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If you’ve been one of our customers for a while now, you may be starting to have the same problem that I have-- you have a shelf full of old, empty tea tins.  They’re too small for some use for them to be immediately apparent, and yet too nice to simply throw away.  Surely, there must be a use for them.  Don’t despair, dear reader.  There is a use for them.  In fact, there are at least seven.     One- Re-fill Your Tea Tins! If you live near our store, you can bring your tin back in, and get...

Because We Care About Quality Many of our customers ask us why we don’t carry bagged tea.  It’s easy and convenient, and they consider themselves to be too busy to make loose tea a part of their lives.  The short answer is that it’s because we care about our customers, and the quality of our tea.  Tea bags constrict the leaves, preventing them from fully opening, and from fully imparting their flavor.  This isn’t a problem for most bagged tea, though, because it is already ground to dust.  Whole, loose-leaf tea has to be harvested more carefully in order to avoid...

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...