Tea Articles of Interest: Tag: Stir Experiments & Play

This simple question evokes strong responses. We recreated a scaled-down version of a pioneering 1935 experiment to see for ourselves.

If you have a packet of tea in your cupboard that is well past its best-before (BBF), why not try a refresher roast.

The Stir team were curious to find out if a banana boiled in water might work as a natural sweetener for tea?

When bad things happen to good teas, it’s generally the water that’s the problem. Yes – the water!

When brewing tea, many of us don’t give much thought to (1) what type of water to use, (2) how hot it should be, and (3) how long to steep tea before serving it.

Truth is, these 3 factors have a substantial impact on the taste, aroma, and flavours of tea.

Your choices here can make the difference between your brewed green tea being a smooth and fresh pleasure of flavours or not. Read more about how water impacts your tea experience in this article written by Peter Keen.

In part two of our series on teacups, we look into whether or not the shape, size and material of your teacup can have an influence on your tea drinking experience.

Milk helps induce sleep, fortifies the nervous system and is rich in proteins and minerals.
Increasingly tea drinkers who are trying to reduce or eliminate dairy from their diet are asking us for a plant based milk alternative. We decided the best way to answer this was to test it for ourselves. So, we set aside an afternoon to run a blind tasting with five non-dairy plant based milk alternatives.