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A much neglected factor in the taste of your tea is water quality and temperature.   Municipal tap water is treated to be safe to drink.  The flavor varies from place and time of year.  Public drinking water must achieve certain standards to be deemed safe to drink.  During the filtration  process water is treated to removed particles and microbes.  During the final stage of the process, chlorine is added to kill off any left over microbes.  So the tap water you get is very safe to drink, but it may have a slight chlorine taste.  We recommend a simple...

Our customers occasionally ask us for tea bag and tea pyramids.  Our response is "Sorry we don't carry those." The reasons are quite simple.  Tea bags, while they are quite easy, they do not provide the best tea flavor possible. The tea in tea bag teas are called fannings, or tea dust, and they are produced mostly to give color and not flavor.  Open a tea bag up and look. You will find fine tea dust. It's a bit like comparing instant coffee to quality roasted coffee beans freshly grounded.  Tea bags, if you haven't guessed, is the instant coffee...

On our countries birthday, July 4,  American will drink Iced Tea and perhaps other drinks (hint beer), but did you know that America is the only country that drinks Iced Tea?  Sure its summer and nothing is nicer than a cold beverage, but which ingenious American invented it? >>> Why Do Americans Drink Iced Tea? <<< As with most tea tales, there is more myth than fact. But one thing is sure, iced tea needs ice and ice was not a common commodity before modern refrigerators. Ice was harvested in the winter and stored till summer.  Harvesting ice occurred where...

June is the beginning of the jasmine flower season.  Therefore, it feels like the appropriate time to talk about Jasmine Dragon Pearls Tea.   First, the tea leaves themselves are picked.  These leaves need to be picked in the early spring, but then are dried, and stored until summer, when the jasmine flowers are ready.  The jasmine flowers themselves are picked in the morning, when they are still tightly closed.  In the evening, the tea leaves are piled onto the flowers.  Then, when these night-blooming flowers open, they release their scent into the tea.  This process takes roughly four hours....