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If you had an 8-oz glass of orange juice with breakfast this morning, it was an extra 100 calories added to your day.  If you’re only drinking one, that’s perfectly reasonable.  But, if you’re drinking it all day long, those calories can quickly add up.  The more alarming part of that same glass of juice is that it probably contained about 20 grams of sugar.  To put that number into better perspective, a Hershey’s chocolate kiss has 22.  Clearly, if you’re drinking a glass of juice with every meal, that starts to be a problem.    Sugar isn’t an issue,...

Autumn clearly calls for a warm cup of loose leaf tea. The leaves are changing, your drive home is suddenly happening at sunset, and mornings are starting to feel a little chilly.  But, alas, this cup of tea can’t possibly be the Bella Coola you’ve been drinking all summer.  The change of seasons, along with its change of closets and leaves involves a whole changes of lifestyle.  If you’re feeling a little overwhelmed when you just thought you finally had this tea thing figured out, or are just looking for a few recommendations, here are a few teas which I personally...

You may have noticed, either or in our shop or online, small, odd-looking dishes, always with lids, and sometimes on saucers.  While these dishes can range from primitive and earthy to ornately decorated, they all seem to have one thing in common-- they intimidate tea novices.  Something about the traditional Chinese gai wan feels foreign, like you’re going to use it incorrectly, offend someone, and probably burn yourself in the process.  In this post, I’d like to ease those fears, and explain exactly how simple and not-at-all scary gai wans are.   Gaiwans can be used to both brew and...

Some customers of ours really liked our Hot Cinnamon Spice tea.  By this, we mean that they liked it even more than most people like Hot Cinnamon Spice.  They actually liked it so much that they tried adding it to a beer in their home microbrewery.  The resulting ale was good enough for them to bring it to VB Brewery, who then also liked it enough to put the unusual beer on tap.  Fireball ale is apparently served with a Fireball candy, and in spite of the competing flavors of the cinnamon and beer, the taste of rich, black tea...