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16 shots / 8 teas / made for home espresso machines

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CHAURA / TEA SHOTS 001

Your espresso machine has a new job.

Pull real tea into a concentrated shot, then finish with milk and ice. Eight teas, portioned at 6g, make café-style milk tea on the machine already on your counter.

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> Real ground tea. No new brewer. No tea scale before breakfast.

CHAURA Founder’s Kit pouch with individually wrapped jasmine green tea shots
Founder’s Kit6 shots / 3 teas / $10.95
6g pre-portioned|12oz milk-tea recipe|~10 home machines tested|0 new brewers

01 / TASTING_KITS

Start with the cup that sounds like you.

Three expressive teas or five wider-ranging profiles. Together, the two kits make one complete tour of CHAURA’s first eight teas.

Olive CHAURA Founder’s Kit pouch with individually wrapped tea shotsBest first pull
Start here6 shots · 3 teas

Founder’s Kit

$10.95

Six shots that move from bright jasmine to deep roast and honeyed orchid.

  • 01Jasmine Green B ×2
  • 05Da Hong Pao ×2
  • 04Phoenix Dan Cong ×2
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Individually wrapped ivory CHAURA 6g tea shot sachetsAll five discovery profiles
Taste wider10 shots · 5 teas

Discovery Kit

$20.95

Ten shots spanning silky oolong, fragrant jasmine, mellow black tea and warm roast.

  • 02Jin Xuan Milk Oolong ×2
  • 08Jasmine Big Tippy ×2
  • 06Ceylon Black Tea ×2
  • 03Chinese Black Tea ×2
  • 07Roasted Tie Guan Yin ×2
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FULL / 08Taste the complete collectionFounder’s Kit + Discovery Kit · 16 shots · all 8 teas$31.90Meet all eight →

Tea shots only. A home espresso machine with a removable portafilter and basket is required.

02 / EIGHT_TEAS

Eight teas. Not eight syrups.

Choose by the feeling you want in the cup. Each profile is designed to stay recognizable after ice and milk.

CORE daily favoritesSIGNATURE most expressiveSELECT deeper aromatics
01Core

Bright & floral

Jasmine Green B

fresh jasmine / clean green tea / bright finish

The crisp, refreshing jasmine cup—the easiest first tea shot.

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02Core

Creamy & floral

Jin Xuan Milk Oolong

金萱烏龍

soft milk aroma / gentle florals / smooth finish

Silky and softly aromatic when you want milk tea to feel plush, not heavy.

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03Core

Mellow & sweet

Chinese Black Tea

中國紅

malt / baked sweet potato / cocoa

A round, naturally sweet black-tea direction with enough body for milk.

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04Signature

Honeyed & aromatic

Phoenix Dan Cong

Ya Shi Xiang / 鴨屎香

honeyed orchid / ripe fruit / long finish

The most fragrant cup in the collection—expressive even after milk and ice.

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05Signature

Roasted & mineral

Da Hong Pao

大紅袍

deep roast / cocoa / mineral finish

A darker, roast-led milk tea for anyone who usually reaches for coffee.

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06Signature

Floral & rounded

Ceylon Black Tea

錫蘭韻香

floral fruit / rounded sweetness / smooth finish

Familiar black-tea comfort, lifted by fruit and a cleaner finish.

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07Select

Nutty & caramelized

Roasted Tie Guan Yin

焙火鐵觀音

toasted macadamia / warm caramel / honeyed finish

Roasted, nutty and quietly sweet—the after-dinner milk tea.

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08Select

Lush & floral

Jasmine Big Tippy

vivid jasmine / soft sweetness / rich florals

A fuller jasmine expression with a fragrant finish that keeps unfolding.

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03 / RECIPE.md

From sealed shot to milk tea in three moves.

The recipe is specific on purpose: enough concentration for the tea to meet milk without disappearing.

01

Load

Open one 6g tea shot and add it to your espresso basket.

02

Pull

Extract 120–150g of concentrate; about 130g is our everyday target.

03

Finish

Add about half a scoop of ice, then milk to the 11.5oz cup line.

chaura / 12ozv0.1
tea shot      6g
concentrate   120–150g
daily target  ~130g
ice           ~1/2 scoop
milk          to 11.5oz line
sweetness     your call

> Built for milk. Easy to tune to your machine.

~10home espresso machines

FRIENDS_KITCHENS.log

Repeated beyond one countertop.

Friends pulled the core tea-shot workflow on around ten different home espresso machines. That is the evidence behind our repeatability claim—not a guarantee that every basket behaves identically.

  • ✓ removable portafilter
  • ✓ removable basket
  • ↻ quick rinse after each shot

04 / OUR_STORY

First, a market shelf. Then a sourcing trail.

We were not trying to invent another appliance. We wanted better milk tea at home, and the pressure-and-temperature platform was already on the kitchen counter.

The first experiments used whatever tea we could find on a market shelf. Grind it. Pull it. Add milk. Some cups were weak, some bitter, and too many left fine tea particles behind.

That pushed us upstream: better sourcing, controlled 6g portions, and teas selected for the concentrated format. We tasted for what survived milk—not what sounded impressive on a label.

Then the setup left our kitchen. Friends tried it on their machines, and their countertops became the first CHAURA test network.

That is why the collection begins with eight—not eighty.

CHAURA individually portioned tea shots arranged beside loose jasmine tea
Sourcing → portioning → friends’ kitchensbatch 001

05 / PEEK_INTO_THE_FUTURE

The geek layer is still here.

CHAURA started as a series of kitchen experiments, so we kept one piece of the lab alive. Watch the tea flow, then reveal the modern mark hiding underneath.

> This is the easter egg. The product comes first.

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FIRST BATCH / OPENING SOON

Pick the tea. Keep the machine.

The first tasting kits are being prepared now. Compare all eight profiles, choose your starting set, and come back when the first checkout opens.

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06 / FAQ.md

Before your first pull.

The short version: real tea goes in, concentrated tea comes out, milk tea happens next.

01Is this instant tea or a pod?

Neither. Each shot is real ground tea, pre-portioned at 6g for concentrated extraction in an espresso basket.

02Will it work with my espresso machine?

The core workflow has been repeated across around ten home espresso machines in founder-and-friends testing. You need a removable portafilter and basket; exact flow still varies by machine and basket.

03What comes in a tasting kit?

Individually portioned tea shots only. Your espresso machine, portafilter, basket, milk, ice and sweetener are not included.

04Does every tea taste good with milk?

That is the point of the eight-tea edit. We chose profiles that stay distinct in a concentrated shot—from fresh jasmine and silky Jin Xuan to roasted oolong and round black tea.

05How do I clean up?

Knock out the tea promptly, then rinse the basket and group area. Ground tea can leave fine residue, so a quick rinse after every shot is part of the routine.