How to Craft the Perfect Cup of Tea – Part 4 – Oolong Tea

Guest Writer at The Modern Day Gentleman
Mr. Maston pastors a small church in Fort Collins, Colorado. He studied Music at Colorado State University and theology at Channel Islands Bible College and Seminary. He has been married for 13 years and has four children.
Mr. Maston

Meet Oolong Tea Welcome to the party! An intimate get-together, I know. I’ve already introduced you to two of my best friends. First: Black Tea. Black Tea is the kind of relationship you can count on. Strong, faithful, dependable. He is the strong friend who can give you the energy and courage to face a […]

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How to Craft the Perfect Cup of Tea – Part 3 – Green Tea

Guest Writer at The Modern Day Gentleman
Mr. Maston pastors a small church in Fort Collins, Colorado. He studied Music at Colorado State University and theology at Channel Islands Bible College and Seminary. He has been married for 13 years and has four children.
Mr. Maston

Heading East This tea is no longer a stranger to us in the west, though there was a time that that was the case. It was many years ago that I first encountered green tea. I had long existed in a perfectly binary world of beverage appreciation. “Will that be coffee or tea?” The question […]

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How to Craft the Perfect Cup of Tea – Part 2 – Black Tea

Guest Writer at The Modern Day Gentleman
Mr. Maston pastors a small church in Fort Collins, Colorado. He studied Music at Colorado State University and theology at Channel Islands Bible College and Seminary. He has been married for 13 years and has four children.
Mr. Maston

By far the most common and familiar tea to us in the west is black tea (though that is changing rapidly).  Black tea takes freshly picked tea leaves and bruises them through various means.  Over a carefully measured and observed amount of time the tea leaf oxidizes (much like a freshly cut apple when left […]

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How to Craft the Perfect Cup of Tea

Guest Writer at The Modern Day Gentleman
Mr. Maston pastors a small church in Fort Collins, Colorado. He studied Music at Colorado State University and theology at Channel Islands Bible College and Seminary. He has been married for 13 years and has four children.
Mr. Maston

Over the next 3 days, we will be posting a series of articles that will describe how to craft the perfect cup of tea. These articles are written by a dear friend of The Modern Day Gentleman blog, Mr. Brad Maston. He graciously offered his expertise in this area for our reader’s benefit. We know […]

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