What is a Tea Brick and is the tea drinkable?
Centuries ago, the inventive Chinese, who invented the earliest banking system with coins and paper bank notes, found that their currency had no value when trading with people in far-away Mongolia and Tibet. Their solution to this problem was to turn their most valued product – tea – into bricks that were evenly scored and could be broken to make change. Today, these sculpted tea bricks with traditional Chinese motifs are used for decoration. We don’t recommend brewing tea from tea bricks. However, Stash Tea does offer more than 200 teas in our online store so you’re sure to find many that appeal to you. Tip: If you choose to purchase a tea brick you may want to apply a coat of clear lacquer to protect it from humidity. BACK TO TOP What do the abbreviations after some teas mean; i.e., FTGFOP, OP? These initials refer to tea grading, one of the most misunderstood subjects concerning tea. To begin with, tea grades are not standardized worldwide. Also, a tea’s grade does not necessarily i
