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Tag Archives: water
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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Quest for the perfect paper cup
It goes without saying that we’re always tasting new tea around here. And then yesterday I caught Richard in the tasting area, slurping away from a ceramic mug and a paper cup that looked like they were filled with water. Yup — a water tasting. But it’s not what you think. See, Richard loves the taste of the water in here in Basalt, Colo., which comes from a natural spring on top of Basalt Mountain, above town. We don’t even have a water filter on our office sink. What he was really finding out was what his favorite water tastes like in each of these cups. It seems he’s been looking for an environmentally-friendly paper cup that we can use and recommend to coffee shops that serve our teas. Plenty of paper cups tout how green they are. Typically they’re … Continue reading
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Tagged Basalt, Colorado, paper cups, tasting, tea business, tea tasting, two leaves and a bud, water, water tasting
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