Today we are trying Felicitea’s Earl Grey Brandice (4 minutes and then 3 minutes in boiling water), a tea that Brandice herself had a hand in!
Will it be able to stand up to Joe’s sarcasm as well as the original Brandice? Yes, actually it does. And it’s so nice, we tried it twice!
For photos from this episode, visit our Flickr pool, and for more episodes and other tea tidbits, visit STeaPtv.com. Contact Joe and Brandice via steap@steaptv.com.
Quick quick quick, people! First five people to email Summer with the subject “Free Floral Jasmine” get free samples of the Floral Jasmine tea that STeaP is going to be reviewing on the show for July 28th.
If you don’t make it into the first five and you’d still like to participate in the sip-along, you can still purchase a $2.00 sample tin. Make sure to order quickly, since the episode is coming up in the next couple weeks!
Summer has also released details for her newly revamped Bigger Better Coffee to Tea Convert Contest and anyone who enters gets a free sample from Felicitea, so get cracking on those entries! This contest is for tea drinkers and coffee drinkers alike, and the prizes are quite nice if you win.
Check out the community thread linked in the image above to see what viewers (and your show hosts) are offering up for grabs… teas we tried but didn’t like, extra tea we’ll never drink before it goes to waste, any tea we have that is worth offering up to someone else instead of pitching in the trash. Leave a list of teas you’ve got sitting around if you’d like to contribute to the STeaP-encouraged tea exchange! 
As mentioned in our recent episode, we do indeed have an extra tin of Boulder Dushanbe’s Boulder Tangerine Herbal Tea:
The first person to email me with the name of the Arkansas Razorbacks mascot whose name is relevant to our recent episode will receive the tin.
GO!
STeaP is going to be reviewing Sloth Tea from Felicitea in late May, and Summer at Felicitea would like to share some samples with our viewers!
The first five people to email summer[at]felicitea.com will receive a free sample, and if you don’t make the first five, you can still purchase a sample portion of Sloth Tea for $1.00 and try the tea with us in late May.
Thanks to Summer for the generous offer to our viewers, and stay tuned for the review!
You can find Summer’s forum announcement here and you can follow Felicitea on Twitter here.
Tea Nerd is giving away three different bundles of tea goodies! Click on the snapshot from his site below to get to look at the three packages and find out how to enter the contest.
Time to win the blueberry white tea was 3 minutes and 37 seconds. Congratulations to our winner, Mark, who very geekily guessed a steep time of 4 minutes and 2 seconds (in a tribute to the answer to the great question of life, the universe, and everything).
As a Douglas Adams fan, I was quite tickled to be able to give the prize to a Hitchhiker fan. Better luck to the rest of you in our many future giveaways!
(** Also, we did not have any entries for the other tea from that episode, the Berry Blueberry. I have a feeling this is because Joe and I were not fans of the tea, but if there’s anyone who would like to give the tea a shot and give an alternative review, the first email with “Berry Blueberry” in the subject will win the 2 ounce box. We are certainly eager to hear what others think of all of these teas!)
Next week is a episode featuring two blueberry teas:
We have a sample of the Blueberry - Flavored White and a 4 oz. package of the Berry Blueberry to give away, and here is what you need to do to win AFTER THE EPISODE IS LIVE ON MONDAY (to be certain after seeing our review that you want the tea):
1. For the Tea Frog Blueberry - Flavored White:
Email brandice [at] steaptv [dot] com with a random steep time between 1 and 7 minutes. (EX: 1 min 30 seconds, 3 minutes, etc.)
2. For the SerenedipiTea Berry Blueberry:
Twitter “@STeaP” with a plea for the tea that includes the word “berry” in a unique way. (EX: @STeaP, I would berry much like a tea sample!)
Winners will be chosen and announced next Friday, March 12th.
Do you blog about tea? Zhi Tea is giving away samples to tea bloggers, so check it out if you’d like a sample.
http://www.oolong-tea-sample.com/
Your choices:
*EDIT: Well, I might be getting tea… for some reason when I fill out the form and hit “send me free tea!” it says, “Please enter a ‘Blog URL’ in the propper url format” and I am doing so. A little vexed.
*UPDATE: Apparently “http://” is not part of a ‘propper’ url. Keep this in mind.
I have samples to give away of the Mighty Leaf Green Tea Tropical tea that we will be sampling in an episode that will airing the last Monday in February. First several people to email me at brandice@steaptv.com are going to get a sample in the mail in time to drink this tea along with us on the 25th!
Hop to it! Offer ends when I am out of supplies, and thanks to Mighty Leaf for providing generous samples.
