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Excursion: Light of Day Organics, Buddhism and Irritable Bowel Syndrome

2 Aug 201527 Aug 2016

So this Tea Excursion is actually a follow-up to an earlier blog this summer wherein I decided to randomly drive to Traverse City to investigate a bit of word-of-mouth about Light…

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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.…

Yunwu Xiang Special Grade ~ Fujian Tea Import & Export Co., Ltd.

13 Jul 201514 Dec 2015

There are seriously so many kinds of Green tea in China that if I somehow had access to every single one, and drank one a day, it would take something…

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Gold Oolong ~ Sweet.ology

10 Jul 201514 Dec 2015

To wrap up Oolong Appreciation Week, I thought I'd review a local (ie. A2-Ypsi) teahouse tea. There were a couple popular styles of Oolong that didn't make it onto the…

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Phoenix Mountain Dan Cong ~ TeaVana

8 Jul 201530 Jan 2016

Phoenix Mountain Dan Cong Imperial Reserve is one of TeaVana's very first teas (i think). At any rate, it's been retired. Astonishingly, it's also one of their longest lasting. I've…

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Pomegranate Oolong ~ White Lion

6 Jul 201530 Jan 2016

This week, in honor of some undeserved patience and compassion that has come my way, I've decided to theme my blog posts around Oolong (as in Ti Kuan Yin... err,…

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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…

Excursion: The Land of Oz, or Tea in Northern Lower Peninsular Michigan

30 Jun 201527 Aug 2016

Last Saturday I was hurting. A mammoth storm had struck mid-Michigan and my cluster headache/nausea/fried senses were nearly incapacitating me. I had to escape. Thanks to my migraine, a long-lost…

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Golden Dragon ~ TeaVana

30 Jun 201530 Jan 2016

Golden Dragon is TeaVana's first ever Yellow tea. Yellow tea has yet to take off in the West, but more specifically it's basically just too rare to import without an…

Pineapple Orange Guava Iced Tea ~ Republic of Tea

26 Jun 201514 Dec 2015

I bought this iced tea on sale near the end of last summer at Plum Market. Although I posted a review last year (among a great many other iced tea…

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Jeju Island Green ~ TeaVana

23 Jun 201530 Jan 2016

Since Jeju Island Green is a TeaVana tea, I thought it only fitting that I brew it in my TeaVana Perfect T-maker. Ordinarily I would brew an astringent fine Green…

Excursion: Tea Equipage for the Forty-Eighth Century

21 Jun 201530 Jan 2016

If you thought today's post was going to involve science fiction, it's actually quite the opposite. Believe it or do not, but in actuality we're currently celebrating the 48th Century of…

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Nepal Ilam Estate ~ Crazy Wisdom Tea Room

18 Jun 201514 Dec 2015

FBOP. That is to say, Flowering Broken Orange Pekoe. Ha. I bet you're getting pretty good at decoding these tea rating codes. ;} FBOP is what I'd call a lower-refinement…

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Nepal Shangri Lade ~ TeaHaus

14 Jun 201514 Dec 2015

Amazingly, this White tea brews out into the aroma of a Nepal tippy golden Black. I suppose it's not all that surprising though considering it's the exact same tea (grown…

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White Christmas ~ TeaGschwendner

7 Jun 201530 Jan 2016

Easily the worst part about reviewing tea is the need to toss out things I really enjoy. As things stand I have quite the challenge in finding room for the…