Brandice has an announcement.

Bad News: Some of our teas did not arrive in time to do the showdown for New Years, so we’ll be doing the Tea Showdown for January 7th. Sorry for the postponing, and we promise the New Year’s Eve show will still be a great one! :)

Good News: STeaP is hitting NYC in two weeks! Joe won a contest for Haydenfilms over at Viddler and has chosen yours truly to accompany him on the trip, so we’ll be filming a VERY special STeaP episode in New York City that will likely go live the week after the Tea Showdown.
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So overall, mostly good news, and you’ll get two really special episodes two week in a row! :) Hope that will make it worth the wait, and don’t forget to check out our New Year’s episode, which will still be full of (hopefully) yummy teas.

Jen sighted STeaP on a random webpage this week, which is incredibly cool. STeaP is everywhere!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2312/2140746085_4e8d7079d5.jpg?v=0

Have you seen STeaP anywhere on the internet? Send us a screenshot if you do!

Are you into Blubrry? STeaP is on Blubrry and new episodes can be watched right in our Blubrry profile!

http://blubrry.com/steap/

Uploaded with Skitch!

Per their very cool website:

“Blubrry is a social podcasting community that connects podcast producers, advertisers and everyone looking for great independently produced content.”

For the ultimate interactive experience, we recommend Viddler (or here at the site, where we embed from Viddler) for your premium episode viewing, but we want to offer as many convenient options as possible. :)

Happy Holidays from STeaP! Here’s a Christmas Eve tea tribute from Patricius over at Viddler.com that I thought was pretty fitting. I especially like his tea enthusiasm. :) It’s Twinings, but we’ll forgive him for that in the spirit of the season.

Enjoy the holiday!

Coming up next week will be an episode about a tea from a new kid on the tea selling block, Aurateas. We got four free samples from them recently and thought we should give them a big thank you for helping out.

Thanks!

[auraTeas] premium gourmet tea

Hey there! Is Facebook not enough? Check out STeaP’s Virb page and friend us up!

Are you on Facebook and also a fan of STeaP? Fan us up!

Do you think STeaP should be out there getting noticed anywhere else on the internet? Let us know at steap @ steaptv.com!

To participate in the Tea Showdown here at STeaP, you only need to do a few things:

• 1. Tell us about your favorite tea, what it is, where to buy it and how to make it to perfection.
• 2. Send us an email about it to steap@steaptv.com with subject “Tea Showdown”

That’s it! In a future episode we will have to ultimate tea showdown with all of the teas being sampled blind! Brandice and Joe will rank the teas on a 1 to 10 scale and the tea with the highest score will win! If there is a tie, the disembodied voice will select the winner from the highest ranked teas. And only one entry per person, please!

The winner will receive the following prizes via mail:

• Ingenuitea
• A Guide to Tea

December 21st will be your last day to submit entries, so give it some thought and then throw us an email asap! The Tea Showdown will be our first episode of the New Year.

Let the battle begin!

Did you know that STeaP has a Facebook group called STeaP Fans?

Well, we do.