Amba Thieves Tea (Sri Lanka)

2 oz. (25 cups) or 8 oz. (100 cups) This is a brisk, full bodied black tea with a story. Instead of being processed by machinery, it is pounded in a vangedi stone mortar—the way estate workers make their tea at home. The name comes from an old practice of workers secretly bringing home raw leaves from the fields to make their own tea this way. It has notes of brown sugar, malt, orange peel, and dark chocolate.Brewing instructionsAmount: 1 teaspoon of loose tea per cup of waterTemperature: 205 ̊ (Just off the boil)Steep time: 3 minutes About Our Sri Lankan TeaFormerly called Ceylon, the island of Sri Lanka has produced some of the finest tea in the world for the last 150 years. While the tea industry survived Sri Lanka’s 30-year-long civil war intact, it has also bolstered the entire country’s continued economic recovery since the war's end in 2009.Our Ceylon tea comes from Amba Estate, a small tea garden and organic farm nestled at 3,300 feet, high above the Ravanna-Ella waterfalls in