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Tag Archives: Green tea
Toasting the new year with two leaves
I found a recipe for a great cocktail made with tea (Organic Tamayokucha was my choice) that includes really easy-to-obtain ingredients like mint, lime and vodka, and that you can whip up in a flash for visitors. Continue reading
Heat for the perfect steep
Boil, plunk, and enjoy. As in, boil your water, plunk in the tea sachet, and drink your tea. Aren’t those the basic rules for making tea? Actually, no. At two leaves and a bud, we think if you’re going to enjoy a premium cuppa’ our whole leaf tea, you might want to learn a bit more about how to prepare one so you get the most out of every leaf. So consider, for a minute, that the temperature of the water you’re preparing for tea is just as important as the time you allot for steeping the tea. After all, you want to brew up the best tea you can, don’t you? But not to worry — we’re not about to intimidate you with how you should buy a fancy-schmancy thermometer to painstakingly take the temperature of each kettle you’re … Continue reading
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Tagged assam, black tea, boil, camellia Sinensis, earl grey, Green tea, mountain high chai, Oolong tea, steep, temperature, two leaves and a bud, water, white tea, whole leaf tea
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There’s *what* in my tea?
You learn a lot about tea when you start a job at a tea company. In my first month here at two leaves and a bud, I’ve tried to pronounce “Tamayokucha,” learned that some chai teas really are better than others (but I’m not naming names), and been told more than once to refill the electric kettle. So then Bess mentions the new loose leaf tea we’re going to be carrying — plenty of different kinds, two of which are Genmai Matcha and Hoji Cha. Great, I think. Another couple of teas I can’t pronounce. But catching a glimpse of these varieties in little sample bags around the office, it’s clear there’s something really different about these two. Genmai Matcha, Japanese for “brown rice tea,” is exactly that: green tea combined with roasted brown rice. So, you’ve got your tea … Continue reading
Steep Time – How much is enough?
We get asked all the time, “how long do I steep this?” It seems to be an age-old question and seems to elude many of us who are not native to tea-growing countries. Early in my better tea drinking days, I would return from Sri Lanka with wonderful tea only to find that it just did not taste the same at home – It always was too dense, too strong, over steeped! I am just sitting this morning with a well steeped cup of two leaves and a bud Darjeeling tea (an unabashed plug) thinking that I’ve been meaning to post on this for, like, years. So finally…http://www.twoleavesandabud.com/n_Steep-time—how-much-is-enough-38.html . Please let us know your steeping experiences and what works and doesn’t work for you. Cheers!
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Tagged assam tea, Green tea, jasmine tea, organic tea, tamayokucha, white peony tea
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25% off all green teas: 2 days left
Our Spring sale on organic green tea is still going on, but hurry-up! there is only two days left! when it comes to our green tea, the leaves are steamed or roasted in order to inactivate the enzymes at the first stage of processing. After this it is rolled, then fired at a high temperature to fix the flavor of the tea. Two Leaves and a Bud offers a selection of 4 exceptional green teas: jasmine petal, orange sencha, Tamayokucha, and tropical goji green
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Tagged Green tea, organic green tea, spring tea, tea sale, two leaves and a bud
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