Green tea training + a practical Teativity offer

This week’s focus is green tea — the category most easily damaged by the wrong water temperature.

For staff training and serious tasting, green tea is useful because the difference is immediate:

too hot → stewed, bitter, flat
controlled temperature → cleaner sweetness and clearer structure

Suggested to watch:

If you want a ready path for structured tasting and staff calibration, that is the direction behind Teativity.

This week’s offer

When you order Teativity, you also receive:

2 extra Wild Mountain green tea
temperature guidance insert for green tea practice

This is for practical training use, not collecting more samples.

Teativity:

https://www.storiesbehindgoods.com/#teativity

If you have questions about green tea temperature control in service, just reply to this email.

Warmly,

Ming

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