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Hey everyone! I've got some time on my hands now that my classes are settling down, and I'm using it to start a traveling tea box ( Read more... )

I've recently become aware of a tea shop in my area, so I went to investigate and saw that they have both bulk tea blends and bulk tea ingredients. I'd LOOOOVE to make my own tea blends, but I've no idea where to start, so... Does anyone know of any tea recipes? I tend to like stuff that's not overwhelmingly bitter, so that's my only "requirement ( Read more... )

So my friend and I have fallen in love with pu-erh, but it's been at tea shops that aren't exactly using quality pu-erh. We've also had to make do with poor quality tea bags. We were at a Chinese tea ceremony/tasting years ago and had good quality pu-erh, so we know we love the stuff. However, getting back to that original shop is extremely ( Read more... )

Can't recall if anybody posted this yet -- http://steep.it/ , a little web based tea timer. Plenty of tea timer software out there, but it's so hard to tell safe from dodgy in the downloads. So I like this one!

Adagio Teas is doing something so cool for Earth Day that I have to share it. They've set aside a few plots of land where you can choose what tea you want to grow (to help the whole "global warming" thing probably) and where you want to grow it, choose a plot, and if you keep up the Virtual Care for three years you get tea from your very own plant ( Read more... )

So I have a steepster account (a sort of tea blog/twitter/log site for those who don't know about it. www.steepster.com for more info). My steepster account is linked to my twitter account. So invariably whenever I make a steepster post, it goes onto twitter and some bot or another suddenly friends me within seconds ( Read more... )

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It actually never occurred to me to try blending tea until I tried a couple of blends at Teavana.

The first one is a blend of White Arurvedic Chai & Samurai Chai Mate:
I actually had trouble getting into black chai teas, which is what I was initially introduced to...even though I normally like the mixture of spices in them.  I'm not sure what it was ( Read more... )

All summer I've been making tea with a couple of big regular decaf tea bags and a few mint leaves from the garden. Now that an ice storm has taken out the mint, I used a tea seep filled with mulling spices. Quite tasty!