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Short Version

Headline:

• Example: A Timeless Tradition; A Modern Experience
  

Brand Story: Share why Tea Tavern started—what inspired it, what sets it apart, such as commitment to quality, sustainability, and authentic brewing techniques.

• The Tea Tavern was born from a passion for the positive influences and effects of tea culture. Inspired by the warmth of old-world taverns and the ritualistic beauty of Gong Fu brewing, we source the finest loose-leaf teas from around the world, ensuring each leaf tells a story of craftsmanship and connection.

SEO Friendly Mission Statement: 

• We are dedicated to helping helping you achieve a better, healthier life through qualifiably high-quality beverages.

Call to Action:

• Meet Our Teas and Learn About the Brews.

Long Version

Many adventurers come through the tavern seeing respite and fine drink, after their adventures. The Tea Tavern aims to support it’s patrons by providing them with the finest brewing supplies, teachings of how to best use them, and a community of people to share it all with. We support bringing people towards a better, healthier life.

In the beginning, the Tea Tavern's keeper found a consistent problem when brewing tea...
The brew was never as good as the tea brewed by others. 

Many can say that tea brewing is an art, however it is an art that the tavern keeper never seemed to be able to perform well in. However, year after year, more and more people came to the keeper to talk about tea, to share tea, and to talk about the different aspects of the art of brewing tea to study. Over time, many tea importers, tea house owners, brewing experts, and scientists shared their teas and techniques. "The Art of Tea" was found to be the wrong direction; rather, "The Science of Tea" was something the keeper could get behind.

The journey of the Tea Tavern's creation started with WillyDoesLife, a friend who taught gongfu tea brewing. 
WillyDoesLife introduced David Lee Hoffman, one of the first - if not the first - people to sell tea from China.
David showed what a difference high quality leaf made, as well as a gifted all the tooling needed for gongfu brewing. 
Through familial introductions, the tavern keeper later met the TeaHouseGhost; a specter with not only enough charisma to compete with Casper, and enough knowledge of traditions and brewing to give the impression that his spirit is also that of his ancestors. He was able to teach everything that the Tea Tavern's keeper was missing in brewing tea, what made tea a science, and what made tea an art. The trouble with the keeper's brews was not an inability to move the brush, however. Rather, there was something wrong in the pigments for painting... which is to say... when brewing tea, there was something in the water.

The TeaHouseGhost then suggested that the Tea Tavern's keeper speak with the Water Wizards of TeaCurious.
And true wizards they were; TeaCurious' Rei was able to explain that how tea water and its dissolved components can strongly affect the flavor of the brew. Not only did they provide the answer to what was preventing the keeper's tea from tasting as good as all those who shared their own teas, but they even provided the scrolls on which they recorded the measurements, components, and the reasoning for them with the grand "Internet" archives of the world!

The answer to "why can't I make good tea..?" was in the composition of the water. Not just the leaves.

With the journey at an end, the Tea Tavern was made, aiming to bring the same wisdom found from the brews made with the science and the art. No matter the situation of the tavern patrons, the Tea Tavern will be open. Perhaps one is like Mr. Frodo, who seeks to recover from encounters with dark forces; like Tripitaka, seeking the wisdom of the world; or simply like Princess Merida, in an attempt to escape the stress, hustle, and bustle of the castle, the Tea Tavern will lend the wisdom needed to reach their goals for the finest composed teas.

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With this all said, the above story is indeed a romanticized story, but it is a true story. Everyone referenced (except the story book characters, of course) were a direct influence to not only the support in the creation and development of Tea Tavern as a business, but also to the tavern's products.

David Lee Hoffman is the owner of The Phoenix Collection, where we wholesale teas such the 1995 "Green Pu'erh" and Aini Bamboo Shu. He was one of, if not the, Americans to go to and source tea from China. In the documentary All in this Tea, people can see the attention to quality through his telling of how tea smelled, how tea tasted, and what was used to grow the tea (ex. organic fertilization). He even cared about the lives of the farmers and their ability to sell tea without requiring a factory as the transacting middle-man. Something that may have helped the growth of two other vendors: West China Tea and Grass People Tree.

Grass People Tree (GPT) is one of Tea Tavern's and West China Tea's direct-from-farm vendors.
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