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  • Debuting Little Woods Tea Catering

    Debuting Little Woods Tea Catering

    Little Woods is happy to announce the official launch of Little Woods Catering! We are now taking orders and reservations for brewed tea service for all sized groups and events. Whether you want to indulge your next book club, delight your baby shower guests, or thrill your wedding party of 100 with tea from Little Woods, we’ve got you covered. Our main goal is to provide every guest with a delicious cup of tea.


    Tea Catering Pick Up Menu

    Little Woods Catering Servings Price Cups Addon
    Insulated Tea Carafe
    1.25 liters / 42oz    		 5-6 servings $12.50 $3 add on
    Insulted Airpot
    3 liters / 100 oz    		 10-12 servings $20.00 $5 add on
    Insulated Dispenser
    5 gallons/ 640oz    		 80-90 servings $85.00 $20 add on
    Milk, sweetener & stirs
    (dairy or dairy free)    		 quart $4.00
    Honey Bear $5.50
    Snack Cups $1/per serving — choose from your shop favorites:
    Nori Maki, Stam Oublies, Chocolate Covered Ginger, Chocolate Covered Lemon Peel, Sea Salt Chocolate Almonds & Apricot

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    Note: special pricing applies for premium teas (aka Silver needle, pu’erh, Dark ‘n’ Lush, etc). Please note which premium tea you are interested in and we will send you a quote.

    Be green! Please note: to reduce waste, we do not offer disposable tea boxes. All tea is brewed into reusable insulated servers. We also encourage our tea customers to use their own mugs whenever possible instead of paper cups.

    Tea Catering Request Form

    Please fill out our catering form to tell us about your tea catering needs, and we will get back to you soon to coordinate your service. Thank you for supporting your local artisan tea shop!

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    Pickup and drop off only, and a refundable deposit for supplies will apply. To inquire on availability, please fill out the form above. If you’re looking for a next-day pickup, the best way to reach a Little Woods is to call them directly at 515-233-3838.

    Catering cancellation policy: Unless otherwise communicated, confirmed catering orders will be charged the full service fee if not canceled at least 48 hours before the event. Beyond that, orders canceled within 5 business days will be charged 50%, at least 5 business days notice is required for a full refund.

  • Experimenting with Coffee Cherry Tea

    Experimenting with Coffee Cherry Tea

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    Since it arrived, everyone in the shop has been dreaming up new ways to use Coffee Cherry Tea. Of course all the usual tea steeping ways. Iced tea with an elder flower syrup is phenomenal and definitely a favorite.

    Coffee Cherry Iced Tea

    • 7g coffee cherry tea (heaping teaspoon)
    • 4oz just boiled water
    • Steep 5 minutes
    • Strain into mason jar filled with ice and shake
    • Pour over ice
    • shot of botanical syrup (optional)

    Then Jason went and made it into a syrup. Whole. New. World.

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    At the shop we have an old timey spritzer bottle, so making Italian Sodas and Creamosas was an easy first step.

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    One of the fun things about Ames is the ISU Surplus Sale — where you can pick up all kinds of old lab equipment. We love using them to measure for our drinks and quantify our blends.

    Coffee Cherry Tea Italian Soda (Creamosa)

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    Making the coffee cherry tea into a syrup also lead to a most delicious steamer — milk and syrup steamed together.

    Coffee Cherry Tea Steamer

    1. 1oz shot of coffee cherry tea simple syrup
    2. 8oz milk
    3. Put together in pitcher, steam, dash of cardamon powder

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    And then someone was like – let’s pull shots!

    Coffee Cherry Tea Espresso Shot

    • 10g coffee cherry tea, tea cut
    • Red Espresso restricted flow porta filter
    • 30 sec pre-infusion

    So now, the entirety of our TeaEspresso menu that we developed with RedEspresso and yerba mate can be used with Coffee Cherry Tea. I over packed the porta filter, but still had good results. It’s more flexible than white espresso or rooibos. It bulks A LOT. One of the things that’s easy to forget about Coffee Cherry Tea is how fibrous it is.

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    Coffee Cherry Tea Latte

    • 2oz shot coffee cherry teaspresso
    • 6oz whole milk, steamed
    • shot simple syrup (cardamom is pretty delish)
    • dash apple pie spice on top

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    At Little Woods we do a lot of careful development of our menu… but sometimes inspiration strikes I drop something on the menu and get super lucky and it works out great… Thus the Tea Spritzer. I had fresh lemon balm from the garden. A new ol’ timey Water Seltzer bottle and we were debuting our new Tea Espresso menu. I wanted to put them all together. Thus the Tea Spritzer is born.

    Coffee Cherry Tea Spritzer

    1. A shot of Elder Flower Syrup.
    2. A Double Shot of Rooibos or coffee cherry tea.
    3. Shaken with ice.
    4. Seltzer water.
    5. Sprig of fresh aromatics like lemon balm or chocolate mint…. holy basil is also great.

    Coffee Cherry Tea (tea cut) we use in our espresso machine 

    Rooibos we use in our espresso machine

    Elder flowers we made our simple syrup with

    Last week Andrea was a guest teacher at Cook’s Emporium and co-taught a class on simple syrups. During the prep for the class we took a ton of photos of how we make our simple syrup for Little Woods, so we’ll be sharing the recipe for that here on the blog soon.

    Up next, our blends! Andrea knocked it out of the park with Oasis, debuting in our brick and mortar this afternoon.

    Until Next Time.