I love espresso and I love rooibos. Lucky for me there is a product called Red Espresso. I posted a full review on INeedCoffee. Check out Red Espresso is Espresso Style Rooibos.
Photo Red Espresso vs Regular Rooibos by INeedCoffee / CoffeeHero
In the INeedCoffee article Coffee Roundtable – Our Starbucks Idea, I assembled a group of INeedCoffee contributors to give their ideas to improve Starbucks. Here was my 2nd idea.
Better quality tea. I know the immediate goal is about improving the coffee. Believe it or not your tea quality is in worse shape than your [...]
Brewing loose leaf tea when your mug is too big for your steeper.
Today was the official national roll out for the Starbucks VIA Instant Coffee. I covered the taste yesterday in the post Fear of an Instant Coffee. Since Starbucks is pushing this as an economical alternative to cafe coffee, what will the cost be? From Starbucks unveils its instant brew on CNN Money:
Via is sold in [...]
In late summer, I purchased a single serve square of pu’er tea that claimed to be coffee pu’er. Pu-erh tea is tea that has been fermented and aged. From the Wikipedia:
Unlike other teas that should ideally be consumed shortly after production, pu-erh can be drunk immediately or aged for many years; pu-erh teas are often [...]
Yesterday I was reading up on the latest H1N1 virus information and came across an interesting study that measured how tea could prevent influenza. It seems you don’t even have to drink the tea, you can just gargle it. The study Gargling with tea catechin extracts for the prevention of influenza infection in elderly nursing [...]
TeeGeek.net did an exhaustive search to find out if there was any truth to the fact that the CDC really stated Sun Tea was dangerous. In the the post Sun Tea Winner (Plus a Rant About Information Drift), the author chases down how the sun tea dangers were misrepresented and repeated over and over.
We started [...]
A photo of a tea leaf inside a tea cup taken at Teacup.
The tea leaf in the photo was grown in Seattle by Brett from Teacup.
Sources:
Black Dragon Tea Bar – Brett’s tea blog.
Teacup – Seattle Tea shop at 2128 Queen Anne Ave N, Seattle, WA 98109
Here are a few photos of a Chinese Blooming Flower Teaball. Although I wouldn’t consider these little tea balls (bombs) which expand into sponge-like flowers to be great tea, they are cool to look at if you have a glass tea pot. They are available at most good tea shops.
Sources:
Photo Gallery – For Chinese Blooming [...]
Every so often, I get a shocked response from my fellow coffee fans when I tell them I have also become a tea fan. They will mumble something about not liking tea. I always respond the same.
If someone told you they didn’t like coffee, your mind would immediately think that they just had never tried [...]
