Why Steep Tea at Lower Temperatures?

Most tea experts agree that boiling water is too hot for tea. Theoretically, there's an ideal and precise temperature that each variety of tea should be brewed at.

Black tea, which is fully oxidized, is most forgiving with hot water and is not usually affected as much as green, jasmine, oolong and white teas.

For oolong tea, we usually recommend about 180 degrees, and for green, jasmine and white teas, maybe closer to 170.

But don't worry too much about it. Far more important is having fresh tea that's been kept airtight. Tea will steep at any temperature, but hotter water infuses faster. If you steep at 170 or 190, it's probably fine.

We recommend electric boiling pots. You can either boil the water and then add a little cold water, or catch it as it makes noise but before it boils.

If you have to use the microwave to heat your water, heat the water and then pour it over the tea leaves... it's best not to put the tea leaves in the microwave because the process is to pour hot water over the leaves. Steeping cups are the perfect way to do that.

The main idea is that perfect tea flavor changes when too hot for too long, because it cooks and loses the fresh, raw aftertaste.

Learn more about green tea at asktheteamaster.com.

Organic Tea and Health News Through Your Medium

New ways to follow tea industry and Dragon Pearl news: now you can follow us on Twitter for daily updates, as well as a brand new Facebook page (become a fan here).

Watch here for messages about new teas coming in, new harvests and new products, and breakthroughs in tea and cancer research.

New videos will be posted on YouTube, and photos and cool Dragon Pearl Tea photo puzzles on NatGeo.

You can also get direct news feeds via RSS and your choice of media.

Making Dragon Pearl's Super Natural Tea Shots

New 2-Ounce Green Tea Shots Are Extremely Powerful

We spent the last few days producing the very first Super Natural Energy tea shots... possibly the strongest liquid tea extract ever made.

Super Natural tea shots are made using potent organic green tea called Mao Feng ("fur tip"), the most powerful green tea we have ever tested. We decided to brew the tea with as many leaves as can possibly fit while being covered with hot water!

Judah and Scott watch the tea infusion carefully.


After being mixed with superjuices, the tea shots are flash-pasteurized
and slightly pressurized for freshness, then filled into baby wine bottles.


Circular labels are dropped onto the bottles, then hot air shrinks them tightly onto the surface.


A quality control technician examines the finished bottles.
Dozens of special Q/A procedures ensure the purity and packaging of the tea shots.


A machine grabs twelve bottles and drops them into the case box.


The final 12-pack boxes are inspected and closed. Ready to ship!

(More about Super Natural tea shots)

YES, the Most Interesting Man in the World Loves Tea

At an undisclosed location somewhere in LA, the Most Interesting Man in the World has a sip of Dragon Pearl Tea. "Wow, this is very authentic. Delicious."

It's Mutineer Magazine's newly-infamous annual Red Carpet Tasting party, where song and wine overrule any sense of snobbery, and where the coolness factor tests the scale.

It's all about the beverages which, combined, unavoidably form a party. Privileged to serve tea to some of the most interesting guests in LA, Judah and Leon served hot jasmine pearl green tea, iced tea and Super Natural Energy shots... which Mr. Goldsmith also loved.

Learn more about Mutineer Magazine at mutineermagazine.com.

And stay thirsty, my friends.

Peking Tea on NCIS Los Angeles

People keep asking us, "What's Peking Tea?" The script of the most recent episode of NCIS: Los Angeles included tea, and this time it was called Peking Tea. The tea they showed, of course, is actually Dragon Pearl Tea's jasmine pearl green tea, our most popular product.

Possibly worth mentioning here is our special offer: buy two and get a free Water Dragon loose-leaf steeper. And you can call it Peking Tea... we call it mo li hua cha: the Jasmine Dragon Pearl.

Dragon Pearl Tea at Expo West Food Show

Expo Attendees Amazed by Super Natural Energy

Last weekend Dragon Pearl Tea attended Expo West, a.k.a. The Natural Products Expo, America's largest trade show.

Hundreds of people stopped by our booth to try samples of our organic green tea and our new Super Natural Energy antioxidant tea shot.

Thank you thank you, all you who provided generous compliments and awesome feedback on our new product.

Judah and Chris serve our new green tea beverage on our solid jade tea table.

Our Super Natural green tea shot is currently scheduled for release next month.

Dragon Pearl Tea Visits with Forbes Riley

Dave, Judah and Leon had the privilege of meeting Forbes Riley today, and serving tea. She fell in love with the Ti Kwan Yin oolong, of course, and we also served fresh Dragon Pearl Mao Feng Green tea.

We exchanged new product demos, too. Here's Forbes' cool new exerciser, the Spin Gym. It's an amazing muscle-toning string with weights... very easy to use and fun.

Judah and Dave show off the Spin Gym.


Leon Youngblood with Forbes