Find the best Chinese teas for coffee drinkers, including malty black tea, roasted oolong, ripe Pu-erh, Liu Bao, and smoky teas with strong body and depth.

Learn how to brew loose leaf tea in a thermos without bitterness, including tea amount, tea choice, infuser bottles, travel mugs, and common thermos tea mistakes.

Learn why tea foams, whether bubbles on tea are normal, how to tell tea foam from hard-water film, and when loose leaf tea foam needs attention.

Learn how to describe tea flavor with simple tea tasting notes, aroma, taste, mouthfeel, finish, and examples from Chinese green, oolong, black, white and Pu-erh tea.

Learn whether you should rinse tea leaves before brewing, why Chinese tea drinkers discard the first infusion, how to rinse loose leaf tea, and what rinsing can and cannot remove.

Learn what black milk tea is, which black tea works best, and how to make iced or hot black milk tea at home with loose leaf black tea, milk, sweetener and optional boba.