Ceylon Tea Guides

Practical guides to specialty Ceylon tea from the people who grow and make it by hand in the Kandy District of Sri Lanka.

• What Are Silver Tips? A Guide to Ceylon's Rarest White Tea

  What are silver tips tea? How Ceylon silver tips are hand-picked and made, what they taste like, how to brew them and why they're so rare.

• Silver Tips vs Golden Tips: What's the Difference?

  Silver tips vs golden tips: both are hand-picked Ceylon tea buds, but processing changes their colour, flavour and brewing. A clear comparison.

• How to Brew Handmade Ceylon Tea

  How to brew Ceylon tea properly: water temperatures, steeping times and amounts for silver tips, golden tips, green tea and handmade black tea.