A2 Local… Tai Ping Hou Kui ~ TeaVana 29 Jul 201430 Jan 2016 Something about today feels restorative and auspicious (it feels like Autumn ;), so I thought I'd indulge in one of my 11 remaining TeaVana Forbidden Kingdom set teas (I gave…
A2 Local… Transporting Organic Green with Coconut ~ Harney & Sons 14 Jul 201430 Jan 2016 Since it's summer, and A2 Art Fair to boot (...dies), I thought I'd continue with the recent trend of reviewing iced teas. This time I was highly skeptical before I…
A2 Local… Liu An Gua Pian (Imperial Reserve) ~ TeaVana 27 Jun 201430 Jan 2016 I admit, I feel sad when I see the words "Imperial Reserve" as the suffix to the name of a product that's widely available in retail stores all over the…
Black… Inti Zen continued 22 Jun 201420 Dec 2015 Last week i wrote about Inti Zen's Patagonia Bee, which was a fairly intense honey tea. This week i thought i'd try one or two of the other international teas…
Black… Three Numi Teas 20 Jun 201421 Dec 2015 Today I'm attending the Kids Read Comics unconference, part of the Ann Arbor Book Fest. Someone was nice enough to open a Numi tea sampler for attendees so between panels…
Green… Matcha Love ~ Itoen 2 Jun 201421 Dec 2015 A while back I wrote about my fondness for canned green tea. Yesterday I discovered a new species that can be got State-side. Itoen, better known for their bottled green…
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… 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…
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… Pomegranate Mojito ~ Maya 18 Apr 201421 Dec 2015 Some local coffee shops in my area have really done an incredible job of locating little-known quality teas, of which I am immensely grateful. Although they have since changed their…
Green… Trilogy ~ G.T.’s Kombucha 15 Apr 201421 Dec 2015 Although still fairly unknown in the West, kombucha, or bottle-fermented tea has taken off in the health foods industry. I first discovered it in 2008 when the Japanese wife of…
Green… Itoen Bagged Maccha/Sencha Blend 26 Mar 201421 Dec 2015 Although no one spells it this way, maccha is really the correct transliteration using today's standard Hepburn romanisation method. It's a bit like no one who doesn't study Japanese in…
選別 parting.gifts 