For Tea Time Tuesday, we shot this new video for you single serve coffee fans...

If you are a K-Cup fan and have a Keurig brewer, it's very simple to make your own loose leaf tea brew. Coffeewiz has a delectable assortment variety of loose leaf tea and now wants to show you a very elegant simple solution for enjoying the experience of your own whole leaf tea personal brew.

This month, I have been sampling the loose leaf tea product line that Coffeewiz carries on their website. I tested the Coffeewiz Glass Tea Cup With Glass Strainer in the Keurig Home Brewer.

I brewed the Kings Earl Grey loose leaf tea in the glass tea cup, and pressed the large cup button. I am mainly avid coffee drinker, and a single serve fan, with both a Keurig and Tassimo brewer at home, but I like to keep an open mind and try something new - a little variety.

The Keurig dispensed the perfect amount for a single serve cup. Although the aroma of the fresh loose leaf brew was intoxicating, I closed the glass tea cup with the glass cover and let the brew steep for a minute, as I like my tea on the lighter side. But you can brew the tea to your personal taste - it's your choice.

I then took the glass tea strainer out of the glass and a perfect cup of loose leaf tea remained, with the leaves unfurled in the strainer. I saw lavender blossoms on top of the green tea leaves. While it was a beautiful sight, I prefer to keep my leaves separate from the tea I drink, so the strainer is a nice solution. The strainer has tiny glass slits that allow the water to pass, but keep the leaves behind in the neat little strainer.

The Single Serve Glass Tea Cup Loose Leaf Tea Experiment was a success. Please share your thoughts and comments with us, as we plan to roll out a Coffeewiz sample pack that includes A Glass Tea Cup and 4 FREE loose leaf tea samples! What do you think?

Sure, Coffeewiz is in the single serve coffee market, but did you know that we have an exclusive selection of imported Loose Leaf Teas?

You've tried tea bags, but have you ever brewed a cup of fresh whole leaf tea?

We know that you enjoy your single serve brew, whether it's K-Cups, Tassimo, Dolce Gusto, Lavazza and a wide variety of Coffee Pods, but have you indulged in the simple pleasure of whole loose leaf tea?

You might have heard of some of the health benefits this miracle plant has to offer, such as lowering cholesterol, or maybe even the benefits of weight loss and overall wellness. There's no doubt that we single serve coffee and tea lovers can't resist the temptation of the easy push of a button for a single serve brew, but did you ever wonder if these methods fall short in delivering the best tea has to offer? What can we be missing?

Coffeewiz Jaf loose leaf tea is imported from Sri Lanka.

Each region and elevation in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) provides teas of distinct taste, flavor and appearance. Every tea product within the Jaf Tea brand assortment is specially selected by master tea tasters who appraise almost 12,000 lots of tea weekly to find the ideal ones.

It is the supreme skill of the tea taster that ensures a consistent quality tea, regardless of weather patterns or seasonal variations at origin, every time the consumer buys a product. Within days of manufacture teas are packed at source to preserve the quality and freshness of the fine quality tea product.

I tried the Gunpowder Ceylon Green Tea recently, and even posted a video on Youtube of the brewing process, and how I did it. I had never brewed a cup of whole leaf tea before and was surprised at how easy it was. And how good it tasted. It was very different than the usual green tea bag experience I was used to, and I want to open your world to the experience of trying whole leaf tea.

DID YOU KNOW? Cinnamon was the first crop to receive government sponsorship in Ceylon, while the island was under Dutch control in the 1700s?

There's a whole tea story rich with culture and history. Please subscribe to our blog and check out Tea Time Tuesdays for our newest feature! And check us out on Facebook to join the discussion forums and to share your thoughts, comments and suggestions with our community!

There is so much to talk about in the world of coffee...In my social media role, I get to learn about all of the coffee and tea you can find at Coffeewiz, and then share a conversation with you about it. I was told that if I had one for every day of the year, I still wouldn't be able to try them all!

Before I choose my daily single serve cup of coffee, or daily whole loose leaf tea brew, I wonder where it came from. I know it didn't grow on a single serve tree!

I'm fascinated with cultures and ceremonies that countries have for their specific brew. Understanding them helps me appreciate the experience so much more, and I want to share just a little bit of that with you.

Just the other day as I was brewing a Caribou Sumatra Coffee K-Cups in my Keurig brewer, I asked my husband, "Where is Sumatra?" wanting to start a conversation. He said "I took it to work." What he was thinking of was the Tassimo Starbucks Africa Kitamu T-Discs, the package that he had taken for his office coffee pool. I was surprised to learn that Sumatra and Africa were all the same to him! He just knew they referred to a coffee and came in a box, ready to brew. And as I thought about it, I wasn’t quite sure I could point out Sumatra on a map…

So with that, I thought I'd share with you cultures from around the world, both coffee and tea - the STORY behind your favorite brew.

I was introduced to the Ethiopian coffee ceremony experience about 7 years ago, and fell in love with the food, too. It's definitely a culture of community, as you'll see in this video. Beans are ground by hand, and family and friends wait patiently. It is an HONOR to be invited! I am entranced everytime the server brings around a pan of freshly roasted beans for us to just smell. Imagine, getting the chance to put in an extra step and actually take time to smell the coffee – just as if they were like roses.

Did you see the goat at the opening of the video? I always loved the story of coffee was discovered in Ethiopia, when the goats would get their caffeine fix on, and the herder realized there was magic in them there coffee beans!

I thought Andrew Zimmern did a good representation of the exotic Ethiopian coffee ceremony. I know firsthand that it's very different than what you would experience with the touch of a button, and brew of a single serve coffee.

I hope that taking a peek into cultures around the world will make your single serve coffee and tea a much richer experience.

Do YOU have a story you’d like to share about coffee and/or tea culture? Please share your comments on this blog, or write me at Vickie@coffeewiz.com.