Holiday Kickoff Teas to Carry You From Thanksgiving to New Year’s
Happy Thanksgiving! May your table serve as a stage for much family and friendship conviviality. We hope the turkey breast remains moist, the pie crusts turn golden, the mashed potatoes escape the curse of gluiness and the wine pairs beautifully with the feast’s many components. As mentioned last week, don’t forget about tapping tea for digestive assistance! There’s still time this week to snag some of our outstanding digestive teas, including any of our pu-erhs, teas containing ginger and even custom digestion-oriented teas like Tummy Tea.
When you wake up—groggy, still stuffed—on Friday morning, you have officially entered the full force of the holiday zone. Black Friday greets your morning, and the next day we revel in Small Business Saturday. The following four weeks represent the sales spine of the entire year for most retailers, including us.
Shop local!
Of course we sell tea year-round, and work hard to educate potential customers about the many splendors of tea. Without our daily toil across all seasons, we wouldn’t own tea shops today. That said, the holidays stand apart for their importance. Think of them as a desperately needed boost during the last two miles of a marathon. Minus the holiday support, many retailers would never cross the finish line. In fact, many businesses do call it quits when January arrives and the holidays have passed. If they don’t make enough during December, they just give up.
So let’s all support as many small businesses as we can this season! For our many loyal Colorado customers, we’re here for you in brick-and-mortar as well as online. For our customers in Seattle and New York, in Dallas, Milwaukee and Montreal, we may not be local, but we sure are small! Ku Cha has stood as a family-owned business since it got started, more than 20 years ago. We aim to still be here in another 20 years!
Here’s to the holidays—speaking of which, Happy Holidays!
Holiday Kickoff Teas: A Wonderful Christmas Chai
Keen to magnify the spirit of the holidays? We’ve got just the ticket—our A Wonderful Christmas Chai. This fabulous blend packs a TON of seasonal flavor into every sip. Black tea, yerba mate and rooibos provide the scaffolding. To that structure we add (deep breath): cinnamon, ginger, rosemary, cardamom, peppercorn, orange peel, clove, cumin, red chile flakes, bay leaf, cayenne, cacao, chocolate and coconut. That’s about as holiday-focused as you can get! You’ll brew a pot of this. People will polish it off in minutes. Time for another round. It won’t last long. This parade of tea-brewing will persist across the holidays. Everybody will clamor for A Wonderful Christmas Chai.
Holiday Kickoff Teas: Christmas Cookie Blend
They’ve arrived—the weeks leading up to the end of December, when people across the country stock up on flour, butter and sugar, and commence turning that base into a wilderness of cookie variations. Some lean into peppermint and chocolate. Others go all-in for jam—thumbprints, anyone? The diversity of styles staggers, which is one of the things we adore about the Christmas cookie flood. Never dull!
This season add our Christmas Cookie Blend to the holiday festivities. This beaut of a tea contains rooibos, almond, pineapple, rosemary, apple, rose hip, walnuts, anise, cinnamon, pink pepper, dragon fruit, beetroot and gold stars crafted from sugar. What a treat! Thinking about lacing it with cream and honey? That’s a fine idea, friend. Chances are you’ve never tasted a liquid cookie before—now’s your chance! And you get to control just how sweet you’d like it. It’s exceptional, too, without sweetener of any stripe.
Holiday Kickoff Teas: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Rooibos
Hats off to the Ku Cha staffer who came up with this name for a holiday tea. Well done! This blend wins our hearts every holiday season. The earthy rooibos provides stout structure, a background bass note that invites the rest of the ingredients to shine. For additional flavors, our Rudolph the Red-Nosed Rooibos adds cinnamon, lemon, orange peel and clove. And then comes the twist—St. John’s wort, a flower commonly prescribed across Europe and other regions to combat depression. We know the holidays spark joy in many people. But some people shrink from the festivities. Memories of holidays past can sink them into depression. While our tea is not going to address any serious mental health challenges, we think the combination of flavor and St. John’s wort can boost moods. We’ll take it! This caffeine-free beauty is sweet (without sugar), fruity and spicy warm. Every sip has the potential to ripen a smile.
Holiday Kickoff Teas: Chocolate Orange Blend
The holidays reacquaint many of us with flavor combinations. We might not eat a whole lot of peppermint and chocolate in midsummer, for example, but once the holidays hit, it can become a near-daily experience. One combination that we embrace with special warmth: chocolate and orange. Somehow the conversation between chocolate’s deep, round notes and orange’s star-bright zip bewitches us—utterly. So that’s why we came up with our Chocolate Orange Blend. In addition to three kinds of tea—black tea, rooibos and yerba mate—this blend contains orange peel, chocolate and cocoa. Perfect! We make it even more spellbinding with the addition of yogurt (for creamy mouthfeel), coconut, vanilla, cinnamon and black pepper. What a dream of a tea!
