By William I. Lengeman III
Once upon a time, tea drinking was a relatively simple thing. If you lived in the East and drank tea it was likely to be green, while those of us in the West tended to favor black tea. Here in the United States tea drinkers were likely to take it black, [...]
By A.C. Cargill
Not every tea makes an acceptable chilled (iced) tea. When cooled, some teas become bitter or just downright make your teeth hurt with every sip. Other teas cry out loudly for milk and sweetener but don’t taste good chilled, according to my personal experiments. Fear not, though. There are plenty of teas out [...]
By A.C. Cargill
Quickly becoming a stand-out among teas, Oolong is a true tea phenomenon. When many people think of tea, they think of a black tea blend, the kind that comes in most bagged teas available commercially. As they hear more of the health benefits of tea, they learn about green tea and try some [...]
By William I. Lengeman III
According to the American Liver Foundation, a condition called fatty liver occurs when excess fat in liver cells makes up more than ten percent of the liver’s overall weight. This condition can lead to serious complications and is estimated to affect 10-24 percent of people around the world and perhaps as [...]
By A.C. Cargill
Oolong is a tea that thrills twice: once while it steeps and the fragrance travels gently from the teapot’s spout to your nose, and once again when the steeping is done. While this could be said of many teas, Oolong trumps them all. It truly is, in my most unhumble opinion, the pride [...]
By Stephanie Harkins
The Gongfu tea ceremony, also known as the Kungfu tea ceremony, literally means “Way of tea brewing with great skill”. The ceremony itself a Chinese method of brewing teas. Usually Oolong tea, which is a type of tea between green and black tea, or Pu-erh tea, which is an earthy and pungent [...]
Can you imagine how great it would be to drink tea and get paid for it? Well, that is exactly what a professional tea taster does. Employed to determine the quality of tea, a professional taster can tell exactly where a tea was grown and its quality simply by tasting it. To do his [...]
Popular throughout the world, black tea has one of the most complex aromas of anything we eat or drink. Black tea is formed by oxidizing the tea leaves and letting their essential oils and enzymes come alive. Black tea may have many aromas including, fruity or flowery.
Green tea by comparison has a more delicate and [...]
There are over three thousand varieties of tea, and it would be nice if there were a way to gauge the quality of your tea, even perhaps to grade it.
There is, but since tea grades do not follow a worldwide standard, communication is difficult. Green and oolong tealeaves are usually whole and not graded, [...]
Tea has been a popular beverage in America since the first European settlers landed here in 1492. It cemented its place in our history when colonists tossed it into Boston Harbor in 1773 during the Boston Tea Party. It’s made from the dried leaves of Camellia Sinesis, which is an evergreen shrub. Green [...]
