Why Your White Tea Tastes Lousy

Not so long ago, in the quest to find the next big thing in tea (a notion which pretty much equates to "the next green tea") it seems that a lot of media types and tea merchants began to turn their attention to white tea. This makes some sense, to be honest, since white tea, …

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Gunpowder Green Tea Varieties

No one can truly say how many varieties of tea there are, at least not with any degree of accuracy. Suffice to say that it’s a very large number - in the hundreds, at least, and perhaps even into the thousands. Even if you discount the other five types (black, oolong, puerh, yellow, white) and …

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A Bouquet in Your Teapot, Pt. II — Herbals Made from Flowers

There’s a bouquet in your teapot, with teas having flowers added in (explored in Part I). Then, there are infusions made entirely of flowers. They bring fragrances, exotic tastes, and health benefits to your teatime — oops…I mean “infusion time.” There’s a lot of information online about the health benefits of floral infusions, also called …

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