Saturday, 5 December 2009

Oh Christmas Tea

Oh Christmas Tea, Oh Christmas Tea
How are thy leaves so verdant...

We're not talking the obvious Cinnamomum verum, synonym C. zeylanicum (Cinnamon), but something altogether more interesting...

We normally blog about tea and creativity in preference to telling you about stuff we sell, but it's December and you may be thinking of what to buy the tea lover in your life, well there's plenty of creative tea ideas for you to choose from... official membership to the Tea Appreciation Society includes certificate with unique membership number, welcome letter, members only badge and sticker



Tea Appreciation Society's range of Tea, organic Tea-Shirts and Tea-Bags are available through our online shop http://shop.teaappreciationsociety.org/




Oh Christmas Tea, Oh Christmas Tea
How are thy leaves so verdant...

Sunday, 29 November 2009

Winter is Cool







It's (un)officially winter - Northern Hemisphere, not until the solstice to be fair, BUT it's a time for long walks and returning home to a warm fire and piping hot tea

Enjoy...

Huge thanks to Ed Schofield our official photographer

http://www.flickr.com/photos/edschofield/

Friday, 27 November 2009

Tea Total

Lucy Izzard very kindly allowed me to use her animation earlier this year for a talk I gave in Bristol about tea.

Here it is for you now...

Animated look at the British obsession of Tea Drinking.
By Lucy Izzard.

Winner of the BBC New Animation Award 2005

Wednesday, 25 November 2009

Tea & Surf

The Tea Appreciation Society was founded in 2007 by a small collective of surfers, it is the one thing we all have in common, individually we are artists and designers and musicians and writers, together we are surfers, surfing really is our cup of tea.

Based in Cornwall in the UK we are often in the ocean, and when we're not, we're enjoying good
quality loose leaf tea.

Because we are surfers there will often be an element of what we do, and write about at the Tea Appreciation Society that is connected to our surf culture, it's a culture that spans the world and there are many different elements to it.

We embrace creativity in every genre of art, music, tea drinking and wave riding. It is a broad canvas, and we will respect individuals and movements that paint on their canvas in any way they choose.

It’s all about Tea & Creativity

The world is a better place with both...


TEAm Rider Mr John Isaac (Revolver Surf Shop)

The drift surf magazine exhibition in Bristol on Saturday was a huge success, we started early on the tea, thanks to everyone at the howies shop for letting me make the brews ;-) it was good to catch up with you all again since my visit earlier in the year to talk at the wee do lecture about Tea & Philosophy, I'm sorry I missed Matt this time.

A big thanks to Howard and Angela from drift, we all enjoyed the good food and good Traditional English Ale

Here's a short film of the exhibition.

We're all looking forward to the next one.

drift surf exhibition 2009 from teajuana on Vimeo.

Friday, 20 November 2009

Surf's Up



The Tea Appreciation Society are pleased to support Drift Magazines exhibition in Bristol on Saturday 21st November.

Drift is taking over the howies store in Bristol for a day of surf-related entertainment.

Roll up, roll up… step inside and check out hand-made boards from Royal, Laminations, Glass Tiger, Seed Surf Company, Trim and Ocean Green; as well as a whole heap of eye candy from the Drift collective, the Tea Appreciation Society and a good number of our friends for you to browse (and some are for sale).

Things kick off at 11am, and Surfers Against Sewage will be rounding off the day with a workshop at 3pm.

If you're in the Bristol area pop in and say Hi

the kettle's on...

oh and there's some beer or something too ;-)

howies store, 62 Queen's Road, Bristol BS8 1RE

Tuesday, 17 November 2009

the Love of Tea - Bike Art









artwork by Yakob Swyer

Sunday, 15 November 2009

DJ Spotted Wearing TAS Tea-Shirt



Spotted in Warsaw - based in Brighton - Amongst The Pigeons

Amongst The Pigeons
"short, sweet and a tad jazzy" - Rob Da Bank (radio1)

www.myspace.com/amongstthepigeons
- myspace
www.amongstthepigeons.info
- website

'music to brush your teeth to' - the debut lp available now

Monday, 9 November 2009

Good News for Loose Leaf Tea Lovers


Exotic new organic China teas could soon find their way onto our shelves.

A new agreement means small producers of high quality organic China tea will find it much easier to access the UK market with their products.

New green and black teas, as well as more unusual white, yellow, oolong and puer teas expertly produced by small-scale tea gardens across the major growing regions of China, may be in UK shops by summer 2010, following a mutual agreement between the two leading organic certifiers - the Soil Association in the UK and Organic Tea Research and Development Company in China [1].

Following a series of negotiations and detailed training, these two certifiers have agreed to recognise each other’s inspection regimes [2]. This will significantly reduce the cost of organic certification in China, as UK inspectors no longer need to inspect in China, nor vice versa. This opens the way for much smaller producers to extend to the UK market.

Soil Association Certification’s Managing Director David Peace said: “This is great news for tea lovers. We expect to see 15-20 new tea varieties arrive in the first couple of years, with perhaps many more to follow. These will probably be available from specialist tea shops, but we’re hoping that supermarkets will show an interest too.

The challenge for the Chinese tea producers now is to market their products here successfully. Most significantly this agreement means that large volumes of organic China tea will be certified to the Soil Association’s high standards, so consumers can be sure it has been grown without artificial fertilisers and avoiding pesticides.”

Thanks to Jack at the soil association for this info.

Saturday, 31 October 2009

Halloween Tea

If you are of a sensitive nature and are offended by strong language, please exercise your right to choose not to watch this.

For everyone else, enjoy.

tea and toast from Matt Taylor on Vimeo.

Friday, 30 October 2009

New Tees



New ladies tees in stock now.

We hand print all our organic tee shirts in Cornwall.

We only ever print in small batches, so numbers are limited, get them while you can...

Chin Chin!