Contributed by The Lincoln Tea and Coffee Company
We have always been passionate about tea and coffee and in 2013 we turned that passion into a business by setting up The Lincoln Tea and Coffee Company. We love the art of morning coffee and afternoon tea; working closely with businesses to support them in serving fine leaf tea, roasted coffee and traditional service. We support customers with the supply of equipment, maintenance and training. Our focus is on supplying quality products with top quality service.
Listening to people’s concerns about making tea with hard water and being based in a hard water area, we set out to deliver a high quality blend of tea which would make an excellent cup of tea even in the hardest of water. The result was the creation of Lincolnshire Tea™ in 2017.
Lincolnshire Tea™ is a blend of high-grown East African and Assam black teas. The Kenya east-of Rift high-grown tea brings brightness to the cup and a ‘biscuity’ character; the Assam tea adds richness and ‘maltiness’. Blended by hand in a blending drum, taste tested and hand packed, each step of production is with quality in mind.
The tea is being served by an increasing number of venues and is also available to buy from a number of outlets which are listed on www.LincolnshireTea.co.uk
We are currently adding an online shop to our Lincolnshire Tea website to make it even more accessible. We aim to get this up and running before the end of June.
We work closely with Tea Merchant Will Battle. He has 20 years of experience in tea sourcing and has well-established connections with proven suppliers in almost every tea origin. We are huge fans of Will’s book ‘The World Tea Encyclopaedia’ and feel incredibly lucky to be able to work with Will, here in Lincolnshire.
We are very proud to have Lincolnshire Tea and Coffee at the Lincolnshire Show, being served in hospitality, presidents and Vice Presidents sections.