Steep It Loose

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 your first tea tasting it’s helpful to taste the four different types of single estate teas to better understand the basic varieties: white, green, oolong and black. Once you’ve had an introductory tasting, it’s fun to move on to a tasting featuring only one type of tea but that is another blog post…How to…

It’s been more than a year now, since I have had the pleasure to be guest-blogging for the T-Ching site, a favorite site for many tea lovers. Beautiful in its simplicity of design, and more profound in its pursuit of tea information on all levels – gastronomic, scientific, social, literary… you name it, and they…