Masto’s latest episode of “Does It Go With Tea?”

As an aside, I’d love to test all of these delicious-looking cupcakes and see if they go with tea as well. It would, of course, be for the greater good of food tasting. ;)

I challenge each of you, our STeaP fans, to find one tea drinker you know and tell them about our site for the New Year. Make it your tea resolution for 2008, and maybe our next giveaway will have dozens of submissions and teas!

Don’t forget to watch our 2007 Tea Showdown on Monday!

Happy STeaPing,
Brandice

Remember that Nat King Cole performance I linked to? Well this is a version you may find to be more familiar, and performed by my favorite trombonist of all time, Tommy Dorsey. I am jazz trombonist myself, so I have to say that this version may be *slightly* more tea-worthy, simply because it’s performed by my musical idol.

I promise this is the last jazz video for a while. I don’t think Joe enjoys them, and I don’t want to get booted from blogging privileges. Got any tea-worthy news or fun links? Send them our way! :)

In the event that one would ever need to eat their tea in a microgravity environment, this video demonstrates the proper techniques. Possibly the strangest tea-related video I’ve seen in a while, and not necessarily the way I would prefer to consume my favorite beverage…

Have you seen any particularly strange tea-related videos? Send me a link at brandice[at]steaptv[dot]com, and I’ll be happy to share them with the STeaPle. :)

As a jazz enthusiast, I am particularly fond of tea when it’s jazzed up and sung by a legend, so for today’s little tidbit teabit, enjoy “Tea for Two,” performed by Nat King Cole:

Do you have any favorite songs that mention our favorite beverage? Throw a shout out in the comments if there are other musical dedications to tea that are noteworthy. :)

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. :)

I’ve been putzing around the internet, looking for other tea content recently, and I found this hilarious tea commercial from Japan. I think I’ve already watched it ten times, and it’s still making me laugh. Hope you enjoy the random tea-related chuckle for today, and don’t forget to check out this week’s oolong episode!

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!