Thanksgiving is great! Quality time with family (I guess this could be both a good and bad thing 😅), loads of delicious food (especially the dessert), and great Black Friday deals and savings (check OBTC out!!). Sometimes, it is easy to eat a little too much, or the L-Tryptophan hits a little too hard - am I right?? Our Pecan Pie Pu Erh is the perfect tea to enjoy after Thanksgiving dinner for several reasons! Our Pecan Pie is a pu erh tea mixed with black tea, safflower, natural pecan flavor, natural maple flavor, and fresh pecans grown in Las Cruces, NM.I mentioned in another blog posts that pu erh tea is my absolute favorite type of tea because of its health benefits! Pu erh tea is a fermented tea that has oxidized for a period...
One of our favorite fall seasonal blends is our Pumpkin Pie Chai! As some of our seasoned guests may know, this blend comes out around the month of September and will be available throughout the fall, until the stores run out of their supply at the end of the season. We blended this year’s batch a little differently, and we were so excited to release it a few weeks ago! The Pumpkin Pie Chai is a honeybush tea base, which makes this blend caffeine free and can be enjoyed anytime throughout the day! Honeybush tea is a South African herb that is high in minerals and antioxidants, a natural expectorant, helps lower blood sugar, reduces blood lipids, and alleviates menopausal symptoms.Our blend this...
Pu Erh teas are my favorite class of teas! Before I became a part of the OBTC Family, I never even knew what a Pu Erh Tea was, similarly to many of our guests that walk into our stores daily! Pu erh teas come from the Camellia sinensis plant, like other tea leaves, and it has been aged, oxidized and fermented before drying. During the fermentation process, healthy microbes and microflora are present. This healthy bacteria is the same healthy bacteria found in yogurt that helps our digestive system function properly. Because of those microbes and healthy bacteria, drinking a cup of Pu erh tea helps with digestion, metabolism, bloating and weight loss. In fact, Pu erh tea is known on Instagram as the “Slim Tea.”Pu Erh Teas have a rich...