A2 Local… Great Green Monkey 4 Jan 201520 Dec 2015 There's ice on the ground and sleet in the sky! Winter is finally upon us (though not quite as dreadfully frigid, break-into-song, snowman-building, Snow Queen given as I might wish).…
A2 Local… Formosa Dark Pearl, Lemon Basil and Asatsuyu 23 Dec 201420 Dec 2015 Yes, it's the holiday season, but I'm amusingly strapped for cash. I haven't done much in the way tea shopping in a while, so I'm crossing my fingers for the…
A2 Local… Japan Kabusecha 13 Dec 201420 Dec 2015 Tonight I'm celebrating my last day living in Washtenaw County (after 5 1/2 years) by visiting a few of my favorite tea houses. To start off, I hit up Cafe…
Green… Shizuoka Sencha 4 Dec 201420 Dec 2015 To contrast the nearly-indistinguishable-from-real-sencha I recently reviewed, today I thought I'd touch on the qualities of an authentic sencha. Takaokaya isn't a brand I've spent much money on, even during…
Green… Minuman Teh Hijau Jepang 30 Nov 201420 Dec 2015 Occasionally I've run across iced teas produced by the Pokka company. I didn't realize this before, but Pokka is a Singaporean company, which means today's post is my first review…
A2 Local… Organic Ancient Snow Sprout ~ Great Lakes Tea & Spice Co. 12 Nov 201420 Dec 2015 I have mentioned before how much I love Glen Arbor's Great Lakes Tea & Spice Co. and lament the loss of their Bloomfield Hills kiosk, but it doesn't seem like…
Black… Caramel Black ~ Republic of Tea 7 Nov 201420 Dec 2015 As much as I love caramel, i don't think i've ever really had something i'd use as a rubric from which to measure all other caramels against (an Ultimate Caramel…
Green… cucumber mint ~ Tea Forté 5 Nov 201420 Dec 2015 Today I'm trying a new tea vendor that although I'd known about them for a while now, I'd hesitated to spend money on. Tea forté is a large online tea…
Anhui (安徽)… No.39 – Fez ~ Steven Smith 3 Nov 201420 Dec 2015 It's taken some doing, but I've managed to track down a few new vendors I haven't written about yet for this week. Today I'm drinking Steven Smith's Blend No.39 -…
Eden… Organic Mint Sencha ~ Eden 30 Sep 201420 Dec 2015 I'm thinking this the first time I've tried tea from the Eden Foods company, but their kukicha packaging on their website looks familiar, so I may be wrong. I am…
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…
Green… Oishii Ocha ~ Sangaria 27 Aug 201420 Dec 2015 Before i get into today's review i thought i'd share a painfully amusing anecdote of my life experience of the last 12 hours. After driving home last night around midnight,…
Green… Shincha – First Harvest ~ Itoen 26 Aug 201420 Dec 2015 I actually believe this is the eighth iteration of my blog (Happiness Buh-rometers I-VII are archived and hopefully I'll never need to look at them again). I've tried seven other…
Anhui (安徽)… Sparrow’s Tongue ~ Goldfish 20 Aug 201420 Dec 2015 Now that our weather feels a lot more like Autumn (though it's still August) I thought it'd be the most auspicious time to switch gears and return to loose leaf…
Green… green + white ~ Itoen 13 Aug 201420 Dec 2015 Nope, i'm not returning to my days as a Spartan. Rather today's post is courtesy of Teas' Tea (a subsidiary of Itoen) Unsweetened green + white bottled iced tea. I've…
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