Types of Tea
This common tea type is known for its grassy flavor and green color.
What is green tea?
Tea originated in this country.
What is China?
This is the ideal water temperature for green tea: hot or boiling?
What is hot (not boiling)?
This country is famous for matcha (HINT: and cherry blossoms).
What is Japan?
Tea is the second most consumed beverage in the world after this.
What is water?
This reddish, fully oxidized tea is often enjoyed with milk and sugar.
What is black tea?
This famous American protest involved dumping tea into a harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Steeping tea for too long can make it taste this.
What is bitter? (BONUS: WHY?)
Chai is a spiced tea commonly associated with this country.
What is India?
Tea comes from the leaves of this plant.
What is Camellia sinensis?
This tea is made from dried leaves and buds and is minimally processed.
What is white tea?
This British company controlled much of the early tea trade.
What is the British East India Company?
This three-piece brewing vessel uses a lid, bowl, and saucer.
What is a gaiwan?
This East African country is one of the world’s largest exporters of black tea.
What is Kenya?
Tea naturally contains this stimulant that helps you feel alert (HINT: it's also in coffee!)
What is caffeine?
This dark tea is aged and fermented, often pressed into cakes. Originated in China
What is pu-erh tea?
This 19th-century British-Chinese conflict was partly caused by the tea trade as well as its namesake.
What are the Opium Wars?
In Chinese tea culture, this small clay figure is placed on the tea tray and “fed” tea during brewing for good luck. Develops a shiny patina over time.
What is a tea pet / 茶宠 (chá chǒng)?
This fermented sweet tea called kombucha is believed to have originated here.
What is China?
Herbal teas aren’t true tea because they don’t come from this plant.
What is Camellia sinensis?
This tea is powdered and whisked before drinking, rather than steeped.
What is matcha?
This ancient Chinese text is the earliest book about tea.
What is The Classic of Tea (Cha Jing)?
Black tea is typically steeped for this many minutes.
What is 3–5 minutes?
Butter tea made with yak butter and salt comes from this mountainous region.
What is Tibet?
This compound in tea helps you feel calm yet alert.
What is L-theanine?