Last Sunday, Lou and I had the opportunity to share our wonderful Freedom Teas at a Southern California Tea Party Event in Oceanside, California. There were apporximately 2000 people who attended andwe recieved a very favorable response from enthusiastic Tea Party suporters. Someone remarked that we are the first to serve tea at a Tea Party Event! Let's hope the interest grows.
All we ask is one tea tin a week!
Labor Day weekend we had the opportunity to exhibit our teas at Fiesta Hermosa, one of Southern California's largest street fairs, to a crowd of record attendance. During the course of three days we gave out over 1600 sample cups of our teas. No surprise, everyone like our "Rockin Chai" (DC Tea Party), the best, followed by our Green Jasmine (We the People), Citrus Chamomile (Lady Liberty), and then Irish Breakfast (Founding Fathers).
A big thank you to all who came out to visit our booth and help lend support as we launch our tea brand.
A brew of hot tea while popular during a winter evening or cool fall day, likely will not be the preferred beverage on a hot summer day. Yet there are several ways to spruce up the interest in tea during summer without sacrificing any of its great taste. Below are some tea preparation options you can choose, to make your summer tea an enjoyable and desired beverage.
Add Ice and Fruit - Mixing in some cubed or crushed ice will help you cool down while you enjoy the addition of fruits which are traditionally at their peak sweetness during summer. It’s a great idea to take advantage of summer fruit to both sweeten and enhance the flavor of your tea. Peaches, oranges, strawberries, blueberries and even mangos can add a lot of flavor to tea and make it a super tasting fresh summer beverage.
Combine with other beverages - Tea does not have to be sipped solo. When you’re looking for a refreshing and delicious summer beverage, try flavoring your tea with lemonade (e.g. Arnold Palmer drink), strawberry juice, pear juice, pineapple juice or any variety of other juices. Get creative and invent your own fruit-tea formulation drink. After all variety is the spice of life.
Make a Tea punch - Choosing to mix in alcohol (e.g. vodka) or not is up to your discretion, but tea can make a fun great tasting addition to any summer punch. Mixed with fruit, fruit juices, sparkling water and or even sparkling cider, can make a tea-punch the life of the party.
Use it to flavor any food offering - It tastes great as a flavor additive in ice cream and juice popsicles. There are numerous summer recipes that use tea as a flavor enhancer. From chicken dishes, pasta dishes to pound cake, there are lots of recipes that will allow you to have your tea and eat it too.
Several tea aficionados maintain that ‘wet tea’ application to your skin can help prevent ultraviolet sun damage and that tea consumption is even healthier for you and better at preventing dehydration than water. Whether or not the aforementioned claims are true, the important fact to remember is that there is no reason to miss out on tea during the hot summer months.
This is my favorite hot weather mixed-tea drink. It offers a sweet and minty taste. Crisp and refreshing, you just might find yourself craving this beverage on a hot summer's night.
What a wonderfully tea-centric weekend Chris and I enjoyed at the World Tea Expo in sunny
At the World Tea Expo all the different segments of the tea industry came together including retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers, suppliers, etc. Everyone there was dressed to ‘tea’ impress and show-cased their complete service and product portfolios. The electricity and energy throughout the weekend was both exciting and contagious. It was great walking through the hall and checking out the exhibitors, attending the classes, and visiting with folks inside the main convention hall. We thoroughly enjoyed tasting garden fresh tea from
Just because it is the start of summer does not mean that you cannot enjoy a fresh glass of your artisan loose teas. They are great cold as well! Here is a recipe from one of our customers that is sure to cool you off on these hot summer days
Summer ICE TEA Sparkler
4 oz of your favorite artisan tea
2 oz of sparkling water with lemon
1 fresh mint leaf sprig
Brew a cup of your favorite loose leaf tea. After steeping, place tea into a chilled 10 oz tumbler or wine glass that is filled with ice cubes. Add your sparkling water and mint sprig. It is that easy - refreshing , no calorie, with a little bit of pick me up on those hot days - ENJOY!
Feel free to check ot our artisan tea selections at www.freedomteas.com
Made solely with the leaves of the “camellia sinesis” plant, green tea undergoes minimal oxidation. Originating from China, green tea is very common across the countries. The tea gets its name from the color of the liquid after it is brewed. The natural flavor of the leaf stands out. Flavor wise, green tea can range from a floral flavor to almost a grassy flavor. While extensive studies are being done to prove the health benefits of green tea researchers are saying that green tea drinkers have much lower changes to develop heart disease and other certain types of cancer. Also, green tea is also linked to weight loss. Compared to the other teas, green tea is considered to have a lot less caffeine.
Our green tea ( We the People) is infused with Jasmine flowers and is 100% organic. It has a gentle body and a distinctly sweet Jasmine flavor...just wonderful to enjoy in the morning while reading the paper as I do. To learn more go here.
Tea drinking is a great experience and it also helps promote good mental and physical well-being. Tea is the perfect excuse to get together with your old friends or have some time alone, whatever may be the occasion, a perfectly brewed cup of tea suits one and all...the perfect diversion...even among the famous.
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I love a freshly brewed cup of tea in the morning to start my day. It leaves me refreshed, provides energy, and has various health benefits...but how should one best prepare tea?
Brewing tea is an art. Start with a warm tea pot. Pour a bit of hot water in it to warm it up and then pour out. Fill the pot with the number of cups of boiling water you wish. Then place one tea bag for each cup. Let them sit for about five minutes, more or less according to the strength of tea that you want. If you leave it too long it will get bitter. Remove tea bags and pour into cups! You can also do it with a single cup. I like to cover the cup with a saucer while it steeps.
Other pointers:
There are as no simple answers to this question and researchers vary substantially in regard to what they believe are optimum quantities of human green tea consumption. For example, in a recent study conducted in Japan, men who drank a minimum of ten cups of green tea per day stayed cancer-free for three years longer than those men who drank less than three cups a day. Recently, a study by Cleveland's Western Reserve University concluded that drinking four or more cups of green tea per day could help prevent rheumatoid arthritis, or reduce symptoms in individuals already suffering from the disease. And Japanese scientists at the Saitama Cancer Research Institute discovered that there were fewer recurrences of breast cancer, and the disease spread less quickly, in women with a history of drinking five cups or more of green tea daily.
It gets more confusing. A University of California study on the cancer-preventative qualities of green tea concluded that you could probably attain the desired level of polyphenols (any of a large class of organic compounds, of plant origin that have antioxidant properties) by drinking merely two cups per day. On the other hand, a company selling a green tea capsule formula insists that ten cups per day are necessary to reap the maximum health benefits.
How can one make proper sense of all these conflicting claims? Given the aforementioned evidence above, it is probably a safe bet to plan on drinking at least four to five cups of green tea daily. If you're a real green tea aficionado, by all means drink as much as you like; but whether or not you'll derive added health benefits remains to be determined by the performance of further comprehensive research studies.
