LINKS: Tea facts, Understanding Teas, Teas Defined, Tea History, Tea Culture, Health Benefits of Teas, Miscellaneous Tea Posts
Our Tea blog
Welcome to the Grey’s Teas blog. It focuses on high-grade loose leaf teas from around the world. We hope these will be of interest to you and help you discover more about the teas you enjoy most. Please use the drop-down menu above to choose the category of post that interests you most or feel free to just browse using the post snippets on this and the following pages.
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Tea and Food Pairing
Read more: Tea and Food PairingTea and Food Pairing: which tea to pair with your food? In many societies, particularly in Asia, tea is consumed with meals and a wide variety of food whereas in Britain we tend to limit our culinary horizons, as far as tea is concerned, to scones, hot buttered toast and crumpets and all manner of cakes, pastries,…
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English Tea Blends
Read more: English Tea BlendsEnglish Tea Blends: Explore their diversity English tea blends make up the majority of teas we consume in the United Kingdom. Even with all the speciality loose teas that are now increasingly popular. However, not all English blended teas are blended in England. English Tea blends each have notable characteristics derived from their constituent teas.…
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Traditional Flavoured Teas
Read more: Traditional Flavoured TeasTraditional flavoured teas: black, green and oolong teas using natural flavours. The bergamot fruit, used in Earl Grey tea. The delicate nature of tea means that it easily absorbs other flavours introduced to it. Many traditional flavoured teas have a long history, others are more recent innovations. Many long-standing flavours are achieved by the introduction…
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Drinking tea
Read more: Drinking teaDrinking Tea Poll? What people do whilst drinking tea? Our poll simply asked what you most commonly do when drinking tea. Images come to mind such as reading, having something to eat, reading or spending some time with friends. So what were the results? The most common activity (38% respondents) was browsing the internet. Perhaps this…
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Guide to Good Tea
Read more: Guide to Good TeaGuide to Good Tea: by numbers. 1. The Benefits of Loose Tea Using loose teas is the best way to make a cup of tea. With loose tea you can appreciate the full, balanced flavour of the tea. Here we explain why. Loose tea makes the best tea. That’s a bold statement you say. Why?…
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Green Tea Health Benefits
Read more: Green Tea Health BenefitsGreen Tea Health Benefits: Drink Your Way to Good Health Green tea has long been touted as one of the healthiest beverages around, but what are the green tea health benefits? Read on to find out. Green tea comes from the same shrub as normal, black tea but goes through a different oxidation and processing regime. It’s the…
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Tea and Cake
Read more: Tea and CakeTea and Cake: what’s best with your tea? Discovering the UK’s Favourite Tea-Time Treats Tea and cake is irresistible. Up to 84% of the British population drinks tea and herbal infusions every day, amounting to approximately 60.2 billion cups being consumed every year. According to the United Kingdom Tea and Infusions Association, tea consumption forms…
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Tea Essentials
Read more: Tea EssentialsTea Essentials: What is essential and not essential for a good cup of tea? There is so much talk about tea and its culture that one almost loses sight of what is important if one is to have a good cup of tea. Here, by way of attempting to provide a practical guide, we contrast…
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Which teas to choose for a tea menu
Read more: Which teas to choose for a tea menuWhich teas to choose for a tea menu: our guiding principles and tips Whether you are a tearoom, café, restaurant or hotel you might be pondering the thought “which teas should I choose for a tea menu to offer our customers, diners or guests?” There are several approaches to answering this question but I would start…
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How to make a good cup of tea
Read more: How to make a good cup of teaHow to make a good cup of tea: a step by step approach By using loose leaf tea Loose leaf tea, especially large leaf grades make the best tea, as given a little time, they enable a balanced set of flavours infuse. There are however differences in how black, green oolong or white teas should…
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Tea or Coffee?
Read more: Tea or Coffee?Tea or Coffee – which is best? The ongoing debate of tea or coffee has found its way onto the breakfast table and office conversation time and time again – and everyone seems to prefer one over the other. As a tea drinker myself, I’ve always been firmly on the side of the leaves over…
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Tea away from home
Read more: Tea away from homeYour favourite tea room? Tea away from home: having a cup of tea out. Here’s our reflection… Sitting down in a quaint café studying the thick beams ravaged by time you are greeted by a semi-retired lady who has surrendered to interminable undusted spider’s webs. You fidget uncomfortably on the hard wheel-back chair and adjust to…
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Tea general knowledge: Our series.
Read more: Tea general knowledge: Our series.Here we have some interesting questions relating to tea. They are all quite randomly posed and the answers are in the captions below. If your have some tea questions of your own just get in touch and we will endeavour to answer them! Tea typically provides 17% of our calcium intake giving us strong teeth…
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Guide to our Tea Shop
Read more: Guide to our Tea ShopA Guide to our online Tea Shop Our website has constantly evolved since Grey’s Teas was established in 2000 but is essentially in its fifth generation. As well as a comprehensive online tea shop we are proud of our supporting information pages and our blog which aim to answer any questions you may have about…
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