This past Tuesday I was at Swim Cafe in Chicago for an Ineeka Tea
Tasting. I think I have a new favorite tea. Ineeka Tea was founded in
2005 however the Goel family has been growing tea 1861. The family has
about 12,000 acres in India and Ineeka in Chicago, where the company
has it's headquarters, gets regular shipments to package for the
American market.

Ineeka Tea is 100%% organic and Fair Trade-certified. Ineeka Tea also
practices biodynamic agriculture, which means they are environmentally
responsible as well. At the 2006 Fancy Food Show Ineeka Tea's
Spearmint Lavender, an herbal tea, won Best Beverage.

This is a video of Shashank Goel talking about Ineeka Tea:
http://hotfortea.ning.com/video/video/show?id=1987792%%3AVideo%%3A565

Below is a list of Ineeka Teas:
Ineeka Whole Leaf Organic Tea, Balance - Chamomile, 0.79 Ounce Tin
Ingredients: 100%% Organic Chamomile Flower (Matricaria Recutita).

Ineeka Whole Leaf Organic Tea, Ingenuity - Green Limon, 1.1 Ounce Tin
Ingredients: 100%% Organic Green Tea Leaves (Camellia Sinensis), 100%%
Organic Lemongrass (Cymbopogon Citratus).

HotForTea gmail.com> wrote:

This looks a whole lot like a promotional puff piece. It really does
look sleazy when vendors post fake ads here pretending to be satisified
customers.

I will say that most of the Inkeeka products aren't tea at all. In fact,
the only actual tea of theirs that our local grocery carries is their
Darjeeling.

The Darjeeling is okay. It's a little more grassy than I would like, but
it does taste like a real Darjeeling even if it's not in the same league
as the Rohini second flush or the stuff Lochan is selling.

The silly metal boxes and overpriced bags are a problem, though, and the
goofy self-supporting bag would be fine for commercial food service use
but only fit into a limited number of cups and won't fit into a teapot.

It certainly is promotional - a search for "hotfortea" and "Ineeka"
shows that.

A request to my friends on this news group: Please consider staying away
from such fraudsters.

Rick.

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In article panix2.panix.com>,
Scott Dorsey panix.com> wrote:

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Rick and Scott,

It's unfortunate that a posting from a devout tea drinker has led you
to believe that 'hotfortea' is a "fraudster." Perhaps in the past, some
such 'fraudsters' have taken advantage of or angered you by posing as
someone they were not. As the web goes, that assuredly does happen.

As an actual employee of Ineeka, I can 110%% vouch that 'hotfortea' is
in no way, shape, or form associated with our company as a vendor or
the like. We met 'hotfortea' just recently at a tea event we were
holding at Swim Cafe. In actuality, this person is quite simply a tea
lover looking to explore the many teas out there--and is excited about
sharing a new found tea with others who may be interested.

At this tea meetup, a first for both Ineeka and 'hotfortea', we were
able to talk a bit about the company's roots--but our main focus was
about teas in general: tea plants, growing regions, the production
process, etc.

On Apr 15, 5:24 pm, imagine foodbanter.com> wrote:

On Apr 15, 6:34 pm, "Dominic T." gmail.com> wrote: