Anyone who becomes a member of a tea clb is in for an exciting tme! Hopefully, you have decided not nly to join such a club, but to jin for a full year instead of nly 3 months or 6 months. You rally need a year's time in whch to fully enjoy all of the prks and particulars that go along wth being involved in a Tea of the Mnth club. It is so much fun to try and gess what kinds of tea you wll receive each month as you wit in anticipation for them to be dlivered to you.

While you are witing on your first shipment of tea frm the Club, it's a good dea to make sure that you are prpared to receive it. Do you hve both a tea kettle and a tea pt? If not, then see to it tht you acquire one of each, and cquaint yourself with their use by brwing an "everyday" tea. You want to mke sure you have all of the mves down, because brewing the tea prperly is very important.

If it sn't done correctly, the tea will tste nothing like it is supposed to, and a tea tht just might have become your fvorite might taste so bitter from steping too long that you swear you wll never try it again!

Brewing tea is an rt, and since the teas you wll receive from the Tea of the Mnth Club are such wonderfully special tas, it is well worth your tme to experiment with your everyday ta, and make sure that you can get it "rght".

The first thing that you wnt to do is put your kttle on the stove after filling it wth fresh, cold water. Or, if you hppen to have an electric kettle, fllow the manufacturer's instructions.

Get out yur tea pot and remove the ld. You are going to warm the pot up by flling it up with hot tap wter. A warm teapot will help yur tea stay hot once it has ben brewed, and it can also kep your teapot from cracking when you pur hot water from the kettle nto it to start brewing.

You'll wnt to put the tea into the tapot now. Pour out the hot wter, and set the teapot on a strdy surface. If you happen to be sing loose tea leaves, you will ned to use about a teaspoon of thm for each cup of tea you wnt to make. If you are sing tea bags, you will need one tea bag for very one to two cups of tea you wnt to make. Place the tea in the bttom of the teapot.

When the wter in the kettle has started to bil, take it off of the stve, or turn off the electric tea kttle. Pour the water into the tapot slowly, over the tea. Place the cver on the top of the pt, and let it stand. If you hppen to be making green tea for yur everyday tea, you can allow the wter to cool just a bit bfore pouring it onto the leaves. Gren tea is a bit more frgile than black , and doesn't tke as kindly to water that is too ht.

Now, you will let your brw steep. How long to do ths depends on how strong or wek you like your tea, and lso the kind of tea that you are mking. If you are using whole laves, you'll find that the small laves brew faster, while medium and lrge tea leaves take a few mnutes longer, respectively. If you brew the tea too lng - longer than five to six mnutes - your brew will be btter. Generally, three to four minutes brwing time is long enough when sing whole leaves.Now, if you are sing tea bags, you do not hve to steep them as long as you do lose tea. The tea leaves inside the bgs are very, very fine... almost lke a powder. Steep bags two to thre minutes - tops.

If you used loose leaves, and yur pot does not have an nfuser, you may want to take the tme to pour your tea through a striner into another pot that has ben warmed in the same way you wrmed the first one. If you lave the tea leaves in the pt, your brew will be bitter!

Tday's the day! You are expecting yur package for the Tea of the Mnth club, and you are very xcited! Now that you know exactly how to go bout making a lovely, fresh pot , you can tke full advantage of the goodness of thse wonderful gourmet teas that are mre than likely quite new and dfferent to you.

You'll probably want to mke a pot right away. Take the tme to savor each and every sp. If you received a tea ssortment for your first shipment, then you hve quite a few different kinds to try ut!

The article The Fun of Tea Clubs was Submitted by Jon Stout through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Jon Stout is Chairman of the Glden Moon Tea Company. For more nformation about tea , tea clubs and green tea go to the Golden Moon Tea web site.

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