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1. 01 The process · 9 Jun 2026 Rooibos Sweats in Heaps for 10 to 14 Hours Before Sun-Drying How a cut rooibos branch becomes tea: bruised in the cutter, left to sweat in watered heaps for 10 to 14 hours at 34 to 38 degrees Celsius, then dried in the sun.
2. 02 The process · 22 Apr 2026 How Rooibos Is Graded, and Why a Finer Cut Tastes Stronger Every batch of rooibos is graded on cut, colour, and aroma before it becomes a teabag, a loose-leaf tin, or an extract. Here is what Superior, Choice, and Standard grade actually describe, and why a finer cut tastes stronger while a coarser one tastes sweeter.
3. 03 The process · 13 Dec 2025 The Cut That Used to Take All Day Cutting a rooibos harvest into tea once meant an axe and an entire day's work by hand. Here is how that job passed from a worker's own arm, to one family's private farms, to a single government board that owned the only legal cutting operation in the country, and finally, only in the last two decades, to the growers themselves.
4. 04 The process How Rooibos Is Processed How a cut branch becomes tea, from the fermentation heap and the drying yard to grading, the food-safety step every batch clears, the weed that has to be kept out, and the separate path that ends in an extract.