A2 Local… Kokeicha ~ By The Pound 30 Apr 20176 May 2017 This blog post brought to you by Sleep Deprivation. You have been warned. This marks my first visit to By The Pound in their new location! I didn't…
94%… #SmallBizSaturday Focus on By the Pound & Royal Gold 28 Nov 201525 Sep 2016 In my tea travels i encounter a great many small businesses: tea retailers, tea blenders and even a couple tea growers/producers. Yet, when i considered which of these many businesses…
92%… Organic Nilgiri Korakundah OP ~ By the Pound 7 Oct 201525 Sep 2016 I sometimes forget i have such a diverse and well-curated selection of teas available right here in Ann Arbor in the form of By the Pound. By the Pound helped…
93%… Ying Ming Yunnan Extra Fancy ~ By the Pound 29 Aug 201531 Jan 2016 Someone managed to beat me to reviewing this tea. I did. >.> Years ago, back before i knew what i was doing, i reviewed it on Steepster. I kind of…
92%… Ambootia Estate FTGFOP ~ By the Pound 5 Aug 201513 Dec 2015 In order that i might come to a better understanding of the subtleties that i keep being told are implicit in Darjeeling, today I'm brewing a different FTGFOP, namely Fairtraded…
96%… Mangalam Assam Super Premium ~ By the Pound 18 Jul 201530 Jan 2016 Yowzas! Sometimes a name like "super premium" shouldn't be ignored. After freshly brewing Mangalam Super Premium, I was uplifted by its lush, rounded high elevation woodsy aroma and perfect auburn "sunset-over-Kenya"-esque tone.…
90%… Bamboo Temple Yunnan ~ By the Pound 3 Jul 201530 Jan 2016 I'd like to share my Yelp review for By the Pound I wrote back in 2011, when I knew very little about tea beyond my own experiences (actually, even before…
A2 Local… Asahi Gyokuro ~ By The Pound 29 Aug 201420 Dec 2015 To round off the week(~ish) of Japanese tea reviews, I dug through many a Tupperware container in the dark with curlers threatening to fly off me this morning to bring…
A2 Local… Temi Sikkim ~ By The Pound 25 Jun 201420 Dec 2015 The Temi tea garden in Ravangla, Sikkim (a Northeastern Indian state) is one of the most revered the world over. As it is so small (440~ acres) I've only ever…
A2 Local… Zhen Qu Yunnan ~ By The Pound 16 Mar 201421 Dec 2015 The first time I brewed Zhen Qu I was in my apartment and home sick from work so chances are I didn't give it my full attention. Today, however, I'm…
Best in its Class… Jocilyn’s Top 100 29 Sep 20167 May 2017 It's been over a year since I posted my first "Top 100" tea list (although, at the time I could only scrape together a Top 50), and it feels like the…
Vendors Jocilyn’s Top 50 Rated Teas 15 Jul 201514 Dec 2015 The ranking I’ve concocted for this list is based first on average composite score (if it was reviewed recently enough) and then by percent satisfaction (I began those in March).…
Politics of Tea… July 2015 Tea Purge and the Fall of the Reign of Tupperware 12 Jul 201514 Dec 2015 Apologies. This blog will come off reading very speechy/runon/fragment happy because I'm not really awake yet. For years now (almost going on a decade) I've been using handmedown Tupperware to…
A2 Local… Jun Chiyabari Nepal 2 Feb 201520 Dec 2015 Today I'm relaxing at home (against all odds I might add; thank you ye smirking braided snow gods!) after an exhausting weekend on the road. To say that today is…
A2 Local… Ntingwe Kwazulu ~ Taylors of Harrogate 10 Oct 201420 Dec 2015 Although I don't yet have a lot of experience with it, the few Taylors of Harrogate teas that I've tried have all been pretty magical. About as traditionally British high…
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