New Beginnings

  Hello all those out there in this large (and small) tea world!  Welcome to the inaugural post for this blog, Scotttea.  My name, as the title may lead you to assume, is Scott.  I am a resident of San Francisco and avid tea drinker.  Partially why I am beginning a blog is because, like most (if not all bloggers) I am just looking for a way to put my words out there to the proverbial "sounding board" of the web but, also, looking to see if such words might lead to something greater.

  Living in San Francisco and being into tea, I've noticed several things.  One, San Francisco and the Bay Area seems to be a mecca for tea drinkers.  And, two, there seems to be a palpable tea "ethos" within the Bay Area.  Having worked at one of the busiest tea shops in the city, I have seen and met many of these "tea people" 茶人, and have personally become part of what seems to be a larger "tea community."  And yet, this community seems still within its infancy, still within its developing stages, and not yet at the point that it can grasp at its totality.  In short, it lacks a cohesiveness that can yet enable it to be defined as a whole.

  I am curious to see how this community of Bay Area (and, hopefully, Californian) tea drinkers evolves.  I am blogging in the hopes to observe and chronicle its evolution through the eyes of one person and, with any luck, maybe help it further develop and grow.  Stay tuned for I assure you there will be much more to come as I begin to write on the multitude of local teahouses, tea shops, events, styles, and ways that define Californian tea culture.