17 Tea Blogs that Would take your Tea Experience to the New Level

There are so many sites out there that talk about tea, but let me tell you straight the 17 most useful and captivating tea blogs that would surely be worth your time to read.

Oolong Owl (https://oolongowl.com/)

Oolong Owl is a tea and shop website that reviews different kinds of teas and teaware. You could also easily browse the blog through its tea review index, categorizing the entries by name, brand, or type. There are also entries about travel and recipes using tea leaves.

My Japanese Green Tea (https://www.myjapanesegreentea.com/)

This blog talks about everything about all kinds of Japanese tea. The entries are so intricate that they will take you through the history, processing, and health benefits of different Japanese teas. Still want to learn about Japanese tea while driving? This site has its own podcast that you can tune into!

By Golly, Ollie! (https://bygollyollie.com/)

This blog contains YouTube videos about tea and book recommendations, and I've been doing this for quite a decade now. As stated, though Jackie, the owner of this site, has made several changes and facelifts both to the layout and content, she keeps coming back to talk about her much-loved topics: tea and books. You won’t find the site boring, as there are lots of tea videos if you find reading to be tiring.

Teacups and Things
(https://teacupsandthings.com/)

Kait, a Canadian-based lifestyle blogger, is an avid supporter of local tea and teacup shops. She collaborates with local shops that she can promote in her blogs. Her blog also has an online shop. Aside from tea, Kait also talks about lifestyle travel, food, and beauty in her blog. She makes sure to keep your browsing easy and breezy by category.

My tea Vault (https://myteavault.com/)

Lisa is also an avid fan of tea, and her blog is insightful about the dos and don’ts of drinking tea and its health benefits. Her blog reviews are so well organized that you could search her reviews depending on the type of tea you want to read. Even the tools and books related to tea processing are being reviewed in this blog.

TeaDB (https://teadb.org)

This site is a favorite, with a comment section that you could find in every entry and that is really talked about. The category index is also easy to follow since it is on the sidebar of every page of this site. This site is usually commended for conducting all of the detailed research and having video reviews that are informative and actually worth watching.

Tea with Friends
(http://teawithfriends.blogspot.com/)

Angela McRae’s Tea with Friends site talks about tea, not just the drink itself but anything related to it, from mugs to books and the arts. This is a well-updated site that has monthly entries in various quantities. Labeled hashtags are also provided in the sidebar for easy references. This blog and online shop have also been awarded as the Top 100 Tea Blogs and Websites For Tea Enthusiasts in 2020.

Life is Better with Tea
(http://www.lifeisbetterwithtea.com/)

Mary Ann focuses on loose tea leaves for her readers. She educates her readers as to the different types of teas and how to brew them according to the instructions. She also explains all the health benefits of each tea. If you find drinking tea monotonous, she also has a variety of recipes and other uses for your tea.

Hanamichi Flower Path
(http://www.hanamichiflowerpath.com)

This blog is owned by Heather Porter, a tea enthusiast and Certified Tea Specialist (STI) living in the Pacific Northwest. She is also a student and member of Kabuki Academy, where she has studied and performed classical Japanese dance for over fifteen years. The name of her blog is very interesting, as Hanamichi connotes two meanings. One, it consists of a raised platform or runway that leads from the main stage, through the audience, to the back of the theater, and two, it is also a reference to the tea fields and the lovely blossoms of the tea plant, Camellia sinensis. The name itself says so much about what the blog owner loves.

 Steep Stories by Lazy Literatus
(https://lazyliteratus.teatra.de/)

It could be said that there are only a few males in the tea blogging industry. Goffrey Norman tracks down unique teas, unique tea growing regions, epic tea stories, and interesting tea people behind those stories. The good thing about this blog is that, as admitted by Geoffrey himself, this is not a tea review blog but entries about tea stories and the people behind them.

Tea Squirrel (https://teasquirrel.com/)

The Tea Squirrel tea site has about one to three entries per month that talk about anything referring to teas, but focuses more on tea tasting and tea recipes. Blogger Anna talks about the perfect sweet combination for your favorite cup of tea, how tea captures the culture of a certain country, or how beneficial tea is to a stressful, busy life.

Tea for Me Please
(http://www.teaformeplease.com/)

The owner of this site, Nicole, who is from North America, is expressive with her love for tea. Her site focuses on the root of all causes—the Camellia sinensis—and has been doing this for a decade already. It has been featured on a lot of tea websites, such as worldtea, Nomad Tea Festival, The Daily Tea, and the Chicago International Tea Festival.

Hello Teacup (https://helloteacup.com/)

Hello Tea Cup concentrates more on Chinese teas and anything related to them, such as Chinese food, culture, and tea shops. The blog categories are extensive, where you could choose from tea guides, recipes, history, business news, starting a tea business, benefits, culture, videos, and others that you might find helpful to obtain information about Chinese tea.

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FAQs about Tea Blogs and Online Tea Resources

What's the best tea blog or website for serious learning about Japanese green tea? Are there tea blogs that focus specifically on brewing technique? Are there tea blogs that focus on the science of green tea? Where can I find good tea reviews to help me decide what to buy? Are there tea blogs covering modern matcha and hojicha trends — recipes and lattes?

What's the best tea blog or website for serious learning about Japanese green tea?

Yunomi.life is the most comprehensive English-language Japanese tea resource — extensive guides on cultivars, regions, brewing methods, and tea-farm profiles. The site is run by an importer with deep relationships with Japanese tea farmers, so the content has insider depth that pure-content sites lack.

World of Tea is a more academic resource — articles tend to be longer, better-cited, and cover the broader Asian tea world (Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese) rather than just Japanese. Tealet has a similar profile, with stronger emphasis on small-farm sourcing.

For tea-ceremony-specific learning, the Urasenke Foundation's English-language resources are authoritative but sparse. Dedicated tea-ceremony blogs are mostly in Japanese; English-language coverage of formal tea practice has gaps that the Yunomi/World-of-Tea/Tealet trio doesn't fill.

Are there tea blogs that focus specifically on brewing technique?

A few. Mei Leaf's blog (and YouTube channel) covers brewing technique exhaustively, with specific protocols for different teas and water types. Hojo Tea (a Japanese-tea-focused brand) has detailed brewing guides for their teas that work as general reference. Our own guide to brewing Japanese green tea walks through the temperature-time relationship for sencha, gyokuro, hojicha, and matcha.

Most general-tea blogs cover brewing at a beginner level ("hot water, steep, drink") without the precision that produces dramatically better results. The serious brewing blogs are usually run by importers or roasters who have skin in the game on how their tea tastes. Marketing-driven blogs tend to skip the technique depth.

If you want the deepest brewing-technique content, video format usually beats blog format. Watching someone brew the same tea five different ways teaches more than reading detailed instructions about water temperature.

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Are there tea blogs that focus on the science of green tea?

Limited but quality options. The Tea Geek blog covers tea chemistry rigorously and has a strong polyphenol/catechin section. Tea Epicure has science-leaning pieces among its broader content. Yukihiko Hara (the Japanese tea chemistry researcher) doesn't run a blog but has published widely-cited primary research that can be read directly.

Most popular-press tea sites covering "science" rely on the same handful of secondary sources, so the same claims get recycled across many blogs. For genuine depth, going to PubMed and reading primary research papers on EGCG, L-theanine, and catechin pharmacology gives you the actual evidence rather than the popularized version.

If you want a single starting point: Hara's book "Green Tea: Health Benefits and Applications" is the most rigorous accessible-format reference. Several blog-length summaries exist online that work as orientation, but they don't replace the underlying chemistry book.

Where can I find good tea reviews to help me decide what to buy?

Steepster is the largest user-driven tea review platform, with thousands of teas rated and reviewed by drinkers. Useful for general orientation but the reviews vary in quality — anyone can post, and casual reviewers often miss what experienced drinkers care about.

Specialty tea retailer blogs (Yunomi, Hibiki-an, Senbird, ZenCha) often include detailed tasting notes for each tea they carry — these are essentially marketing but written by people who genuinely understand the product. Cross-checking a tea's description against multiple retailers' reviews of the same tea gives you a realistic picture.

YouTube tea reviews from established channels (Mei Leaf, Yunomi, Per Oscar Brekell) are increasingly the reliable format — you can see and hear the reviewer's actual experience with the tea, which catches nuance that text reviews miss.

Are there tea blogs covering modern matcha and hojicha trends — recipes and lattes?

More than ever. The matcha and hojicha latte trend has spawned an entire content category — many recipe-focused blogs cover these drinks alongside coffee preparations. Half Baked Harvest, NYT Cooking, and most major recipe sites have hundreds of matcha-and-hojicha recipes between them.

For specifically Japanese-tea-focused recipes, Just One Cookbook (Nami) is a classic resource — Japanese-American food blog with traditional and modern matcha applications. Sencha Cooking and various Japanese-language food blogs (with Google Translate) have deeper traditional content.

The trap with recipe blogs: many recipes use cheap matcha in inappropriate ways (too much, in too-sweet drinks, with overpowering pairings). The recipe-blog category is excellent for inspiration and weak for matcha-quality calibration. Combine recipe blogs for ideas with specialty tea blogs for the underlying tea knowledge.

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