New Mugs
Sounds silly, but I've been doing a bit of reading lately about how you should drink your tea. From what I've been seeing and from personal experience there are a few simple tips to go by in order to get the most out of your loose leaf tea.
- Use filtered water, the reason for this is to make sure there is little fluoride and other impurities that can be found in you water. These additives may affect the flavour of your brew. I have been looking at a filtered kettle, but I can't seem to find one in Canada. If you need to add water to cool your tea, add filtered water.
- Use the one mug for tea and one for coffee. It doesn't matter how many times and how well you wash your mugs I have found that drinking tea out of a mug that I have coffee in can affect the flavour of the tea. I can sometimes taste the strong coffee flavour, and I don't want that when I'm supping a flavourful rooibos. I recently was in Starbucks and saw these cute mugs (see pic above). There were only three left, so I picked up two of them specifically for tea drinking. At the moment I have been using my tea for life mug, which is only good for one cup, and as I often make my other half a cup as well, I often have to make a pot of tea when I don't necessarily want to.
- Use A teaspoon measure. Tea needs to be measured by accuracy otherwise it may be too strong, or not strong enough.
- Have the right temperature of the water. Most teas will say on there label how hot to have the water. I have full intension of making a post at a later date with guidelines for the perfect boiling temps.
I hope these help you enjoy your favourite brew!
