Love4Teas Tea Blog

Now, you may be wondering why their is a picture of a smoggy and polluted Chinese city under a post about “Rinsing Tea”. Well, as we all know, many teas are grown in china. From the plethora of Chinese green teas to the expensive and aged pu’erhs, there are a whole lot of Chinese tea.
With the Olympics [...]

Here at love4teas.com we really love tea. However, our journey into tea has just begun, and we are pretty far away from being tea experts (although we do try to provide all sorts of tea information while we are on road to discovering tea). And I have decided that whenever I come across any great tea [...]

There is really a ton of stuff you can do with tea. I just learned that it can help fight dry skin, stop bleeding, tenderize meat, and polish furniture. I keep coming across more and more of these uses for tea. Take a look at this tea article.

If you are a tea enthusiast and have not yet heard of teamag, then take a look, at Teamag.com. It is the first magazine I have found that is completely dedicated to tea. I however have not yet subscribed, so I can not vouch for the quality of the magazine. It is pretty interesting though, that [...]

DesignaTea is offering free tea samples. Not completely free though, because you have to pay $1.00 for shipping. But, you do recieve $2 off your next purchase from the site. The site has an interesting concept and lets you “design your own tea” by picking a base tea of black, oolong, rooibos, or green and adding [...]

 The second of the two samples I recieved from just4tea.com was for Pu Erh Tea. The just4tea Pu Erh is grown in the Yunnan province of China. This post fermented tea is aged and compacted into a small bird’s nest form. The liquor of this tea is a very nice reddish black color, and has a [...]

When the average joe thinks of tea, he also thinks of scones. So if you are interested in making some scones with your tea, here is my scone recipe. (actually really pretty good!). (makes 8 scones)
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Ingredients:

1/2 cup sour cream
2 cups flour
1 egg
8 tbls. butter (unsalted)
1 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. baking soda

Flowering teas are basically a lot of individual tea leaves which are hand sown together into a ball. When brewed these flowering teas look like art. They almost magically unfold and look like they are blooming right before your eyes. Take a look at this video of a flowering tea unfurling in a glass pot. [...]

I believe that I have found the first tea for which you have to be 21 and older to buy! take a look 21 and over Tea . Has anyone out there tried this stuff? Sounds kind of interesting, “Raw Green Tea”.

Why coffee and not tea? Most people in the United States drink coffee and not tea. This must seem strange to many people, considering how much better tea tastes than coffee! (not to mention all the great health benefits of tea).Surprisingly enough, at one time tea was actually very popular in the US. Well, not actually [...]