2024 Festival-in-a-Box

Your 2024 Cascadia Tea Festival-in-a-Box experience includes your own white bunny tea pet, a small tea towel, konpeito candy, stickers, and eight tea samples from sponsors and vendors of the Cascadia Tea Festival.

Osmanthus the Tea Bunny has been the mascot of Cascadia Tea Festival since our first year and we're delighted to send you your own copy of Osmanthus to share tea with you. We hope you'll enjoy these teas together and feel like part of the Cascadia Tea Festival community.

TeaJTea: Vietnamese Jasmine Green

Description:

Venture through the exquisite nuances of Vietnamese Jasmine Green Tea, an emblem of traditional elegance and mastery. This tea takes you on a journey to the heart of Vietnam, where dedicated tea makers nurture each jasmine flower in their organic gardens, ensuring a sensory experience unparalleled in its authenticity.

The TeaJTea tea brewing guide can be found on the TeaJTea website here featuring Western style, Gong Fu style, and Grandpa style brewing.

Crimson Lotus Tea: Imperial Grade Shou

This is an imperial grade shou puerh. That means the leaf material is entirely buds. You can see that clearly in the pictures. This tea comes on dark quickly! The buds always brew fast. There are strong mineral notes in this tea with some balanced bitterness and astringency characteristic of Bulang.

In general bud heavy blends don't last as many steeps as other blends with larger leaves. You'll get about 8 really nice steeps and then it becomes very sweet. It's very drinkable after that but the real magic happens in the early steeps.

Brewing Instructions

Use 5-10 grams of leaves and brew with 75-150ml ( 2.5-5oz ) of water at or near boiling. Rinse once for a few seconds. Start with quick steeps under 10s. With each re-steep adjust the steep time to your taste.

Friday Afternoon Tea: Orange Blossom Oolong

This blend is available 3/1-6/3 in our Spring seasonal rotation!

A breath of cheerful orchard air dances over your tastebuds and fills your face with the aroma of smiling blossoms. Steep after steep, this delicious green oolong will bring you flowers all day long.

Ingredients: Rolled green oolong tea, orange blossom, osmanthus flower, gold lustre dust

Approximately 50mg of caffeine per cup
Brewing Instructions
Steep at 185° F or 85°C for 2-4 minutes.

Saku: Golden Chai

Golden Chai features the power of turmeric + a perfectly balanced mixture of fragrant spices. Turmeric is savory, delicious and highly revered as a potent herb. Ginger adds a gentle, warming kick.

Our original blend & bestseller
Organic & GMO free
Anti-inflammatory & anti-oxidant rich
Anti-aging, boosts cardiovascular health & brain health
Sugar, Soy & Gluten Free
Vegan

Organic ingredients:
turmeric, ginger, cardamom, cinnamon, black pepper & clove

For a perfect cup of Golden Chai…

Mix 1 tsp SAKU Golden Chai with a splash of hot water.
Stirring, add 12oz of your favorite hot milk.
Enhance with sweetener of your choice (optional).

See videos showing how to make SAKU lattes at home here

Floating Leaves: House Roast Dong Ding

A toasty, nutty roasted oolong for daily drinking. It is ready to drink as is, and will mellow out over time.

Our philosophy on how to brew tea is intuition based. Learn more detail about how to brew our teas here.

How to Brew A Good Pot of Floating Leaves’ Tea

Boil Water
Pre-heat teaware and cups
Place appropriate amount of dry leaves in the heated vessel to steam them awake
Pour hot water into the vessel, wait until it’s ready, then decant
Repeat & enjoy!

LaConner Tea Company: Various Teas

Our Mission is to provide the highest quality of luxury tea and accoutrements as we strive to produce blends that are unique to the palate and soothing to the soul.

We proudly work with estates and gardens holding Ethical Tea Partnership standards.

Brewing Instructions

For a perfect cup of tea.

• Use one teaspoon per cup.

• Fill your cup with prepared hot water.

• Dip your tea bag filter or strainer into your cup and steep according to tea type.

• Steep Black and Herbal tea 5 to 7 minutes at full boil temperature.

• Steep Green and White tea 2 to 3 minutes in "Just before Boiling," water.

• Luxury whole leaf tea prefers being dipped rather than poured over.

Enjoy your cup of calm ❤︎

Sugimoto: Sencha and Genmai cha

Matcha Genmaicha tea

Roasted rice, sencha green tea leaves, and matcha come together in this blend to create a brilliant green cup of nutty, toasty genmaicha goodness. Spring and early summer leaves provide a hint of grassiness, while the matcha supplies a smooth, creamy umami. Our Matcha Genmaicha has half the leaves of our Sencha and therefore half the caffeine, meaning you can peacefully enjoy all 3 steepings anytime of day. Each tea bag is good for a 12 oz cup of tea.

Brewing Instructions

Hot Brew Preparation

1 Tea Bag

12 oz (350 ml) water at 175 °F+

Steep for 1 min

Cold Brew Preparation

1 Tea Bag

12 oz (350 ml) Ice Water

Steep for 15 min

Special Thanks

Special thanks to Being Tea, who made the Festival-in-a-Box possible this year through their sponsorship and mentorship on building out our inclusive experiences for our community. Thanks to all of the festival sponsors and vendors who contributed tea samples so everyone could taste along with some of the same teas we'll drink at the in-person event.

And thank you to you, for sharing tea with us and your patience as we figure out what goes into preparing and mailing out a festival experience that you can enjoy from anywhere.