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…
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…
Bubble Tea… Chrysanthemum Pu-erh Bubble Tea ~ Chatime 12 May 201420 May 2019 Chatime's Chrysanthemum Pu-erh Bubble Tea I don’t even have to blog this. The title and image alone is enough to express how i feel right now. It's a kind of incredible i've…
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…
iced tea… Raspberry Nestea, or how I became allergic to caffeine 7 May 201422 Mar 2015 This beverage story actually begins in my early teens. Living in a rural community, I was easily bored and would often treat myself to Cherry Coke from the neighborhood convenience…
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,…
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… Six Summits Oolong ~ TeaVana 1 May 201421 Dec 2015 Strangely I'm not as huge a fan of Guangzhou Milk Oolongs. Sometimes they are a fun diversion, but I usually find the creamy texture off-putting in tea (unless we're talking…
China… Coconut Pu-erh ~ Republic of Tea 30 Apr 201421 Dec 2015 Pu-erh is definitely my favorite variety of tea. "Pu'er" (普洱), is a black tea that undergoes microbial fermentation after the leaves have been dried and rolled, often into cakes known…
A2 Local… Ti Kuan Yin ~ Arbor Teas 29 Apr 201421 Dec 2015 For a few years now, Arbor Teas has been a popular choice in town (if not destination) for tea. They DO have a storefront, however, I have consistently failed to…
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… Quilan Oolong ~ White Lion 27 Apr 201421 Dec 2015 One of my accidental tea discoveries that's been particularly awesome is White Lion. The few things I've sampled from White Lion have all been utterly immaculate. I ran across it…
Europe (L'Europe)… Organic Oolong ~ TeaGschwendner 24 Apr 201422 Mar 2015 I was just handed a tea by a coworker who's also an avid tea drinker, so I decided to pen a blind review of it. Unfortunately however, I don't…
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…
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