Tempest in a Teacup

Revisionist History

Pushkin Industries

History, Society & Culture

4.7 • 62K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Bohea, the aroma of tire fire, Mob Wives, smugglers, “bro” tea, and what it all means to the backstory of the American Revolution. Malcolm tells the real story on what happened in Boston on the night of December 16, 1773.

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0:00.0	What do you want to start with?
0:12.2	We have to start with green.
0:14.2	Just like if we were doing wines we would start with whites and then go to reds.
0:17.8	I don't think we should blow out our palettes too early.
0:21.0	I mean, if you do want to get to most of this, do you have time?
0:27.9	Not long ago a man named Tony Gebbley came to my apartment.
0:31.8	Young guy, dark hair, group in New Jersey.
0:35.0	He runs something called tea epicure, which does for specialty tea what Robert Parker
0:39.8	did for wine, analyzes it, and rates it.
0:44.2	Tony had a big backpack with him and carefully unwrapped its contents.
0:48.4	A thermometer to make sure we didn't overheat the water.
0:51.4	A mini Chinese tea pot called a guayuan.
0:54.7	Some special Norwegian tea cups and tea, six kinds.
0:59.3	Green, yellow, white, ulong, black, and fermented.
1:03.8	Oh, and a seventh kind.
1:06.4	We'll get to that.
1:07.5	So this is called Lu Bao.
1:09.4	Lu Bao.
1:10.4	And it's from Guangxi Province and this tea was produced in 2009.
1:16.0	Do you have to steep for a minute tea for a long time?
1:19.0	No, typically not.
1:20.6	I mean, it instantly colored the water.
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