Hiatus
nerdiTEA has been on a slight hiatus for the past few weeks, for personal reasons.
We expect to be back up and recording new reviews within a week or two, so keep checking back!
In the meantime, we’d love to know if our readers/viewers have any suggestions for types of tea, tea vendors, tea products, etc. that you would like to see reviewed! We’re also open to ideas for articles related to tea, e.g. brewing techniques, making iced tea, etc.
Leave us a comment, let us know what you think!
And, as always, you can follow Jess on Twitter, twitter.com/nerdiTEA, for updates and general nonsense. 
I think it’d be cool to see reviews on “packaged” teas. Bottled stuffs. Thoughts?
*proves ignorance after realizing you just did that*
We can always do more! Any particular brands, flavors, characteristics (organic, unsweetened, etc), etc that you’d like to see?
Some reviews from the tea vendor samovarlife might be nice. I am planning on trying them out in the near future.
Thanks for the suggestion, Kirk! We’ll look into ordering something from samovarlife to review.
+1 for samovarlife
) and one of their senchas, maybe you could suggest which one you would buy.
been wanting to try their maiden’s ecstasy puerh (too bad your not a fan of puerhs
+1 for redleaftea
picked up a red tea (rooibos) sampler and really enjoyed their green rooibos and Africana rooibos.
I would LOVE to know how to make iced tea. I’ve always wanted to try but had no idea where to start!
The southern way? Boil a sauce pot of water. Remove from heat, and insert two regular ol’ tea bags – cover. Wait ten minutes. Put the pot in a pitcher, and then two more pots of cold water the same depth as the original pot.
Add between 1/3 cup and 1 cup of sugar depending on how adventurous you are.
Add ice.
Ta daaa!!
Thanks! I’ll definitely try this – a lot simpler than other recipes I’ve found.
You could try cold brewing:
Get a jar or pitcher and fill it with cool water then just add 1.5 times the amount of leaf you would for normal hot brewing (you could use less or more depending on how strong you want it), let sit in your fridge for about 4-6 hours, strain and enjoy. If you want it sweet add the sugar once you strain it or just make a simple syrup. Paper or cloth teabags also work if you don’t want to have to strain it.
I’d like to follow your blog and look forward to future posts. Where have you been? I’ve started to see you on Twitter. I’m a newly budding tea lover…
You’ll enjoy this tea video:
http://www.teaguyspeaks.com/2006/06/tea-blog-list.html