California Tea & Coffee Brewery

This month the editor of T Ching (www.tching.com) has asked me to write my guest contributor post on using social network marketing, social media networking, or whatever it’s called..sigh..and I’m at a little bit of a loss, as it’s all still Greek to me. However, what I do know is that it’s free, it most [...]

Iced coffee has become a hot comodity this summer and I was just reading about the ‘wars’ going on between places for customers of this classic beverage.  Like anything else, iced coffee can be great, average or really awful, depending on the ingredients and technique.  Why not just get an iced Americano instead?  An iced [...]

How do I love thee, Rooibos?  I can’t count the ways!  But here are a few: 1.    No caffeine 2.  More antioxidants (many times more) than tea 3.  Earthy, robust, mellow flavor 4.  Ability to be blended with everything from chocolate to coconut to mint to fruit. In short, I don’t know of a [...]

So many people dislike green tea because they say it’s ‘bitter’ or tastes ‘nasty’ to them.  If you are working with a really good green tea, and that doesn’t mean really expensive, this should never be the case.  Most problems with taste in coffee or tea happen during the brewing process.  First of all, to [...]

Beside our own blog, I also blog for a wonderful tea site called T Ching, which was started by Sandy Bushberg and Michelle Rabin, both PhD’s and both absolute lovers of good tea.  Their editor was kind enough to ask if I would like to become a guest contributor. The series I’ve been doing is [...]