Organic tea
All posts in the Organic tea categorySpecial Deals for September
So call me slow, but over the past week I’ve seen a few different tea sellers promoting some great specials. If you’re looking to buy some tea, now’s the time!
- Mighty Leaf Tea
are giving a 25% discount off selected black teas. This offer runs out on September 25, so you have to act quick. If you’re looking for a good place to start, try their Organic Breakfast Tea.
- Numi Organic Tea
is offering a 25% discount on their flavoured pu-erh teas. Get 2 boxes of their pu-erh tea for $14.95 when you quote Coupon Code NMP99. This offer runs out after September 30.
- The Tea Spot are donating 10% of all their sales in September to prostate cancer survivors.
Organic Breakfast Tea by Mighty Leaf Tea (review)
The nature of a breakfast tea is to be robust. It is there to awaken. And it needs to be able to handle a drop of milk.
As a result, many lower grade breakfast teas tend to be brutish. You feel awake after drinking them, but your lips are puckered, your mouth is dry and you had to choke down those last few sips. Inevitably, the tea used for this is the scraps ? the dust or fanning that remains after factories have pushed out the higher end teas. Because the tea is so small, it infuses quickly; but it also lacks the character you will find in teas made with larger bits of leaf.
Tea: A Photographic Journey from the Garden to the Cup
Kilinoe: A lettuce garden turned tea farm on the slopes of Mauna Loa, Big Island, Hawaii.
Puttabong Clonal Exclusive: Darjeeling 1st Flush 2007
One of the most valuable pieces of advice I’ve picked up about brewing Darjeelings is this: let them steep about 3 minutes, then check them every 30 seconds until they’re ready. Darjeelings have a nasty habit of turning very bitter, very quickly.
But you can also go too far in the opposite direction, as I discovered with this sample of Puttabong Clonal Exclusive 2007 1st flush, graciously sent my way by Jo from Ya-ya Teahouse. Tea needs enough steeping time to develop complexity and body.
Fair Trade Organic Tea and the Ethics of What We Drink
When we purchase cheap supermarket tea bags, we save money; but who is paying the price? The majority of tea produced worldwide is sprayed with a plethora of pesticides, herbicides and other chemicals, all for the simple purpose of increasing crop yields. The people who work these plantations, picking two leaves and a bud morning to night, year-round, pay for our cheap tea with their health.