17 June 2015

TEA TASTER PANEL Steenbergs English Breakfast Tea & Steenbergs Jasmine Green Tea

Many thanks to our tea taster panel who this month had the delights of tasting Steenbergs English Breakfast Tea: a strong, aromatic blend of organic Fairtrade teas from Sri Lanka and Assam, Kerala and Darjeeling in India; and Steenbergs Green Tea wit...

05 June 2015

What is Steenbergs’ carbon footprint?

We seek to offset our carbon footprint so it is pretty small.

27 May 2015

Recipe development - mother and son

Steenbergs is very much a family business, not just Axel and Sophie and their children, but also the people who work for us find their whole family have become part of the wider Steenbergs family.  Sally Roberts, who helps with recipe development at...

19 May 2015

What’s the carbon footprint of your cuppa?

It depends is perhaps the best answer.

12 May 2015

Time for Tea Post for May - Holly Shackleton, Deputy Editor for Speciality Food Magazine

This month we feature Holly Shackleton, deputy editor for Speciality Food Magazine.

27 April 2015

40 years on the shelf! The winner of our #oldestspice competition was… Pickling Spice from 1975

Our recent competition to find the oldest spice in your cupboards was an illuminating competition with some fascinating entries. We knew it had to be based on something with a dateline - so we plumped for best before dates which came in, in the 1970s...

20 April 2015

Time for tea with Ximena Del Castro, from the Fairtrade Living blog

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

25 March 2015

How much water is needed for a mug of coffee or tea?

The simple answer is not much – about 225ml.

13 March 2015

Time for Tea with @JasmineTrinity

Time for Tea – our regular chat with someone who cares about tea. This time it's with Jasmine Trinity owner of the Self-Sufficient Cafe - a virtual cafe which showcases tasty vegan recipes .

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 -

03 September 2014

Time for Tea with Jo @includingcake.com

Time for Tea – our monthly chat with someone who cares about tea - this time it's with Jo Hodson from including cake.com blog

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

13 June 2014

Spice Taster Panel - Ras Al Hanut and Organic Harissa with Rose

01 May 2014

Axel's and Sophie's quirky guide to running a small business

Here’s our list of things we have learnt over the last 10 years of running a small start-up and a guide to the way we do business. It’s all rather homespun and certainly will never find its way into books on how to run a successful business nor in an...

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...