Most people don't realize that blending tea is a fine art, similar to blending champagne or whiskey. At Tetley, our team of blenders has over 1,000 years combined tea experience, so they know a thing or two about blending!
Tetley has been sourcing the highest quality teas for over 175 years. Our professional tea tasters, based in 7 countries around the world, have over 1000 years’ worth of experience and we believe that our expertise is second to none. 90% of the tea we drink is actually a tea blend, containing a variety of different sourced teas. Tea is often sold at auctions, our expert buyers and tasters go to these auctions to assess the quality and for selecting the best for our Tetley blends.
Every blend is tasted at least eight times! Before it can be judged to be of Tetley quality. We have over 60 different types of Tetley tea blends, and it takes more than five years to become a qualified Tetley Tea Master. Since no one tea crop is ever the same, tea tasting is a continuous learning process.
Over the years, we have developed our own unique tea tasting language called “Uhuru.” It is a global language that allows Tetley tasters and blenders to describe and grade the quality of the teas. Apart from black and green teas, our expert blenders have managed to create a wide range of herbal teas that suit any occasion. Encompassed by the aromatic and flavorful tastes of nature – roots, leaves, seeds, flowers, spices, berries and herbs – We have devised some wonderful combinations. Rich in fragrance and flavor, these refreshing elixirs are an embodiment of our expertise and epitomize our dedication. These herbal blends contain no caffeine and ensure that you get drawn into the world of Tetley goodness!
FAQs
What does brew for 2 minutes mean? ›
In one to two minutes, the tea is fully brewed for flavour and caffeine extraction. After two minutes, the leaves start to produce tannin, which gives the tea a stronger taste, though has soothing (purported medical) effects on digestion.
What happens if you steep tea too long? ›The steeping process usually takes 3-5 minutes. However, when you over steep tea beyond this time more tannins are released into your cup, so the color turns darker and the flavor becomes bitter from the extra tannins, especially when steeping black tea.
How long does it take to steep a gallon of tea? ›Ways to make 1 Gallon of iced tea:
For 1 gallon, boil 1 quart water (32 ounces or 4 cups). Remove from heat and pour over 1 Luzianne Gallon Size Iced Tea bag (or 4 Family Size or 16 Individual Cup Iced Tea bags). Brew 3-5 minutes and sweeten to taste. Add 3 quarts cold water, stir and chill.
Different brewers are designed with ideal brew times in mind, and most of them come with a suggested range: Generally speaking, everything except espresso or espresso-like preparations (AeroPress, for example) falls within a three to five minute window.
What does brew mean in slang? ›A slang term for coffee. A slang term for beer. Northern English slang for a cup of tea. "Brew up", a term of British origin for the loss of a tank by a catastrophic kill.
Is 2 hours enough for cold brew? ›Cold brew requires brewing up to 12 -18 hours, either at room temperature, or in the fridge, using cold water, as well as using a specialty single origin bean (if you are making 'Specialty' cold brew that is). Cold brew is created by steeping medium to coarse coffee grounds in cold water and is never exposed to heat.
How long should you really steep tea? ›The common loose-leaf tea should not be steeped for more than 5 minutes. Depending on the variety, steeping longer than 5 minutes won't hurt your cup of tea but it can change the flavor of the tea, increase the amount of potential caffeine and may cause the tea to have a more bitter taste.
Are you supposed to steep tea twice? ›Any high-quality tea leaves can (and maybe should) be steeped more than once. Although Gong Fu Cha is a Chinese custom, other cultures have similar traditions of stepping high-quality tea leaves more than once in a single pot or cup. “Any [high-quality] tea leaves should at least produce two steepings,” Teng says.
Why shouldn't you squeeze tea bags? ›Bitterness. The liquid that remains trapped inside the tea bag has even higher instances of tannic acid than what is able to steep out of the bag on it's own. By squeezing the tea bag, you inadvertently release these tannic acids into your tea and in turn create a far more bitter, sour and acidic cup of tea.
Why do you put baking soda in tea? ›Adding a little baking soda to your tea will clear away any cloudiness left from the mixing process, and it's also thought to cut down on any lingering bitter tastes from the steeping tea bags, leaving your tea clarified and smooth and providing your get-together with one fantastic pitcher of tea.
Does tea get stronger if you steep it longer? ›
The longer you steep your tea, the stronger it will be. While this can sometimes be a good thing, as in the case of hearty, robust black teas or some herbal teas, infusing your tea for too long can also result in an unpleasantly bitter, over-strong taste.
How many 8 oz tea bags for a gallon? ›To get it just right, start with 4-6 tea bags for a gallon – 1 teaspoon per 8 ounces (1 cup) of water should do the trick! Feel free to adjust based on your preferred taste level or pick a higher quality variety if you need fewer teabags.
What is the perfect brew ratio? ›Coffee's golden ratio is 1:18 (1 gram of coffee to every 18 grams of water). If you want a stronger cup, use a ratio of 1:15 or if you want a lighter cup, use 1:18. But somewhere between 15 to 18 grams of water to every gram of coffee is most common.
What is the best brew ratio? ›As a broad standard, we recommend a 1:17 ratio.
With a 1:17 ratio, for every 1 gram of coffee, use 17 grams of water. This gives the best chance for an ideal extraction—the process of dissolving soluble flavors from coffee grounds using water—with a complementary strength.
brew, brewage. drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling.
What does it mean to brew a drink? ›brew verb (DRINK)
If you brew tea or coffee, you add boiling water to it to make a hot drink, and if it brews, it gradually develops flavor in the container in which it was made: [ + two objects ] He brewed us some coffee./He brewed some coffee for us. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Beer & cider. ale.
Brew Day: 4 to 4 1/2 hours
Your “brew day” is the day you take those four separate ingredients and transform them into the rich, sugary liquid that will eventually — five weeks from now — become a drinkable beer. The brew day happens in four steps, which will take four to five hours to complete.
transitive verb. If you brew tea or coffee, you make it by pouring hot water over tea leaves or ground coffee. He brewed a pot of coffee. Synonyms: boil, make, soak, steep More Synonyms of brew.