15 January 2015

Time For Tea with Helen WIlson of www.lotsofnicethings.com

Time for Tea – our monthly chat with someone who cares about tea. This time from Helen Wilson whose blog is www.lotsofnicethings.com

14 October 2014

Time for Tea from John Gregory-Smith

Time for Tea – our monthly chat with someone who cares about tea - this month we hear from chef and blogger John Gregory-Smith -

25 June 2014

Time for Tea with Helen @FussFreeFlavours

The lovely Helen Best Shaw from Fuss Free Flavours imparts her tea habits and desires in this month's Time for Tea blog spot.

19 June 2014

Steenbergs Tea Taster Panel

03 April 2014

Time for Tea – our new regular chat with someone who cares about tea

Food, fashion and beauty blogger Becca shares her top tips for a tea-filled day

26 March 2014

Looking back over the past 10 years ... part 1

Steenbergs began life in the late autumn of 2003. Our youngest child had just had her first birthday and wasn't walking on her own. Steenbergs has now been going for around 10 years (our 2 children are nearly taller than Sophie) so we thought it was...

19 February 2014

Steenbergs New Taster Panels Report - Tea Tasting 1

Welcome to Steenbergs Tea Taster Panel's first review of some of our teas!  Back in October 2013, we asked all of our lovely customers if any of you would like to be tea and spice tasters for us and luckily lots of you agreed! Thank you so much to al...

22 November 2011

A Truly British Cup Of Tea

Taking all the information in my previous blog, here is my stab at how to make a cracking cup of tea:

18 November 2011

The Perfect Cuppa

The other day I listened to James May chatting on Radio 5 Live about the new series of Man Lab and in it he discussed the perfect cup of tea. As in everything in life, I agreed with some of what James May said, but disagreed with other parts, for exa...

30 October 2011

Our Agony With Peppermint

Peppermint has been giving us here a headache over the last few months.  Somehow our peppermint just was not quite good enough and we have spent lots of time trying to work out why and what we could do about it?  Firstly, the peppermint tea was minty...

18 October 2011

Blending Breakfast Teas (Part 3)

So how to get us started? Well, I decided to start at the end first and to work backwards, so I tried to work out what were the types or styles of tea that we wanted to come out with as products. Basically, we were looking for light, medium and stron...

10 October 2011

Blending Breakfast Teas (2)

These developments in tea blending style are best described through the developments in the composition of the standard household tea blend over the years.  These show how the blends became more complicated, even as they became less complex in flavou...

06 October 2011

Blending Breakfast Teas (1)

I have been doing some research while trying to create a range of Breakfast Tea blends to complement our very popular English Breakfast Tea.  This has partly been a matter of curiosity as I like, in a slightly anoraky way, reading old books on tea, s...

27 February 2011

Go On Enjoy A Bowl Of Bitter Organic Matcha Tea

"A bitter pill to swallow" is a classic idiom of the english language that implies that medicine often comes in the form of a bitter pill, but that it is worth suffering that taste for the benefits that should flow.  Life has changed and many bitter...

12 October 2010

Blending Christmas Tea

It is that time of year when customers are after our Christmas tea which is made to my own special recipe. 

30 July 2010

Biodegradable Tea Bags

It was brought to our attention recently that some tea bags are not really biodegradable as they use polypropylene glues to seal the edges of the tea bags.  This is only the case for tea bags that are heat sealed in the tea bagging process.  The tea...

16 June 2010

Teapigs - Clever Marketing By Tetley Tea

I had always wondered how Teapigs came from nowhere and were able to create a fabulous range of tea using really expensive Fuso tea bagging kit etc etc.

24 March 2010

Chinese Green Art Teas - Yin Yuan

I have received a few Chinese Green Teas that have been hand crafted into intricate shapes - they are called Art Teas or Flower Teas and they really do look exquisite.  And for those tea drinkers like me, who love the ceremony and artistry of the who...