Trip. * Published Editorial Conversation: Chapter 11, Section 2 & 3: Tie Rong (铁熔) and Tu Hei (吐黑). Updates: * I am so incredibly behind on the next chapter of the book; lots of work, life, and the
Change Log: 4/22/2026 Paid Members Public
Book: * No Changes. Other Content: * Published Editorial Conversation: Chapter 11, Section 2: Under-fired Zisha Clay. Updates: * Thank you to everyone who joined our last TTT; Our next Talk, Taste, Triage event is scheduled for tomorrow - Thursday, April 23rd at 6pm - 8pm. * Talk, Taste, Triage is a reoccurring small group
Change Log: 3/30/2026 Paid Members Public
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
Change Log: 2/1/2026 Paid Members Public
Book: * No Changes. Other Content: * Published Editorial Conversation - Chapter 10, Section 7: Electric Kilns (电窑). Updates: * The next chapter on Qing Dynasty Yixing Teapot Design is delayed another week or two; this is shaping up to be an even longer chapter than the Ming Dynasty Yixing Teapot Design, which came
Change Log: 1/4/2026 Paid Members Public
Book: * No Changes. Other Content: * Published Editorial Conversations AMA #7 (with Max Falkowitz from Leafhopper). * Published Editorial Conversation: Chapter 10, Section 6: Shuttle Kilns (梭式窑). Updates: * Happy New Year to all our readers and friends! We couldn't be more grateful for your support of Tea Technique. Our next
Change Log: 12/24/2025 Paid Members Public
Book: * Published Book 2 - Chapter 12, Section 1: Ming Dynasty Yixing Teapot Designs. Other Content: * No Changes. Updates: * This is a long chapter - more than 50 pages on Yixing teapot design in the Ming. Our cadence seems to have dropped further, to about 1 chapter a month, with the increased
Change Log: 12/3/2025 Paid Members Public
Book: * Updated multiple instances of a terminology error, correcting oxidase to oxide in Chapter 8. Other Content: * Published Editorial Conversation - Chapter 10, Section 5: Tunnel Kilns (隧道窑). Updates: * The forthcoming chapter on the Ming dynasty is behind schedule, though if I may tease, it is long and wonderful. It will
Change Log: 10/20/2025 Paid Members Public
Book: * No Changes. Other Content: * Published Editorial Conversation: Wuyi (武夷) Trip Report 2025; this is the companion podcast to the previously published Wuyi Revisited: 2025 Trip Report on Cult of Quality. Updates: * Correction - Our next scheduled Talk, Taste, Triage is this week: Wednesday, October 22nd at 6pm - 8pm. * Talk, Taste,