Steep It Loose — WHOLE LEAF TEA

The best quality tea must have creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly swept by rain. – Lu Yu…

Metropolis Coffee is located in the heart of Denver, or the area called the Golden Triangle. Metropolis Coffee seems to be the softer side of Starbucks.  A coffee shop that is cozy and clam, surrounded by an arts and culture district and up and coming housing developments and therefore perfect for most anyone from the local student,…

So if you live in Denver you should know where Washington Park is, or more aptly known, as Wash Park.  However you may not know the little coffee shop a few blocks to the west of the park called Wash Perk! It is truly a blissful coffee shop and it has everything you could want.…

I guess I never realized how spoiled I really am when it comes to tea. Not a tea drinker before working for a loose leaf tea company, I never suffered through the early stages of the tea bag. Luckily I was overwhelmed with a veritable treasure-trove of loose leaf tea my first day on the…