94%… Kuki-cha Twig Tea ~ Light of Day Organics 28 Jul 201513 Dec 2015 Of the four Light of Day Organics teas that I brought home during this last trip, I believe I chose Kuki-cha Twig Tea both because it was packaged as limited…
92%… Pan Long Yin Hao ~ Upton 25 Jul 201513 Dec 2015 A gorgeous hand-rolled bud only, Pan Long Yin Hao is a highly regarded tea of Zhejiang. Literally translated, Pan Long Yin Hao means "Curled Dragon Silver Tips". Zhejiang is known…
96%… 100 Monkeys ~ Eli 23 Jul 201513 Dec 2015 Seriously one of the most dusty/filamented teas I've come across, 100 Monkeys Loose Leaf is utterly gorgeous. During brewing, all these itty-bitty particles do a majestic dance. The result is…
Fruit… Marino Water and Tea Infuser by Grosche 19 Jul 201513 Dec 2015 200th blog post achievement unlocked. xD I probably should have visited the Grosche.ca website before testing this infuser mug. Not having a good iced tea mug, I was intrigued by…
96%… 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.…
89%… Montana Gold ~ TeaSource 17 Jul 201513 Dec 2015 Although I rarely spend money on Rooibos tisanes anymore, I gripped this one when I visited the Grand Rapids Coffee Roasters a couple months back. It has a terrific scent.…
A2 Local… 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…
88%… Kenyan Safari ~ Eli 11 Jul 201514 Dec 2015 The biggest difficulty in brewing White tea is coaxing it into sinking. White tea has so much surface area and so little weight that it immediately floats when water is…
89%… 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…
90%… Zhang Ping Shui Hsian ~ Upton 9 Jul 201514 Dec 2015 I only bought a few Oolongs from last month's batch purchase from Upton, but the ones I did get sounded pretty stellar. The funny bothersome thing about Shui Hsian is the…
80%… 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…
92%… Crab Leg ~ Goldfish 7 Jul 201514 Dec 2015 Traditionally called "Hairy Crab" (Mao Xie), this Anxi (Fujian) cultivar Oolong is very odd-looking. Mao Xie's serrated edges and spiny little hairs gifted it the name hairy crab (though Goldfish…
84%… 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,…
91%… Organic China Green ~ Eli 4 Jul 201514 Dec 2015 Biscuity! I finally get what this confounding tea adjective refers to: the aroma of freshly baked biscuits... Okay, maybe not. Well, in addition to biscuits, this unknown provenance Green has…
90%… 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…
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