A Modern Take on the Tea Bag - New Shapes and Styles Make For a Better Brewing Experience

Have you noticed a change in the shape and style of your tea bag recently? Gone are the single or double chamber rectangular tea bag of old, stapled closed, with a string and paper tag. Today there are square cushions or pillows, round pods, foil tubes, and transparent gauze pyramids. Tea bags are undoubtedly the preferred method of tea brewing, with 98% in the U.S., 96% in the U.K., and a large number worldwide using a tea bag to prepare their morning cuppa tea. It used to be that most bagged tea was made from lower quality blends of CTC (cut-tear-curl)...

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Why Should You Drink Oolong Tea?

Oolong tea is an ancient form of Chinese tea that is produced through a very unique process that involves withering the tea leaves under the rays of the sun, oxidation, curling and twisting it. This process is applicable for these tea leaves and for some selected variants in it. The range of oxidation of this tea varies from 8 percent to 85 percent. But again it depends on different varieties and categories. The flavor is slightly darker and richer as the leaves undergo a partial process of photosynthesis. Usually this Oolong tea would resemble...

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