Why Should You Stop Wasting Your Tea? Full Factory Tour In Sri Lanka

Alright The boss is here. Hello, very very nice to meet you. Thank you. Thank you. I would nice to meet you. Thank you It's fine, please Yeah, okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. How are you? How are you doing today? Good, good, very nice area and thanks to this gentleman taking me around and showing me everything Not so famous but famous in Sri Lanka, correct. Yes Thank you, very nice to meet you. It's been a pleasure. How are you brother? Okay, general manager, all right, thank you so much It's 2 tea. It's okay. Don't worry We are gonna go test out the tea. Yeah in the museum and we're gonna do a little shopping too. So yeah, how long Been that you are in this properties. Is this coming from? Yeah, this has been belonging to my family family For the last 130 140 or even 150 years Wow incredible and for How many years you are managing this place yourself? I maybe have been managing this for the last about 25 years 25 years. However right now The plantation is not looking at its best Because we have had a very severe drought So the plantation is not looking to do good, you know, but we are waiting for the rains. We have rains have not come but anyway Yeah So is there anything you want to know from me? Oh, no, I just wanted to meet you because the gentleman was talking about you So I was really curious to meet you. Thank you so much for your time And I think we're gonna just go to the museum area and test out different teas Yeah, and I want to buy some gifts for my friends too. So that would that would be amazing So I learned so much in the last one hour here about your property and everything you do guys which is incredible and I'm gonna post this video and hopefully it brings more tourists to your place and More people know about it. So do you do online shopping or shop to like you don't as I heard like you don't sell it Directly, it just goes from the online shop or how does it work your sales shop? the anybody who wants tea can send us an email with the email to and we can be We deliver the tea to them amazing amazing and we don't ask them for the money When they get the tea and they are satisfied with the tea they can pay. Wow, that's crazy. Really. That's that's very interesting That's a very risky business But you know what? We may have been doing this for the last 15 or 20 years. Uh-huh and Nobody has defaulted Wow, not one person had defaulted except one Russian guy No, no, he got into trouble. Uh-huh, you know for getting the tea. No, no, no He got into trouble because his business had collapsed. All right. All right, so he told me that this has happened So I said, okay you forget about it, but only one person has defaulted Wow So because you because you are a good person you attract good people to that's I think that's I think the concept behind the karma All right. Thank you so much. It's been a pleasure Nice to meet you and all the best of luck with the business and you're very nice to meet you. Thank you All right time for us to get to the museum and see what's happening here and also get the experience We go factory first or first factory, all right, we go to factory and How far is the factory? This is the factory. All right, then we don't have to travel so far so we managed to meet the gentleman to who is the boss and Been here with his family for over 140 years Which is incredible to know and this is our factory area on Dugoda on Dugoda Everyone Cinnamon Very interesting everyone. Hello. How are you boss? So what are we trying to do here? Wow incredible beautiful So just But you have to take out the inside too, no, no, no inside only this one No, no, no. No, I mean so first step is to clean up the outside Okay, not not the core not the core not the core only only one layer Wow Incredible Amazing so this is a process. Thank you. It's to tea How do no Goda Honda no Goda Honda gonna handle no Goda tea factory registered number MF one three eight two This is the factory area From the field we are bringing the tea Tea leaves and we are withering here. We are we will put here. All right, there are Giant three fans are there behind that wall. Uh-huh. So that will open that that will on then The moisture content of this tea leaves will be sucked out What will be sucked out moisture content water content water content from the leaves. So you are trying to dry it Yeah, it is not going to purely drain. Yeah, it is just removing the water All right, it is in a process of eight hours eight hours eight hours that leaves will be here every two hours It will be drifted. Mm-hmm Do you mix it with hand or do you mix it with the handle? All right Okay, it will be drifted and right after that. It will go to the Machine nice. So it's more like a hairdryer concept. Yeah underneath the Sucking sucking the air. All right. Okay. Wow, very interesting That's that's how you how you sell it out or ship it out This is still not dry is this 75 okay Incredible so this is the same concept as a left Giant fans, uh-huh exhaust fans. Okay, so they're circulating the air and then sucking all the The water from the seeds from the leaves Operates machine that are over 145 years old it's older than me No, no, I'm just saying it's older than me Older than us It's working living museum incredible. I'm very very excited to be here. And one of the things today the Area is not functioning. As I said people are on holiday Maybe it's actually a good thing because it would be very noisy here but right now we can explain you all the details and what's happening and I think we're gonna get a little Demonstration too, right? Oh nice Thank you You put the leaves there Will fall from here So what what exactly this process is doing process is done the grinding the leaves grinding the leaves so you put the dry version here or still it's Still green still green and it's having moisture content. All right So you just put it from here on the top top and it will be grinded here You know It's a wooden it's a wooden wooden blade wooden blade Wow Incredible and from here Grinded parts will be taken to here to sort out the bigger particles and small particles So when when this machine will work The smaller particles will fall here and bigger will be staying here again To put it there and more more grinding so is there a Correlation between small is better or biggest better or is there such a thing in the manufacturing process? It's later on later Okay, okay. Okay From here To get more more dry from there Oh, wow This is a simple technology Incredible That's amazing So just basically shaking it so All the small ones will be dropping down and then the big ones stay there And the big ones go again to the machine for more grinding and then probably come here afterwards again So these are old machinery here incredible We have a More machinery here. This is a fryer. So this is where it gets black. Yeah, is this the process? So you put it green here and it comes out So it drops out here, yeah, wow, that's a huge machine Don't open This is like a conveyor belt, okay, so it's a different levels Incredible so this one goes up slowly, right? And then what this does? Taking the big parts or just mixing it I'm pushing it Amazing thank you 130 Celsius Okay 130 Celsius Wow, really can I see that part too? So you have to use the real fire Any kind oh wow, that's incredible So the heat comes from the behind basically from the right and then the temperature Wow, so the inside this machine gonna be 140 degrees 130 degrees but much higher temperature You have a control system as well so not to burn it out Yeah, very careful. Yeah. Yeah. So probably a few degrees can burn out and ruin the whole thing All right You put the burning the wood here Incredible so these machines are also under 40 years 150 years from Ireland Wow from Ireland Wow, that's I just don't have any words to say it's it's incredible and this is where they are actually Keeping the dry wood for the fire. It makes you appreciate things much more like One cup of tea you are drinking in the morning or in the evening It's crazy that the whole process behind how many people are involved and what are the processes it takes to make it happen so we really take things really for guaranteed, but in reality everything matters and Even a cup of tea comes to your table in your kitchen. It's it has such a value and so much process behind it, too incredible Crazy I was just talking about you know When you have a cup of tea at home or when you go to restaurant for a tea and then you don't realize how much Process is behind Yeah, I mean if I have if I know that there's this machine behind all this process Belfast Ireland endless chain Sirocco probably this company is still around, right? Yeah So, how do you fix this stuff do you do you have the engineers that knows how to do it But it's a Sri Lankan. It's not not only Sri Lanka only Sri Lankans incredible Grading So here is already black T it's already So here you choose the best and from the verse and you know This is the five types of please let's put more. Yeah He's the expert. All right, brother. Tell me and after trying Yes in here to grading section for grading the tea grading means we are separating the sizes Different sizes different tasers and different names the big one is liquor is lighter, but the same leaves same process smaller one stronger So this is strong. Yeah as a test. Yeah, this is very strong and this one is my life I all right between strong to lighter different sizes different taser Uh-huh, all the name and the taste depend on the sizes same leaves same process This called BOPF broken orange pekoe fanny's is a strongest one. Uh-huh. The OPA is a lighter one The other teas are called OPA if BOP pickle like different names all name and the taste depend on the sizes and These are the not used for tea These are the stems we are removed from the tea. This one's this one's because this is the branches Yeah, automatically after drying the stems turning to brown I'm using a modern machine Wow and sending for the compost for the plantation make compost only the black one used for tea Incredible. So, can you tell me about the quality stuff? So what what defines that? It's a better tea and better Okay, we understand that it's a strong and more light quality same because same leaves same process But expensive tea is a big one, but the taste is very lighter smaller one strongest So light one is more expensive, yes, so is this the one you would be selling for higher price Black tea higher price is OPA the lighter one smaller one strongest, but cheap cheaper. Okay. Alright. Thank you so much very nice and You said that there is a machine that separates Separates the tea from the branch which oh this machine It doesn't look so modern but probably it's a younger than other machines, right? All right, brother, thank you so much you've been a very very kind to explain brother is to tea Thank you so much for your time and explanation and hopefully to see you later. Thank you all the best. Bye. Bye Incredible we had Great presentation from the factory to right now. We are going to the museum area to see what's up Hello everyone Handunugoda tea museum. Welcome guys Seems like there is nobody around here Again, we are getting a special treatment Wow, look at this setup looks incredible Looks like a wine testing Wow all these teas was a different packages here it's a sample on top so I'm guessing this is all correlated with the Type of a tea we're gonna try I in the video too. Yeah, but it's fine. You can you can turn off that possible We can I can watch it later. We can turn it off, please Yeah, but can we turn that off, please? it's gonna be a Full noisy. Wow, this is this picture is beautiful Look at this. These are the hard-working power behind all this tea and the economy of Sri Lanka Which is this is a beautiful picture Yes. Yes. I am. Hi. Hi. Nice to meet you, brother. How are you? Nice to meet you. You are on the video now Thank you, thank you, thank you, who are you what are you doing here? Tour guide. All right. Nice. I have a very special tour guide today. Okay. Yeah management is taking care of Thank you, brother. I really really appreciate it. Thank you. Very nice to meet you. What's your name? Fernando Fernando. Wow, that's a very Christian name. Yeah, because the thing is my hometown is me gumbo. Okay That's people you know, that's also some couple of years back. All right. All right Yes Wow, nice nice and my area called Little Rome little Rome Wow Amazing amazing. I have to come check it out. Yeah in a gumbo area, right? Nice. Nice. Thank you brother. Nice to meet you Thank you. All right. This is our last part right shopping and then testing. All right Testing first. Okay. So brother you explain me what we do. Yeah, I see there are so many options You tell me what to what to try No, you tell me what's the best what ones do you like I want to try like five White tea, all right, this is the one one thousand five hundred dollars. Yeah We are getting served with spoon even Because it's so valuable and we don't have to drink too much. So you have a more space to try out more stuff Wow, this is the way this is the one wow, this is the one they've been picking up like It's really amazing, so basically this is the small leafs we were talking about before they are picking up one by one They're actually using the scissors to pick it up. And this is the tea cost one thousand five hundred dollar per kilo Incredible. This is very good. It's super light. You don't necessarily feel like it's it's a tea So it's more feel like iced tea style I feel like so it's more like a water than a strong test How's it called silver silver needles You say needles or nettles needles silver needles This one has a little bit more stronger test Wow, it looks like a needles. That's why Looks like silver needles, that's the name where it comes from All right Thank you so much. This is already you had into the world. Yes. This is the one we had Saffir all along. Very nice So what's what's your top five that? Top five from here. Yeah, this one. Okay, and these are additions. Okay, we are adding the Yeah Flavors. Yeah, so the main ones would be here. So let me let me try and as a one Maybe a little bit darker and stronger tea. So this is a black tea already. Yeah, it's a black tea Yeah, but those ones are all for our white. Yeah All right Yeah Herman Rainforest tea. I love I love the packaging. It looks beautiful. Is this all Sri Lanka made? Is this like No, no, I mean the design and the packaging is this coming from outside or all from here Incredible look at this packaging guys the drawing and the packaging style. There's also a little text about the tea itself It's incredible Yeah, it looks like a book it looks like a Harry Potter book Yeah, it looks like a book and this one tests $70 for this package it's $70 Wow It's crazy beautiful, thank you so much and Let's do one more last one Yeah, I want to try maybe cinnamon. I feel like that's one. I'm gonna like this is all green tea These are all green tea. This is mocha. Okay, this is a mocha So this is a matcha tea green tea with pure And then here you have the what do you have here? No, no, we are putting the I put it there make it All right. I want to try the matcha Yeah It's to tea. Thank you All right Very nice so green tea matcha tea and the first ones we tried was a white teas and I tried one black tea And silver one too, and we are having the green tea right now Incredible. I wish I had more skills to explain you guys how things are testing But I am really not able Probably I would feel the same about the wine as long as it says wine I drink it and as long as it says tea I drink it, you know, so I cannot really have the specific Explanation of the texture in the test. So but all of them are great brother. I think This is cardamom cardamom tea This is very nice to how much is this one cost for example It's fine not important We have a ginger one here It doesn't have a price on top. It's alright brother. I think it's a it's enough. Why when I do a little shopping to Okay, let's try one last one masala tea I'm gonna turn into tea now too much this Thank you This is nice masala one is nice No, I think I I think I'm fine that's a very interesting packaging too now it's fine brother I think I'm done with the tea But I want to mention that this is a beautiful setup and nice presentation. So it's a very very interesting So what I what I should buy what should I get? What is this? It's a candle Oh, that's a very big I need something a small that I can give a present. Oh You have also some stuff here So what do you recommend me to get something small? whitey So do you have a small packages because I cannot pay 1,500 for it Virgin white tea I decide tea bags Okay, this is like you have to Dip it in and then you have to wait. Okay. So this one is $50. Yeah. All right What I'm gonna do you probably get one of this? Yeah, and that should be enough 45 bucks. Yeah, but I think this is better. No This also you can make minimum For four teas from one from one back. Yeah. No, I think this one will be better option So it can be mixed with other stuff to change the taste a little bit. So this is gonna be definitely present I'm not gonna open this up until I have the the delivery and This one was $70, right? This packaging is nice, too This one says $10 now Yeah So is it $10? But that package said $70 It's a $10 But there it says $70 Did I see that wrong No here. Ah I I saw this 69. No, it's a zero nine. Okay. Okay. All right, so maybe I'm gonna get this one, too All right. I'm gonna get two of this Gonna be $60 very expensive tea, but I have to contribute to the business Thank you so much guys. You've been a very nice Very helpful, especially to you. I really appreciate your time and you take me through all the processes explain me everything and I appreciate the whole team too. Thank you guys All right. We are getting some Receipt here. Nice All right. Can you tell me the price and the local money in rupees how much I need to pay you guys? Ah 10% discount. Wow. Thank you and There's also two dollars. I have to pay extra, right? Okay. So is that Yeah, it's including them, right It's fine, please add it there I'm gonna just pay for it How much yeah discount, all right. Thank you. Yeah rupees, please 18,000 how much is that? 20,000 Yeah, I don't I don't know if I have a change how much 2,000 No, I don't have it, please give me change and This is a 5,000 for the tip goes to the whole team here. Wow, there are so much money here Can I take the box? All right. Thank you so much. It's tutti guys Wait, wait, wait, wait. I have only two hands What is this information information about the team very nice About the Herman keys. All right. This is the contact details, right? So this is the address and the number and the email if you wish like But the property name is Herman, right? So if they search in the Google you will find it easily and they also taking the orders Just with the email if you want to get anything Yeah, there's also website. Thank you. Ah Here, all right Very smart man. You should you should you should promote him to better level on the go the tea plantation Herman T's.com Herman t's.com. Thank you, brother. You are a live advertisement for me Thank you so much guys, I'm gonna finalize the video right here Yeah, sure, but later let me finish the video first and then after I'm gonna write it So this is the whole experience from the tea plantation guys. Thanks so much for watching And thank you guys for your time and energy been super super nice Yeah, I will check it out later first I want to finish the video see you guys in a while until next time from Sri Lanka