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A while ago, I wrote about Revolution Tea. I thought it was incredible tea with really impressive packaging. Then I met a representative for Mighty Leaf “Artisan-Crafted Whole Leaf Tea Pouches.” Admittedly, their packaging is pretty ho-hum. Nothing too impressive and pretty typical for tea packaging. The tea bags (or, as they call them, “pouches”) are silken and biodegradable and, if I recall correctly, they are the only company using the machine they have to make them (originally they used the same type of pouches that revolution used, but found the ones they now use to be better).
While Revolution had sent me boxes of tea, Mighty Leaf sent me individually wrapped tea pouches of a bunch of their flavors. I guess, in all fairness, I can’t really compare their packaging since all I saw were little paper packets as opposed to their boxes of tea. I can however talk about their tea’s taste.
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That seemed like an obvious way to go with titling the post since we’re talking about a revolution: Revolution Tea that is… Okay, I know, that was bad, I’ll try and cut down on the cheese factor. Moving right along.
This isn’t my first time writing about tea. I am, what I would consider, a pretty big tea fan. Sitting at my desk at work I go through about 4 cups of tea a day. You might think it is my body craving caffeine that I could get from one or two cups of coffee, but for one I don’t drink coffee; never have, I just think it is bitter. And another point, a lot of the tea I drink is either low in caffeine or herbal, without caffeine. In fact, for the longest time I avoided black teas. Like coffee I thought they were just too bitter and didn’t really have enough flavor to back up all the bitterness.
During the past week and a half I have been trying out some new teas I discovered. Revolution Tea is a small tea company (well, in comparison to say Lipton or Celestial Seasonings at least) located in Arizona. They are producing full-leaf tea in high quality infuser bags instead of your typical ground-up tea in a paper bags. Their packaging is all simple and clean, with a modern feel and design. They have your typical boxes with the tea stored inside a plastic box inside to keep out moisture, travel tins with 6 tea bags, tea tins for larger bags (for brewing pots of tea) and single serving packages; small cardboard boxes with their unique infuser tea bag inside.
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As I have mentioned before I am a big fan of tea.
I recently came across a story on the Chow website titled “High Tea in Cubicle Land: How to brew your own tea at work” and since ‘Cubicle Land’ is where I do the majority of my tea drinking I just felt the need to read up on it and see what I was missing out on.
The had a couple of suggestions for tea drinking tools. Apparently I am missing out on a whole bunch of tea infusing sticks from the looks of it. I don’t really feel the need for an insulated mug, my standard good old-fashioned mug works just fine, For hot water they suggest an electric water heater, I guess this works out well if you are otherwise forced to use a coffee pot spigot for your water (thus getting coffee flavored water), but I have a Water Cooler which does that job just fine with purified water and all.
They also had some suggestions and tips, like don’t place wet tea leaves on important documents- Seriously? That is the type of information they think might be helpful? Do they think tea drinkers are idiots? Though this one: “Deep-clean your mug and tea-making gear. The mineral deposits on dirty items will alter the flavor” is a pretty decent suggestion…
Anyway I am hoping to get some tea soon that I will be able to review here, until then all you tea drinkers will have to just go with this.