Steep It Loose — STEEPWARE®

Greetings, friends. Maria, Jessica, and I are back into the swing of things after attending the World Tea Expo in Las Vegas. It was great trip (pretty darn hot though), we had a lot of fun and met a lot of people. Overall, it was wonderful to put faces to the names of our customers,…

Having lost my old yixing teapot to a roommate’s clumsy hands, I think I’m in the market for a new one. In case you’re unfamiliar with yixing clay teapots, here’s a particularly artful one donning a cicada (a Chinese symbol of life after death): I’m more interested in traditional yixing shapes, but I had to…

Those of us who are tea fanatics, and/or drink tea like our lives depend on it, all have our own little tricks for getting our fix on the road. How many times have TSA guys been all over my “scissor” tea ball… (I now carry my X-ray stealthy TUFFY TEA STEEPER silicone infuser!)… And we…

Today’s blog is an introduction to an incredible Platoon, currently serving in Afghanistan. These tough guys (pictured with their Tuffys) expressed interested in loose leaf tea and we jumped at the chance to make their mission feel a little more comfortable. Sergeant Castaldo specifically spoke of him and his men enjoying Rooibos, Oolong, Pu’erh, and…