A2 Local… Hibiscus Tea Soda ~ Songbird Cafe 31 May 201421 Dec 2015 Inspired by Yoshinaga Fumi's Antique Bakery I was thinking how neat it would be if there was a cafe that experimented with tea and blew people away with their concoctions.…
A2 Local… Cascara ~ Comet Coffee 30 May 201421 Dec 2015 Today I'm drinking a tea from my favorite coffee shop (but they still make fabulous tea), Comet Coffee. Comet was coincidentally the only coffee shop open when I came into…
Black… Black & Green ~ Tetley 27 May 201421 Dec 2015 Tetley's Black and Green is definitely not a tea I would have necessarily bought for myself, but it's unique enough to demand a blog post. Tetley is a subsidiary of…
China… Pu-erh Tuo Cha ~ Rishi 23 May 201421 Dec 2015 As I've probably mentioned before, my favorite variety of tea is pu-erh. A traditional form of fermented black tea hailing from Yunnan, China, pu-erh is hand or foot rolled and dried…
Black… Tejava vs. Honest Tea 20 May 20148 Apr 2017 Last night at the grocery store I struck on an idea for today's blog: comparing two bottled iced teas (just writing about one feels like a cop-out post). I'm not…
A2 Local… Hao Ya B ~ Harney & Sons 19 May 201430 Jan 2016 Hao Ya is a variety of Keemun black produced in Anhui. It's been a couple years since I sampled something that I knew came from Anhui, so this promises to…
A2 Local… South Korea Seogwang Sencha ~ TeaGschwendner 15 May 201421 Dec 2015 Although I haven't been able to verify this in English or Korean, according to TeaGschwendner, Seogwang-ri (서광) a district in the south of Jeju (Korea's biggest island on the boarder…
Bubble Tea… Chrysanthemum Pu-erh Bubble Tea ~ Chatime 12 May 201420 May 2019 Chatime's Chrysanthemum Pu-erh Bubble Tea I don’t even have to blog this. The title and image alone is enough to express how i feel right now. It's a kind of incredible i've…
Balzac… Marco Polo ~ Balzac 10 May 201421 Dec 2015 A blend of black tea, fruits and flowers, Marco Polo is a tea I found at Balzac’s Coffee Roasters (there’s a franchise inside the Toronto Reference Library where’s I’m away…
iced tea… Raspberry Nestea, or how I became allergic to caffeine 7 May 201422 Mar 2015 This beverage story actually begins in my early teens. Living in a rural community, I was easily bored and would often treat myself to Cherry Coke from the neighborhood convenience…
Black… Aged Earl Grey ~ Numi 6 May 201421 Dec 2015 One of the highest quality bagged teas I've encountered (that's affordable! and available in most specialty grocers!) is Numi. Numi has an entire line of Pu-erh teas to die for,…
A2 Local… UCC Green Tea 2 May 201421 Dec 2015 I have long believed that Japan makes the best iced tea. When i visited there in 2005, I tried a great many different iced teas from vending machines and 7/11…
A2 Local… Six Summits Oolong ~ TeaVana 1 May 201421 Dec 2015 Strangely I'm not as huge a fan of Guangzhou Milk Oolongs. Sometimes they are a fun diversion, but I usually find the creamy texture off-putting in tea (unless we're talking…
China… Coconut Pu-erh ~ Republic of Tea 30 Apr 201421 Dec 2015 Pu-erh is definitely my favorite variety of tea. "Pu'er" (普洱), is a black tea that undergoes microbial fermentation after the leaves have been dried and rolled, often into cakes known…
A2 Local… Ti Kuan Yin ~ Arbor Teas 29 Apr 201421 Dec 2015 For a few years now, Arbor Teas has been a popular choice in town (if not destination) for tea. They DO have a storefront, however, I have consistently failed to…
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