52teas.com » Honeybush http://www.52teas.com Hand-Crafted Artisan Tea Blends: A new creation every week! Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:40:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Lemonbushomile http://www.52teas.com/2010/06/27/06-28-10-lemonbushomile-from-mysweethoneybush-com/ http://www.52teas.com/2010/06/27/06-28-10-lemonbushomile-from-mysweethoneybush-com/#comments Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:48:45 +0000 FrankH http://www.52teas.com/?p=2016 Here’s something a little different this week. If you have been watching 52teas for any amount of time, you’ll already be aware of my love affair with honeybush. Well, we have made it official and launched our newest brand and website: MySweetHoneybush.com.

I love creating new honeybush blends so much, that I decided we needed a new platform just for my honeybush blends. You will find all kinds of honeybush blends on the new website, with more to come. So, by way of introduction to the new site, here is our Tea of the Week for June 28th, 2010, MySweetHoneybush.com‘s Lemonbushomile.

And WOW, you guys are going to LOVE this. It is red honeybush blended with chamomile, lemongrass, lemon peel, hibiscus, lemon myrtle, and natural lemon flavors. It is SOOOO delicious and relaxing, hot or iced. Personally, I am not a huge chamomile fan, but blended with the sweet red honeybush, it is amazing!

So, go visit our new website to see all of the cool honeybush blends we are creating. The Lemonbushomile is available there and (temporarily) here. Enjoy!

Our Tea of the Week for the week of June 28, 2010

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New Contest!

No contest this week. Stay tuned for your next chance to win! Congratulations to last week’s winner, Oksana B., who won a free pouch of tea from 52teas!

]]> http://www.52teas.com/2010/06/27/06-28-10-lemonbushomile-from-mysweethoneybush-com/feed/ 0 05.24.10 Lemon Drop Cooler http://www.52teas.com/2010/05/25/05-24-10-lemon-drop-cooler/ http://www.52teas.com/2010/05/25/05-24-10-lemon-drop-cooler/#comments Tue, 25 May 2010 19:58:29 +0000 FrankH http://www.52teas.com/?p=1946 PUCKER UP! It’s our LEMONIEST blend yet!

Caffeine-free African Honeybush (Red AND citrusy green) blended with lemon peel, lemongrass, lemon verbena, lemon myrtle, lemon balm and natural flavors. It’s like an all-in-one Arnold Palmer! And it is delicious.

Your going to want a quiet hammock or a nice shade tree to lean on in the grass, oh and a good book. This tea is a great escape from the mundane.

Our Tea of the Week for the week of May 17, 2010

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So, our free pouch giveaway contest is going to change. From now on, one or more of our posts each month may contain an invitation like the one below. You must actually have the post in your email inbox to reply to in order to win, so if you haven’t already done so, please take a moment to fill in your name and email address under the “Join Our Mailing List” section on our website. You can opt-out any time you like.

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Our caffeine-free African Honeybush (I know this is two Honeybush blends in a row, but I couldn’t resist), blended with dried pineapple and just a touch of freeze dried cherries and natural flavors. We’ve included the natural essences of cake, pineapple, brown sugar and even a hint of maraschino cherry to top it all off.

Not only are we offering a great blend this week, but in honor of Mother’s Day, we will send it to your mom FREE with any gift Tea of the Week subscription. Now through Mother’s Day, order any Tea of the Week subscription (starting at just $47 for six weeks of tea delivered anywhere in the US or Canada), and we will send a pouch of our Pineapple Upside-Down Cake Honeybush as an added bonus! Check out our Tea of the Week plans HERE. Your mom will love you for it. (Well, okay, your mom will probably love you anyway, but I bet you would be her favorite for a little while!)

Our Tea of the Week for the week of April 19, 2010

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So, we really want you to subscribe to our email newsletter, and we want you to read the posts we send you. I may not be John Grisham, but I think I write some pretty stirring prose about our teas.

So, our free pouch giveaway contest is going to change. From now on, one or more of our posts each month may contain an invitation like the one below. You must actually have the post in your email inbox to reply to in order to win, so if you haven’t already done so, please take a moment to fill in your name and email address under the “Join Our Mailing List” section on our website. You can opt-out any time you like.

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The tenth individual (one reply per person, please) to reply to this post via email with the correct answer to the following question will receive a free pouch of tea! Question: According to www.trinigourmet.com the invention and popularity of pineapple upside-down cake had to wait until canned pineapples were available, which did not happen until Jim Dole perfected a method of tinning them in what year?

]]> http://www.52teas.com/2010/04/19/04-19-10-pineapple-upside-down-cake-honeybush/feed/ 0 Neapolitan Honeybush http://www.52teas.com/2010/04/12/04-12-10-neapolitan-honeybush/ http://www.52teas.com/2010/04/12/04-12-10-neapolitan-honeybush/#comments Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:32:48 +0000 FrankH http://www.52teas.com/?p=1904 It’s starting to warm up, so I hope you will forgive me if I got sidetracked thinking about ice cream, but wow, is this GOOD!

Our caffeine-free African Honeybush (If you are still not familiar with honeybush, it is very similar to Rooibos, but a bit sweeter and without the woody aftertaste that rooibos frequently has) blended with organic vanilla beans, organic cacao nibs, freeze-dried strawberry pieces and all natural flavors. This is a real treat hot or iced!

Our Tea of the Week for the week of April 12, 2010

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So, we really want you to subscribe to our email newsletter, and we want you to read the posts we send you. I may not be John Grisham, but I think I write some pretty stirring prose about our teas.

So, our free pouch giveaway contest is going to change. From now on, one or more of our posts each month may contain an invitation like the one below. You must actually have the post in your email inbox to reply to in order to win, so if you haven’t already done so, please take a moment to fill in your name and email address under the “Join Our Mailing List” section on our website. You can opt-out any time you like.

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The tenth individual (one reply per person, please) to reply to this post via email with the correct answer to the following question will receive a free pouch of tea! Question: According to Ask Yahoo! Neapolitan ice cream is the American version of spumoni, an Italian three-flavored ice cream featuring what three flavors?

]]> http://www.52teas.com/2010/04/12/04-12-10-neapolitan-honeybush/feed/ 0 2.1.10 (LATE!) Raspberry Cream Cheese Danish Honeybush http://www.52teas.com/2010/02/03/2-1-10-late-raspberry-cream-cheese-danish-honeybush/ http://www.52teas.com/2010/02/03/2-1-10-late-raspberry-cream-cheese-danish-honeybush/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:35:03 +0000 FrankH http://www.52teas.com/?p=1756 Sorry this post is so late this week. We just had our big Groundhog’s Day Party at Zoomdweebie’s yesterday. It’s the biggest event of the year for us. We sing Groundhog’s Day carols and have a guest speaker give a talk on a topic of importance to groundhogs. We have a scavenger hunt and eat some ground-hog and biscuits while we await the midnight appearance of the Great Groundhog. Anyway the planning and preparation and then the actual event itself sort of messed up my weekly routine, but I think you are going to find this week’s blend was worth the wait.

We’ve been working on this one for a couple of months now and I think we’ve finally gotten it perfect.

Our caffeine-free African honeybush blended with real freeze dried raspberries and all natural flavors. This blend is the complete danish in a cup: raspberries, cream cheese, even a hint of icing thrown in there. If you don’t believe me, you’ll just have to try it for yourself, but don’t take too long deciding, this one is going to go fast!

Our Tea of the Week for the week of February 1, 2010

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So, our free pouch giveaway contest is going to change. From now on, one or more of our posts each month may contain an invitation like the one below. You must actually have the post in your email inbox to reply to in order to win, so if you haven’t already done so, please take a moment to fill in your name and email address under the “Join Our Mailing List” section on our website. You can opt-out any time you like.

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The tenth individual (one reply per person, please) to reply to this post via email with the correct answer to the following question will receive a free pouch of tea! Question: The Danish pastry was actually adapted from what Austrian pastry? (Hint)

]]> http://www.52teas.com/2010/02/03/2-1-10-late-raspberry-cream-cheese-danish-honeybush/feed/ 0 09.21.09 Green Honeybush http://www.52teas.com/2009/09/22/09-21-09-green-honeybush/ http://www.52teas.com/2009/09/22/09-21-09-green-honeybush/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:50:03 +0000 FrankH http://www.52teas.com/?p=1246 Before I ever create new blends with ingredients I am unfamiliar with, I have to infuse the individual ingredients separately, so I get an idea what I am working with. Some components are actually pretty good on their own (I recently tried a licorice root infusion for a blend we are working on that will have licorice root in it; and it was actually decent just by itself). On the other hand, some items just really need to be blended with something else. Clove and anise infusions are too much for me. But occasionally, we run across a new ingredient that is so startlingly delicious, like this green honeybush, that I just have to offer it up by itself to let you see how great it is.

The green honeybush, like the oxidized red honeybush, is naturally sweet, like a Chinese green tea, but with a slight hint of lemony citrusy goodness. I found it very refreshing as an iced beverage, and look forward to hearing what you guys think.

You may recall me telling you in previous posts that honeybush is an African evergreen shrub, very similar to the rooibos plant. It is 100% caffeine free and packed with anti-oxidants and other healthy stuff. If you are interested in learning more about honeybush and it’s properties, please check out this site operated by the Agricultural Research Council of South Africa.

Our Tea of the Week for the week of September 21:

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I’ve been going a little bit honeybush crazy lately because I just recently started creating blends with honeybush, and it is fabulous stuff to work with. Our Pina Colada Honeybush remains one of my ALL TIME favorite blends. Please do forgive me if I’ve been a bit overzealous about the honeybush, I promise to take a break from it next week, but I was dying to see how a pomegranate honeybush blend would come out, and guess what? It came out FABULOUS!

Our pomegranate blends are so popular, I think, because we are the only blender (that I know of anyway) that uses real freeze dried pomegranate arils and all natural flavoring in our pomegranate blends.

I’m sure if you really want this as a hot tea, it would be great that way, but I think this one is going to blow your socks off as an iced tea. Make up an icy pitcher for your friends and family and there’s no way this blend will fail to impress.

As always, this is a limited edition blend, so get yours while you can!

Our Tea of the Week for the week of August 17, 2009:
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I got the freeze-dried orange sections in a few weeks ago and have been itching to use them in a blend ever since. Everybody else has orange peel in their blends, but we found actual, nothing-added freeze-dried orange sections. This blend is going to knock your socks off.

Our Featured Tea of the Week for the Week of 7/6/09

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Below you will find the original post I wrote for this tea more than a year ago now. Note that I mentioned even then that I thought we would be entering it into the World Tea Championships (Now known as the North American Tea Championships). Well, we did enter it, our ONLY entry into the competition, and it placed third in the Flavored Herbal Teas category!

If you have not had the chance to try this tea yet, you are cheating yourself out of a wonderful experience. It is as amazing hot as it is iced. Enjoy!




We create a lot of different blends here on 52teas. It is one of the things I absolutely love most about my job is experimenting with new flavor combinations and creating new and unique blends. I have to admit that some of our experiments are more successful than others. Some of the blends we create are good, some are great, and a few, like this week’s Tea of the Week, are just phenomenal!



Sweet African honeybush appears to be MADE for tropical flavors. Combine it with dried pineapple, unsweetened coconut flakes and a touch of rum flavor, and you’ve got a tea so soothing, relaxing and pleasing to the senses, that, like I wrote on the label, you ought to be required to sip it from a hammock on the beach.


We hope this tea blows you away as much as it did us. I’m seriously thinking this might be one to enter into the World Tea Championships next year. Enjoy!


Our Tea of the week for the week ending 06.21.09

Pina Colada Honeybush

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