Combining tradition and science to create natural and effective remedies.
These are the teas blended just for the taste.
Gift of the Gloaming’s story began, as many of the tales of my teas do, with a combination of desire and need. I wanted a comforting tea taste, in this case one specifically involving smoke – but I also very desperately needed to relax. As Into the Dark Woods combined Continue Reading →
May’s theme was chosen the moment I decided the Soft Reopen was going to happen on the 6th. May was about reclamation. May was about rediscovery. May was also about being completely overwhelmed by some of my more ambitious choices and high expectations for myself. These things combined, even Continue Reading →
I love it when randomness turns into really good tea. 8-393 started, as so many of my blends do, with a tea survey. In this case it was for a single teabag sampler, rather than the more frequent Tea of the Month Club. It continued as a reason to throw Continue Reading →
One of the things that happened early on in the journey of Desert Sage Natural was the realization that the teas I create are far tastier than anything that I could find on a grocery store shelf. However, some of the teas that had been standards had general taste ranges Continue Reading →
7-335 was created because there was an individual who stated that he wanted to drink more Desert Sage Natural tea. One of the things he pointed out was the relative dearth of strict black tea blends that didn’t involve smoke. To my chagrin, I realized that he was not wrong, Continue Reading →
The tea survey was, on some levels, a brilliant idea. Most of the feedback I’ve received indicates that my skillset, when combined with the questions I asked, allows me to curate teas for other humans quite well. One way in which it is incredibly helpful is also one of the Continue Reading →
The story of Eureka: Smoky Monkey began more years ago than I want to think about right now. It started, as many of my teas do, with a tea survey. In this particular case the list of favourite teas quite frankly terrified me. Silver Needle. Golden Monkey. Things I had Continue Reading →
Sometimes when I get to the bottom of a tin of something there isn’t enough left to make a proper cup. However, I hate wasting tea. Depending on what was in a tin, I will drop it in on top of one of my foundational teas. In the case of Continue Reading →
One of the recurring inspirations for tea ideas is people talking about food on Twitter. I will read a description and some aspect of it (sometimes the entirety of it) will provoke the thought of “I bet this would make a good tea.” Most of the time when this happens, Continue Reading →