Personally, I enjoy both coffee & tea but some greatly prefer one over the other for different reasons. It could be simply for the taste, for the caffeine amount or the ease of making it. As we are a tea store, we mainly focus on tea benefits but it is informative to compare the two …
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Breakdown of Brands: Bewley’s Irish Tea
We are staying with the luck of the Irish again this week with Bewley's Tea, founded in 1840 by Samuel Bewley and his son Charles Bewley. They took a chance with a little shop in Dublin, Ireland and thank goodness they did, because they are now a worldwide power house in the coffee & tea …
Breakdown of Brands: Barry’s Tea
Barry's Tea, an Ireland delicacy, began in 1901 by James Barry. His tea loving family and himself started a little shop on Prince's Street in Cork City. Most of their tea was sourced from India & Sri Lanka. James began handing down his expertise in the family and in 1934, Anthony Barry, a relative of …
“On The Deleterious Effects Produced By Drinking Tea” by John Cole
The general consensus these days is that tea is not bad for you - and there is a fair amount of evidence that it might even be quite good for you. There are exceptions, of course. Like the woman who drank excessive amounts of iced black tea over many years and suffered some unpleasant side …
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Does Tea Need More Caffeine?
People have different reasons for drinking tea. Some do so because they grew up in a tea drinking household and that's just the way things were done. Some people drink it for the taste - a group that I'd put myself in. Some like the contemplative aspects of the tea experience and the ritual of …
Is Caffeine a “Drug”?
I can across an article on line recently that called caffeine an addictive drug. Well, if you've been reading my articles for any length of time, you know I'm a bit of a stickler for correct terminology (maybe a bit overly so - sigh!). So, I wanted to check out if caffeine could really be …
Tea Quiz: Which Color of Tea Has More Caffeine
Time for a tea quiz: which of these teas has more caffeine? Rank them high to low. Darker colors of tea liquid are often taken to indicate that something is stronger in flavor or more such-and-such. So, it’s only natural that this gets applied to tea when it comes to caffeine. That is, darker tea …
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Addicted to Tea, Part II
Not so long ago I wrote about the notion of tea addiction. I concluded that while you might not be able to develop an addiction to tea, at least not in the strictest sense of the word, it seems possible that you might become addicted to the caffeine in tea. I hardly consider myself to …
Might as Well Face It, You’re Addicted to Tea
Are you addicted to tea? Oh, phooey. I have to admit that I find it a bit tiresome the way people toss around the word "addiction" so casually these days, often in situations where it simply doesn't fit. Yeah, you might like chocolate or baseball or anime a whole lot, but it's highly unlikely that …
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Tea, Caffeine, and Hydration
There's never a shortage of news reports about the assorted and sundry health benefits tea can provide. Many such reports have appeared in these very pages. And while it's a good idea to take the sometimes miraculous health claims many merchants make for tea with a grain of salt, there's also good reason to believe …
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