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  • Holiday Happenings at the Shop

    Holiday Happenings at the Shop

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    Every holiday season Little Woods gets into the spirit with a mix of live music, social fun, tea sampling, and -of course- sales! Here are all the fun things happening around our shop in Downtown Ames, Iowa. Any sale discounts will also be reflected online. Go to the bottom of the list for holiday special hours and closures too. Happy Holidays!

    Mingle on Main
    Thursday Evenings thru Christmas, 5 – 7pm
    Free brewed tea w/ Tea Tin Purchase

    Holiday Tunes & Tea
    Sat. Nov 24, Dec 8, Dec 15, 11am – 1pm
    Live piano with Elizabeth Zimmerman
    Add Holiday Tea & Tunes to your Facebook Event Calendar.

    Black Tea Friday Sale
    Friday, Nov. 23, 9am – 7pm
    All black tea 20% off

    Small Business Saturday Sale
    Saturday, Nov. 24, 9am – 7pm
    All Tea Blends 20% off
    Stocking Stuffer Sale: 2 for $6
    prepackaged tea blend samples.

    Holiday Open House
    Saturday, Dec. 1, 1 – 4pm
    Stocking Stuffer Sale
    Holiday Tea Debut
    Tea of the Month Release
    Meet the Little Woods Family
    10% off EVERYTHING
    Add Little Woods’s Open House to your Facebook Event Calendar.

    Christmas Eve Tea & Cookies
    Monday, Dec. 24, 10am – 2pm
    Stop by for Complimentary Tea and Cookies with the Little Woods Family

    Holiday Special Hours
    Thanksgiving Eve: 9am – 4pm
    Thanksgiving: Closed
    Christmas eve: 10am – 2pm
    Closed Dec. 25 & 26
    Closed Jan. 1, 2019

  • Brewing: Coffee Cherry Tea (aka Cascara)

    Brewing: Coffee Cherry Tea (aka Cascara)

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    This is some exciting news. We’ve partnered with Coffee Flour™ to bring their new Coffee Cherry Tea to the US online retail market place. In addition to selling Coffee Cherry Tea online, we are developing a new line of herbal tea blends featuring this unique ingredient. Our first two are debuting this Friday.

    We’ve decided to show you everything we’ve learned about Coffee Cherry Tea this week. How to brew it, what it is, why it’s awesome. And of course, have a sale. Coffee Cherry Tea is 20% off now through the weekend.

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    So first things first. What is it?

    Coffee Cherry Tea is tea cut cascara, the fruit and skin of the coffee cherry, but no bean. Unlike all the other cascara we’ve sampled (thanks to our neighbor Morning Bell Coffee Roaster), Coffee Cherry Tea is handled with care during the entire process. No funk. No mold. No, ummm, floor sweepings. Completely food safe. It’s bright and tart. Notes of cherry. A touch of coffee on the finish. It’s flavor straddles coffee and a rooibos with a touch of hibiscus. There’s a little caffeine, less than roasted coffee by the brewed cup.

    Brewing Coffee Cherry Tea

    Immediately we started experimenting with it. We found it does better brewed like tea than coffee. Thursday we’ll be showing you all our experiments – like pulling shots, pour over, aeropress brewing, and making it into simple syrups.

    We wanted to figure out the best steeping ratio, tea:water:heat:time. We sampled it around to a few regulars and our staff. It was a fun impromptu tasting and we captured the final round for the timing.

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    For at home, we found the french press is best… but we always say that. It’s our favorite type of brewing vessel! Completely bias.

    In a french press: 8-9g for a 12oz french press = 1 heaping Tablespoon

    In a tea ball: 5-6g (1 heaping teaspoon) for a 8-10oz mug

    In a tea pot: 1 heaping teaspoon per person and 1 for the pot

    Steep Time: 4-6 minutes

    Water Temperature: 205 – 212F

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    It holds up to cream well and is divine with a little honey.

    Up next, why we love it — other than just it’s flavor — a sneak peek into the ethics behind this new brew!

    Until Next Time