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Tea leaves needs room to steep.  Related Blog Post Why Does My Tea Get Bitter? How can I avoid it?   When you steep high-quality, loose tea leaves, they expand.  In order to allow these leaves to brew to a high-quality tea, they need to have space to expand fully.  In general, the larger your infuser is, the better your tea will be.   With most tea balls and novelty infusers, tea leaves are packed too tightly to expand fully.  This means that the water cannot circulate around them properly, and the flavor of your tea will be lacking some of...

It’s a better alternative to calorie-rich drinks and snacks. In our shop, we get a lot of questions about healthy tea is.  At Good Life Tea, we try to downplay the health angle, and focus more on taste.  This is partially because we don’t want to come across that that weird hippie shop that will recommend you herbs for all of your various ills, and partially because we can’t really confirm too much about how healthy tea is, and don’t want to be sued for making claims that later turn out to be untrue.  This post covers what we can...

We get a lot of questions in our shop about tea storage.  People want to know, when they buy in bulk, or if they don’t drink tea all that often, how long their tea will stay fresh for, and what happens to old tea.  Here at Good Life Tea, we thought we’d make a master list of all of the major questions we get regarding the storage of your tea. Will my tea go bad? Unless your tea gets wet in some way (moisture is the enemy of tea), it will not go bad.  You will never open an old...

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),...