Tea-rivia
May 23, 2016
Why does a cup of tea solve everything?
In times of crisis, it's a national institution that we find or offer comfort in a simple cup of tea. Putting the kettle on to ease stress during a bad day or ahead of impending bad news is a tried, tested and often successful strategy.
Apr 21, 2016
Tea in Britain - A Brief History On #nationalteaday
While Brits are renowned worldwide for their penchant for a cuppa, the origins of this tradition are, in historical terms, pretty recent. Here's our very brief history of tea in the UK in honour of National Tea Day today.The Chinese are believed to have been drinking tea for around 5,000 years and far from the British being the first Europeans to bring tea to our continent, it was in fact the Portuguese and the Dutch in 1610!
Jan 5, 2016
Bitter about drinking Green Tea? You might be brewing it all wrong...
Want to embrace the health benefits of green tea but don't fancy incorporating it into your diet because it all tastes bitter and boring?
We hear this feedback all the time and it breaks our hearts! There is a huge amount of diversity and complexity of flavour in the huge range of speciality green teas produced around the world.
Sep 25, 2015
Tea Production
Like most crops, the production of tea is fairly complex. Here we give a brief summary of how different teas are prod...
Jul 28, 2015
Super-Spice: The Benefits of Ginger
Here at Debonair Tea, we’re huge ginger lovers and seem to consume vast amounts of the stuff (fresh, ground, stem) in our tea and our food.
We’ve always known it makes us feel good but we’ve recently had our eyes opened to the fact that, from a health credentials point of view, ginger really is the original “super spice”.