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…
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…
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…
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,…
Black… Yunnan Pure Gold ~ Goldfish 28 Apr 201421 Dec 2015 In addition to being one the best smelling tea I've ever brewed, unbrewed Goldfish Tea's Yunnan Pure Gold astounds in the shape of a beautiful rust colored perfectly twisted tea…
A2 Local… Darjeeling ~ Ridgways of London 22 Apr 201421 Dec 2015 Amusingly paralleling last week's post on Hardly Fair Trade, today I'm drinking a Darjeeling from Ridgways of London that bares the obliquitous "fair trade" sticker. One look at their "About…
A2 Local… Diamond Jubilee ~ Harney & Sons 2 Apr 201421 Dec 2015 Diamond Jubilee - sold in Harney & Sons’ “Historic Royal Palaces” collection, Diamond Jubilee is a tea I bought to share at the office (it usually comes in a large…
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…
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