Carrot Cake Rooibos & White Hot Chocolate

Short & sweet, this simple addition to almost any tea can bring some delicious variety into your day!

Honeybee Chia Milk Tea

Every now and again I get a request from my coworkers at Murchie’s head office to mix up some “bubble tea” - an absolute pleasure as we have access to so many different tea types. The key, I’ve discovered, is to replace the traditional large tapioca pearls with chia seeds. Simply adding a bit of hot water to chia seeds yields a delightful (and healthy) alternative with a fun mouthfeel in seconds...

Tasting Lab: No. 9

One of the more difficult aspects of reviving old recipes from our Blend Book, is that styles of tea production have changed over the years. For the particularly old blends, sometimes there's not a perfect analogue in available teas today. This leaves recipes open to interpretation, and can result in a lot of variation.

Earl Grey Chocolate Mug Cakes

Happy New Year! Here’s to optimising flavour while keeping things simple in the kitchen with this Earl Grey chocolate mug cake recipe!

Tasting Lab: Okanagan Caravan

For 2023, I was able to bring back and showcase two discontinued blends from recent years. For 2024, I'm continuing that trend with our first tea of the year, but this time going back even further. Hidden in our blend book is a bold, malty, smoky tea that's perfect for fans of smoky Lapsang Souchong, Russian Caravan, Scottish Breakfast, and Storm Watcher.

It's only been just over half a year since the Tasting Lab project launched, and we've sampled four teas so far: two brand new blends, and two returning classics. From that, we've received a lot of feedback and kind words that have helped shape 2024's lineup. I'm looking forward to exploring even older blends (not seen in half a century!), and a couple interesting single-origin sourcings. We'll see where tasting takes us this year!