Someone recently asked me how many tea companies exist right now that have made a commitment to only sell pure tea. I didn’t have an answer, so I started searching, and with the help of my friends on Twitter and Reddit, I came up with the following list. The rules for the list: the tea [...]
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As children, we were indoctrinated with the idea that tea was a part of a tea party, an activity that girls took part in during childhood with friends, family, and stuffed animals. For many, tea was something given to us by our mothers when we were sick, or a drink consumed by our grandmothers during [...]
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Smashing Pumpkins frontman, Billy Corgan announced today via his twitter account (@Billy) that he has plans to open a tea house on Chicago’s North Shore. Billy Corgan isn’t the first well known musician to jump into the tea business, electronic musician Moby opened a tea shop called “teany” in New York city in 2002. The [...]
read more »UPDATE: Free Shipping on Tea until January, and the last day to order to have your order (in the USA) by Christmas, is December 16. I’m running a cyber monday special at my tea shop, Chicago Tea Garden. Check it out. Business has been quite busy, which is awesome, but it also explains my lack [...]
read more »Tea Wares for your Christmas List Libre Tea Tea Glass The Libretea glass is a perfect, on-the-go solution for loose leaf tea, it’s the best glass tumbler I’ve found so far. I bought a bunch in China a few years back and tested them, but this one is pretty amazing. The middle section seen above [...]
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I read the TChing post on re-steeping tea this morning and I’d like to add my thoughts: How many times can you re-steep a tea? If you keep getting an enjoyable flavor out of the leaves, keep re-steeping. Everyone will have their own personal preference as to “how many times you can re-steep an anxi [...]
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Tuocha or “dome-shaped bowl tea” is a compressed tea, usually made of pu-erh. The shape resembles a bird’s nest and tuocha range in weight from 3g(seen above) up to 3kg or more. Tuocha are convex in order to help the tea dry out after processing. “The name for tuocha is believed to have originated from the round, top-like [...]
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Yerba mate is a tree. Not a tall one, but a moderately tall tree. In the farms they are not that big because they are pruned to make it easier to harvest, a similar method is used with the camellia sinensis plant for harvesting tea. The natives of this area, the Guaranies, discovered that they [...]
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A recap of last week’s tea related news: Green Tea Can Help Lower Cholesterol? NYT Breaks it Down for us: http://t.co/hsQgdIc Zealong’s tea eyes new markets: http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/5509462/Zealongs-tea-eyes-new-markets A lot of tea was grown in America: http://t.co/FMq7iKf Have you seen the new @Steepster Select? http://tea.fm/rlmJpt
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A recap of last week’s tea related news: Coffee, Tea Consumption Up: tea.fm/pWNAFd Technology boosts green tea production in Sri Lanka: http://t.co/Qxxd4X2 Hong Kong-style Milk Tea Competition: http://t.co/RmC1VyD Amazing Karmi Tea Canisters: http://t.co/9NNG662
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