Tag Archives: Green tea

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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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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4 top tips to brew a better tea

Here are Two Leaves and a Bud, top four tips to brewing a betta’ cup of tea. But first and foremost, use one of our great organic teas! 1. Water: If you have good drinking water from your faucet, then use it. Otherwise, use bottled water or filtered water. 2. Temperature: in a kettle, bring the cold water to boiling and turn off the heat. Let it sit a few minutes before pouring into the teapot. In the meantime, condition the teapot by putting a small amount of hot water in it, swish it around, and pour it out. This will help prevent the teapot from cracking when the hot water is poured in, and also helps keep the teapot warm. Generally for green tea, the hot water temperature should be low, about 180 degree water. For black Tea, the … Continue reading

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How to Make Tea Circa 1941

Although shot in 1941, this little Gem from the BFI National Archive has the all the needed tips for passionate tea drinkers!† you will benefit from the six golden tips for making the perfect cuppa’ tea, as well as countless other handy hints (never store your tea next to cheese, for example). There’s an assessment of the pros and cons of various teapots and words of wisdom about the tea bush itself. Everything we wanted you to know at Two Leaves and a Bud is there, but if you need more information on tea and organic tea, we still have it too!

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Our Tea Gift Set Sale continues

Share the gift of tea with your favorite tea lover! two leaves and a bud offers various tea gift items and tea ware for tea drinkers of all kinds check out our tea tins, tea travelers, and tea samplers.† While supplies last scroll along the bottom to see our discontinued gift sets on SALE – 30% OFF!! All of our tea gifts feature great two leaves and a bud whole leaf organic tea; whether green tea, black tea, herbal tea or white tea.

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