STAFF CHRISTMAS CHALLENGES - The Games are ON!

We love to taste tea and challenge ourselves through blind tastings. Our team like the challenge too and four of them stepped up to take on the annual Tea Games!
TEAS MENTIONED
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Ancient Haze: meileaf.com/p/tea-anhc
Fig Butter Black: meileaf.com/p/tea-fbuc
Jelly Juice Vampire: meileaf.com/p/tea-jjvc
Antique Street Market: meileaf.com/p/tea-asmc
Royal Peach Orchid: meileaf.com/p/tea-phoc
Eight Immortals: meileaf.com/p/tea-eioc
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  • @AZar027
    @AZar0276 ай бұрын

    Please make this type of video more frequently! It is so educational to understand differences and similarities of tea types and helps deepen tea appreciation.

  • @Laura-je2uw
    @Laura-je2uw6 ай бұрын

    Penny is so cute, love her character. All of them did really well, bravo. I could learn a lot❤❤❤ and bravo to don for this setup, it must have been a lot of work to set up and film this challenge - really appreciate the effort you put into your videos❤

  • @MeiLeaf

    @MeiLeaf

    6 ай бұрын

    Thank you - it is a fair amount of work but I love these videos too

  • @jscottp77
    @jscottp776 ай бұрын

    These anual tea challenges amongst your employees are fun to watch! Keep it up.

  • @Moonwavey
    @Moonwavey6 ай бұрын

    In Penny's defense, isn't Cloud Lake literally grown in the clouds, which has a similar effect to the shading that Japanese growers like to do?!

  • @jcblackhat
    @jcblackhat6 ай бұрын

    Epic work from Sam! His recommendations at the teahouse this weekend were SPOT on. 👏🏻

  • @mjbutterworth
    @mjbutterworth6 ай бұрын

    As a coffee educator, I always emphasize the importance of blind tasting with my students, so this was a lot of fun to watch! I've been looking for better resources for tea and I'm glad I found your channel!

  • @doryman3
    @doryman36 ай бұрын

    Great video! Of course, the editing is superb, the players are VERY entertaining, and BTW, the new wall is fantastic! The effort, Don, must be enormous, so THANK YOU for working so hard to entertain us! 🌱🥃🌱

  • @InsistentlyInterdisciplinary
    @InsistentlyInterdisciplinary6 ай бұрын

    Adrian's tasting notes were hilarious in this video. I had the pleasure of having him explain his notes to me in the shop the other day during a trip of mine to London - on which Mei Leaf was a delightful stop!

  • @charlesperez9976
    @charlesperez99766 ай бұрын

    I have only just started to watch this video. I’m ‘team Penny’ all the way!

  • @charlesperez9976

    @charlesperez9976

    6 ай бұрын

    Ok,Sam won,congratulations to him! I am still ‘team Penny’,she’s going to nail it next time. My advice to Penny: Arrange to have Sam kidnapped for a day or two,during the next challenge. Just sayin’…

  • @Annoying_Customer
    @Annoying_Customer6 ай бұрын

    Man this was fun! Thanks everyone, thank you Don! I would thoroughly enjoy seeing tea challenge videos more often, I love when you and Celine do them live. Cheers cheers cheers!

  • @theoldkid5725
    @theoldkid57256 ай бұрын

    Respect!George and Adrian are so passionate about this... Penny did a great job as a newbie in this challange Sam is so focused and sorted in his tasting notes,I am impressed with each episode he shows presence. THANK YOU! :-)

  • @mscavsfan
    @mscavsfan6 ай бұрын

    I would love to see more challenges during the year! This was great!

  • @lukasg429
    @lukasg4296 ай бұрын

    Love the staff games. More please! :))

  • @wildebeestwright
    @wildebeestwright6 ай бұрын

    This was really fun! And informative too. I’d love to see more of these

  • @luisguhong
    @luisguhong6 ай бұрын

    Fantastic video. Super fun and educational.

  • @YagrumBagarn
    @YagrumBagarn6 ай бұрын

    More staff games like these are very fun to watch also I would love to see Don figuring out in tea testing games 😄

  • @YouBrewKombucha
    @YouBrewKombucha6 ай бұрын

    Such fun! Cloud Lake is my favorite under-the-radar sleeper on the site, so interesting to see how two different brewing approaches yield fairly similar results. Very cool to see how variables like temperature and brewing time affect the strength of the extraction. Love these challenges, and always learn a lot. Would definitely be down to see more of these throughout the year. I'm sure this is difficult to implement but maybe even sending out tea games to people who want to purchase and play along! Maybe for the Wednesday crew? You'd make the world's first interactive tea game show??

  • @lesbaboustrotteurs2733
    @lesbaboustrotteurs27333 ай бұрын

    Great fun! 😄 Thanks to all of you! Yes, would love to see more videos like this one. It is a lot of fun as well as very interesting. Congratulations to all the players! Hope to pass by your shop one day and meet you in person. By the way, is Sam the brother of Céline? He has exactly the same way of expressing himself... 🤔

  • @mrijaty3994
    @mrijaty39946 ай бұрын

    Yes, love it. Very enjoyable! Keep them coming; as well as more educational videos from you!

  • @leeennise.a3338
    @leeennise.a33386 ай бұрын

    The huangpian test really surprised me. Seriously consider buying some. The "farmer's tea" i think is an interesting add; especially if the price is right

  • @doryman3

    @doryman3

    6 ай бұрын

    Huang pian is my jam. Since I am terrible at discerning the tasting notes that the Mei Leaf experts can identify, I find yellow leaves fit my needs - great puerh taste without the sticker shock. Now that said, I still buy a lot of high quality cakes, but almost all go into storage. Hopefully, someday they will WOW me! 🌱🥃🌱

  • @benmoore7946
    @benmoore79466 ай бұрын

    I love Penny and Adrian!

  • @mattlm64
    @mattlm646 ай бұрын

    "Completed 53 minutes after final clue release" That's a bummer, as I originally completed it within 15 minutes but it didn't register. I had to do it again.

  • @MeiLeaf

    @MeiLeaf

    6 ай бұрын

    Any completes before 59 minutes after countdown will get full raffle tickets assigned to them

  • @mattlm64

    @mattlm64

    6 ай бұрын

    @@MeiLeaf OK great thanks. It was a good game. Perhaps next year shouldn't have as much time pressure to avoid problems.

  • @SimpleSlyman
    @SimpleSlyman6 ай бұрын

    Don will you do any samples of the special release? I would like to try it but not a cake.

  • @MeiLeaf

    @MeiLeaf

    6 ай бұрын

    Hi. It is unlikely as we have so few cakes available but if we still have some stock left after New Year then we may break up one cake for samplers.

  • @milusehalkova2729
    @milusehalkova27296 ай бұрын

    Thank you guys, this was so much fun to watch. Wishing you all beautiful holiday season ❤🎄🥳

  • @brianhuwe967
    @brianhuwe9676 ай бұрын

    Always my favorite video of the year, and this year’s is the best one yet.

  • @Lau_rao
    @Lau_rao6 ай бұрын

    These games would be so impossible for me, im so bad with tasting notes etc and its stressful with the time 🐌the staff were so good at finding the answers even if they struggled I'm a little jealous 😂

  • @dnmotley
    @dnmotley6 ай бұрын

    More staff challenges would be welcome. And welcome, Penny!

  • @iBuzzinga
    @iBuzzinga6 ай бұрын

    Just finsished the last medal 30min before the final clue 😅 I had a bunch of fun doing these, thanks a lot for putting so much effort and time in these!

  • @MeiLeaf

    @MeiLeaf

    6 ай бұрын

    Well done! Thanks for playing

  • @jang.1185
    @jang.11856 ай бұрын

    Watching the video while drinking a Find Your Sunshine 2. What a nice evening. ❤ Thank you all.

  • @katjugglerz
    @katjugglerz6 ай бұрын

    Loved this video! Tea competition!

  • @RosethornMage
    @RosethornMage6 ай бұрын

    Very fun and educational! Would love to see more of these. Especially if using the current catalog of teas so we can purchase and try along with. Maybe list the teas used in the video near the beginning? That way, we at home can pause and prepare tea to try with you guys. It would make understanding some of the notes easier IMO.

  • @rincosmerta
    @rincosmerta6 ай бұрын

    I think you need to drop one more additional clue next Saturday. You should've anticipated the heavy traffic that will take a toll on the site! Last year all was fine...

  • @MeiLeaf

    @MeiLeaf

    6 ай бұрын

    We bought extra capacity but clearly not enough so we doubled it and everyine could access at 13.42 so this is the new ZERO for raffle tickets.

  • @SimpleSlyman

    @SimpleSlyman

    6 ай бұрын

    13.46! Happy with that

  • @die6705
    @die67056 ай бұрын

    i love you guys

  • @doryman3
    @doryman36 ай бұрын

    So the pu-boys have to wait another year to see which one of them is the best! And do we have to add a third pu-boy chair? 🌱🥃🌱

  • @TheCollector87

    @TheCollector87

    6 ай бұрын

    no

  • @mattporter6624
    @mattporter66246 ай бұрын

    These videos are definitely some of my most favorite. I think it would be fun to do team challenges (mainly because I want to see the tension between Adrian and George haha). Put them on the same team or different, both would be equally as entertaining.

  • @shroomyfeelings
    @shroomyfeelings6 ай бұрын

    Site is down. Cant do reality carousel.

  • @saiya769

    @saiya769

    6 ай бұрын

    Yep, down for everyone

  • @shroomyfeelings

    @shroomyfeelings

    6 ай бұрын

    Thats a pity. I've been looking forward to this...@@saiya769

  • @MeiLeaf

    @MeiLeaf

    6 ай бұрын

    working

  • @viktorbezvidkhodko2199
    @viktorbezvidkhodko21996 ай бұрын

    Hi. Do you have videos about Taiwan tea

  • @viktorbezvidkhodko2199

    @viktorbezvidkhodko2199

    6 ай бұрын

    And Japanese black tea kotcha

  • @jochumkoot779
    @jochumkoot7796 ай бұрын

    So site has been down: first 504 error then 502 and now 503, so no1 will win anything or how does this get resolved?

  • @shroomyfeelings

    @shroomyfeelings

    6 ай бұрын

    It seems, some people were able to complete the game...

  • @jochumkoot779

    @jochumkoot779

    6 ай бұрын

    yeah i kinda hope the enetry system will get nullified and every just gets 1 entery because it would not be fair if some people who got relly lucky get more then some1 who has been trying to even try and guess for the past 30 minutes@@Adam-wz5ps

  • @MeiLeaf

    @MeiLeaf

    6 ай бұрын

    We are taking 13.42 as our time for countdown hitting zero as this was the time that we managed to double the capacity and all users would have been able to access the final clue.

  • @rincosmerta
    @rincosmerta6 ай бұрын

    Just completed and didn't register. I have to do it again starting from the double card images :)

  • @shroomyfeelings

    @shroomyfeelings

    6 ай бұрын

    Yes. I had to do that twice, too.

  • @MeiLeaf

    @MeiLeaf

    6 ай бұрын

    We are issuing extra raffle tickets - apologies

  • @rincosmerta

    @rincosmerta

    6 ай бұрын

    ​@@MeiLeafok but I already completed it after I posted this comment. I got issued 8 entries already. What does this mean? Will I get more entries or will I remain with just those 8?

  • @guymcqueen6538
    @guymcqueen65386 ай бұрын

    Hilarious! Sam is m'boy 🏅

  • @TonySkinnerSound
    @TonySkinnerSound6 ай бұрын

    Adrian is my favorite!

  • @kimmybarnjani1266
    @kimmybarnjani12666 ай бұрын

    I once drank a puerh tea that tasted like horse dung, just rancid small and taste.. some f these chinese teas are horrible

  • @jcblackhat
    @jcblackhat6 ай бұрын

    Epic work from Sam! His recommendations at the teahouse this weekend were SPOT on. 👏🏻