This is what will happen if you let that forgotten cup of tea sit for too long. I feel a little better about my frequently forgotten cups of tea all over my apartment, knowing that I have never found them so horribly neglected and full of icky things.

Official tip of the day? Don’t subject your poor tea mugs to this!

I know that we haven’t done a flowering tea on the show yet, but I’d really like to, because they are incredibly cool to watch and are often quite tasty. Here is one particularly good video of a blooming green tea from OolongTeaHouse:

TeaPosy makes and sells flowering teas and they also have a video that showcases some of their best work:

Maybe it’s time we did a flowering tea episode! Let us know what you think.

Masto, our fellow tea enthusiast and correspondent, has come through with a hilarious episode of Does It Go With Tea? (DIGWT), which I had to share with all of you.

Hopefully it will tide you over until tomorrow’s new episode of STeaP hits the net.

Here’s a great video by Masto and BerryGirl about the different Chai teas that they have sitting around the house. It’s a real head to head battle to see which Chai reigns supreme. You might be surprised at the results.

And I swear I’ve seen something like this before, I just can’t put my finger on where.

Here is the most complete description of tea grades I have ever seen from STeaP’s good friend, Masto on Viddler. He really breaks out the teas for this one!

There has been controversy over my answer about what makes iced tea cloudy. Faithful viewer Michelle wrote that her boyfriend “uses an automatic iced tea maker and the iced tea blend, which brews the tea directly over ice, and does not have a problem with the tea remaining clear”. I think that the gun may have been jumped on my answer, so here is my promise:

I hear your concern and justice will be served! Brandice, I mean … eh … Gustaf, also questioned me on this and now I’m starting to question myself! I need to get a shirt that says Liar and just wear it around everywhere.

I’ve always heard about the ice solution that I mentioned in the episode and I have had no cloudy problems since. But I also filter my water and use decent quality tea (I don’t use loose leaf for iced tea BTW) I’m now thinking, as you and Chris have said, that the ice might not be the whole answer.

I do think that it’s the tannins bunching together that is the symptom, but what’s the cause? So, it is my promise to you that I will dedicate a whole show to this problem and finally find out what makes iced tea cloudy. I will look at the quality of the tea, the length of time it’s in the fridge, the type of tea (high tannin black v. low tannin green), filtered v. hard water, and when the ice is applied in the brewing process.

Hopefully with this, we will finally know what makes iced tea cloudy. The people deserve an answer!