Tea Blog - Learn All About Tea — caffeine

Caffeine Without the Drop. Are you a coffee drinker looking to switch over to tea, but who still needs coffee-quantities of caffeine in your life?  Mate  (or Yerba Mate) may be the drink for you.  It’s a caffeinated drink from South America, but it isn’t coffee.  It’s brewed like tea, but it isn’t tea.  It’s a totally separate plant, with a totally separate story.   Order your Organic Roasted Yerba Mate here Mate (pronounced mah-tay, not like the British slang for friend) is the national infusion of Argentina.  It’s a major part of Argentinean and Paraguayan culture, and also popular...

Hi, I’m Aubrey.  I wanted to take a moment to step out from behind the curtain of Good Life Tea, and talk about tea from the perspective of my own personal experiences.  I’m a college student, and going into my sophomore year.  I’m also one of those people who just really wants to do all of the things, and do them well, all at the same time.  My semesters are busy, and I can’t afford to fall asleep while writing an important paper, or miss a class because I’m sick.  In high school, I maintained this feverish pace with coffee...

Practical Advice for Caffeine Lovers and Loathers For those of our readers who are caffeine intolerant, we carry many a decaf tea and caffeine-free tea (which are, by the way, not quite the same thing).  However, if you’re like me, you understand that tea, like all things, has a purpose, and that purpose is feeding a serious caffeine problem.  Or, I don’t know, you might have a healthy relationship with caffeine.  That works, too. Two Ways You Get Caffeine From Tea Regardless, tea has caffeine.  The amount of caffeine in your tea varies depending upon the region in which it...

Decaf VS. Caffeine Free Tea Many of our caffeine-sensitive customers come in and tell us that they would like decaf.  While decaffeinated tea does have a reduced quantity of caffeine, many of our customers are surprised to hear that decaf tea still contains some caffeine.  Decaffeinated teas tend to contain 1-2% of the caffeine of their still-caffeinated counterparts.  This means that each cup of decaf tea should contain about 2 mg per properly brewed cup.  When compared to a cup of decaf coffee ( 2-12 mg per cup), or a cup of regular coffee (75-200 mg, depending upon how it’s brewed),...