Steep It Loose — WHOLE LEAF TEA

I guess I never realized how spoiled I really am when it comes to tea. Not a tea drinker before working for a loose leaf tea company, I never suffered through the early stages of the tea bag. Luckily I was overwhelmed with a veritable treasure-trove of loose leaf tea my first day on the…

The other day I was describing to one of my accounts how important it was to put the right amount of tea leaves in for the amount of tea you wanted to make, e.g. 1 teaspoon of tea leaves for an 8oz cup of tea, 2 teaspoons of tea leaves for a 16oz cup of…

For those of us who live in Boulder, having one of our tea houses host the Rocky Mountain Tea Festival seems pretty normal and self evident. For those of you who don’t, I’ll explain why we wouldn’t be surprised about having this event in our hometown. Boulder is known for its outdoorsy, health conscious, green…

I’m intrigued… as a huge fan of modern architecture and tea. And as an admittedly biased Japanophile, with a movie collection of anime (favorites being Cowboy Bebop, all the Hayao Miyazaki films with Princess Mononoke at the top, Ghost in the Shell, Ninja Scroll, and classics like Grave of the Fireflies and Akira), lots of…