Eighty Degrees Magazine

21/08/2026

What do you think? Does this stop you from drinking certain teas?

19/08/2026

Images by edvinasbruzas

18/08/2026

06/08/2026

From Eighty’s travels in Guangxi.
The heat made us slow. The scent of jasmine everywhere. Once picked, the magic happens at night — the flower opens and steeps into the leaf.

03/08/2026

28/07/2026

Tim d’Offay has run Postcard Teas in London for over twenty years and knows pu’er about as well as anyone outside China.

Thirty years ago a Hong Kong dealer described a tea to him as the Queen Mother’s armpit sweat, and spent a week trying to pull him fully in. It didn’t take.

Tim has stood one foot in pu’er ever since — close enough to know it, never quite swallowed. In Issue 18 he explains why that’s the honest place to stand.

21/07/2026

Issue 18. Edge.

It's a funny thing — edge. It can be a point of transition, where one thing becomes another. It's where change happens, where a point of view shifts. It can be one thing for one person and something entirely different for another. Conflict happens there, but also understanding, a new world view. Nothing is 100% certain and ten minds will have ten different opinions. It can be challenging to dive into someone else's world head on. Slowly chipping at it makes it more digestible, just like one doesn't start hacking at a tea cake in the middle.

This issue runs along that vein — how things may seem, and how they often aren't.

A tattoo artist bares his skin to tell us about a Japanese tradition that keeps its finest work hidden under clothing. A teahouse in Portland pours tea a river's width from the tear gas. A Congolese chef and an Italian one invent dishes at 3 a.m. that fit into neither of their traditions. A monastery in Chengdu promised tea and ran on discipline that challenged even the most devoted. Elephants roam through Assam, navigating a landscape the water keeps taking back. And the reason half the world says tea and the other says cha, which mostly comes down to who left by sea.

Issue 18 is out now.

14/07/2026

Designers plan flagships. Satoshi Kuwata wants a teahouse — a SETCHU store in Kyoto where clothes hang beside incense and fitting rooms are built for conversation, not mirrors. Upstairs, a room or two. You could stay the night.

From Issue 16, The Crease Becomes Creation. Photography by silvan borer.

12/05/2026

Photographers often try to immortalise a special, decisive moment. It is what is expected from great photography. Faizal Westcott also finds interest in the aftermath.

“Sometimes it’s after the moment settles — when everything goes still, when you pause to think and simply observe — that things begin to feel clearer. That’s when beauty in the ordinary reveals itself.”

Five images from Issue 17. Tokyo and Kyoto. Nothing dramatic.

Issue 17 — Stillness.