Good product for tea

Good product for tea  Read Less

This is a review of the 12 oz Espro Stainless Steel travel press with tea filter.This is an amazing tea press. I love tea and h...  Read More

This is a review of the 12 oz Espro Stainless Steel travel press with tea filter.This is an amazing tea press. I love tea and have tried all sorts of ways of making it. A tea ball allows you to control the length of time you let tea leaves steep but then you have a dripping tea ball to deal with. Same with the a mesh basket. On the go, dripping things are not so practical.The Espro is like a French coffee press but has a slightly different design. Instead of a single screen to push the coffee grounds (tea leaves) to the bottom, where they remain immersed in liquid and continue to add flavor/bitterness to your drink, the filter is vertical and the bottom of the press is solid. The liquid come up around the bottom gasket through small slits, is forced through the filter by the pressure and an upper gasket that prevents the liquid from going around it. The drink is thus almost perfectly isolated from the tea leaves, so that once the plunger is pressed, it doesn't continue to steep. The result is amazing tea in an insulated spill proof cup that tastes great for a very long time. It takes a bout half an hour or more before you can start to notice some over-steeping occur. It is a far cry from what a regular French press does.The mug is vacuum insulated and keeps the tea nice and hot. Even eight hours later the tea was warmish, not cold, and was only slightly bitter, but still drinkable.The mug has a 12 oz capacity with the removable tea filter installed, 15 oz without it. It also has a screw-on spill proof lid that can be used to seal the cup once you depress the plunger. Without the spill proof lid--you can't drink with it on--the cup is most definitely spillable but the high-walled top rim helps to deter splashing and spillage.Overall this is a really nice travel mug for tea lovers. It lets you brew and go and enjoy your hot perfectly steeped tea for a lengthy time afterwards.  Read Less