Had a great tea tasting for my company, Chicago Tea Garden in January. If you live in the Chicago area and would like to attend a tasting, please signup here. Thanks to Flickr user faraocious for taking these awesome photos! view the whole set by foraocious here.
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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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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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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: 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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A recap of last week’s tea related news: Sydney Paper Calls Tea “Medicine in a Cup”: http://tea.fm/r8fSpP Nepal’s Himalayan Tea Growers Turn a New Leaf: http://tea.fm/oKVAv8 London Finds Peace Over Tea- https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=261568193854371 Stone Brewery Releases Japanese Green Tea IPA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvosvdWfmas&feature=youtu.be
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A recap of last week’s tea related news: Indian Tea Output Rose 10.3% in June 2011: http://www.financialexpress.com/news/Quick-view/827465/ Indian Police Impound Fake Tea: http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/220/761736 [I wonder what kind of leaves they actually were!?] Starbucks Aims to Expand Tazo Tea Brand: http://www.nacsonline.com/NACS/News/Daily/Pages/ND0802113.aspx Stone Brewery’s Japanese Green Tea IPA Review: http://articles.boston.com/2011-08-01/lifestyle/29839261_1_stone-brewing-beer-troegs-brewing
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A recap of this week’s tea related news: Japanese tea ceremony held at Pearl Harbor: http://tea.fm/oOVVQh Japan Time: Serving Iced Matcha Tea: http://tea.fm/ru8FIe Tea becomes Kenya’s most important commodity: http://tea.fm/r5br0t Scientific American: Student Researchers Find Secret Tea Ingredients: http://tea.fm/r74MNY
read more »A Taiwanese tea company uses a fake Steve Jobs to advertise it’s Tong Yi Cha!
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** take 15% off your order at my tea shop: Chicago Tea Garden using code: HACKERS10 I recently sat down with Samuel Iglesias, tea-enthusiast (nerd) and first-time iPhone developer to discuss his journey in creating an app called “Tea.” Who helped you with the app? Tea is the result of a collaboration between me (@siglesias) [...]
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