Episode 079 - Tea Cocktails

In this conversation with Brittany and Joe from Wight Tea Co., we cover a broad range of tea-related topics, including:

• How a sibling joke in the midst of a recession kicked off a decade-long collaboration to create delicious tea blends for home consumers
• The agricultural origins of tea, which share many things in common with the way we think about wines and spirits as agricultural and human-processed products.
• The difference between a tea, a tisane, and a chai
• Quality indicators to look for when selecting your next tea or matcha at the store
• How to use teas in cocktails, toddies, and punches with an eye toward pairing a blended herbal product with a distilled spirit
• And much, much more