Tea Tips
Grades of Tea
Like the wine ratings scale, tea has grade levels. If you see random letter groupings at the tea shop you know you’ve got a good supplier that understands higher quality teas. The different tea grades are (from lowest…
Use fresh water
When brewing tea, you will want to use fresh water in your tea kettle – don’t reuse previously boiled water. I’m all about being ecologically minded but this is one case where…
Warming the pot
Before brewing tea in your dainty teapot you might want to run hot water through it first. You just pour some hot water in, swirl it around, you can even…
afternoon tea not high tea
You may hear others (I know it’s not you) mistakenly call afternoon tea “high tea.” It’s understandable because it does seem a rather highfalutin’ affair but it is incorrect to…
The tea leaf
All tea comes from the same plant: Camellia Sinensis – a cousin to our Camellia Japonica. All of the varieties of tea (black, oolong, green and white) are the result of the…
Where to buy tea in Huntsville, AL
Drinking tea is really growing in popularity! I had to stop and do a double take at the Madison Farmers Market this summer where I discovered Samovar Gardens Tea out…
Where it all started
Way back when, in college, I first really started getting serious about tea. I really started drinking it in college and at my first “real” job. I remember my coworkers…