93%… Bi Lo Chun ~ Goldfish 17 Aug 201513 Dec 2015 No, I haven't forgotten about my favorite shop in Royal Oak. I have been meaning to review more Goldfish teas for a while now, but distractions kept creeping in. In…
92%… Huang Shan Mao Feng Reserve ~ TeaVana 15 Aug 201530 Jan 2016 Miraculously, I still have a few teas from my 2013 TeaVana Forbidden Kingdom gift set that I haven't touched on. Since today is the midway point of the month of…
88%… Blueberry White ~ Adagio 14 Aug 201513 Dec 2015 Full disclosure: I wrote this blog post like two weeks ago... and then promptly forgot about it. ^^;; My bad. Today I brewed tea without power. Rather, i was in…
96%… Yunnan Gold ~ Light of Day Organics 13 Aug 201513 Dec 2015 I was particularly glad to see that Light of Day Organics makes a Yunnan Gold. Over the years I've tried a great many different Twiggy and otherwise golden bud Yunnan…
92%… White Rose ~ Numi 12 Aug 201513 Dec 2015 Numi has consistently been the tea i point people to who don't have the time or interest to spend on loose leaf. Their CTC is some of the best I've…
Heart of Tea… Peach Iced Tea ~ Heart of Tea 11 Aug 201513 Dec 2015 I didn't want to let the entire summer slip by without reviewing any iced tea... but it also really wasn't something i had time or money to dwell on this…
94%… Colorado Lavender Folgate ~ Eli 10 Aug 201513 Dec 2015 99 times out of 100 lavender gives me a migraine. Usually that would be a prohibitive enough reason not to drink lavender tea. Today it isn't. Today I'm drinking Eli's Colorado…
93%… Risheehat SFTGFOP1 ~ Upton 8 Aug 201513 Dec 2015 Because I had one remaining fine Darjeeling and there's seven days in the week, rather than five, i thought i might as well give a second post to Upton (I…
91%… Mim Estate First Flush ~ Spice Merchants 7 Aug 201530 Jan 2016 I can't swear that this tea is in fact FTGFOP as it's not labeled as such (only mentioned as being a First Flush), but based on its appearance and given…
92%… Darjeeling de Triomphe First Flush ~ TeaVana 6 Aug 201530 Jan 2016 I was a bit hesitant to include a TeaVana entry into this week's theme, given its tendency to vary widely from other tea manufacturing/storage in the industry. In this case,…
92%… Ambootia Estate FTGFOP ~ By the Pound 5 Aug 201513 Dec 2015 In order that i might come to a better understanding of the subtleties that i keep being told are implicit in Darjeeling, today I'm brewing a different FTGFOP, namely Fairtraded…
91%… Darjeeling Steinthal First Flush FTGFOP1 ~ TeaGschwendner 4 Aug 201530 Jan 2016 Founded in 1852, Steinthal is the oldest real tea Estate in Darjeeling. If you have the money, Singtom Resort is a boutique resort that's on the grounds of and affiliated…
95%… Delving into Darjeeling & Margaret’s Hope FTGFOP Tippy ~ Upton 3 Aug 201513 Dec 2015 I don't think I ever really understood what set Darjeeling apart from other Indian Blacks until just recently. Thanks to Darjeeling: The Colorful History and Precarious Fate of the World's…
A2 Local… Excursion: Light of Day Organics, Buddhism and Irritable Bowel Syndrome 2 Aug 201527 Aug 2016 So this Tea Excursion is actually a follow-up to an earlier blog this summer wherein I decided to randomly drive to Traverse City to investigate a bit of word-of-mouth about Light…
91%… Ku Ding and Chinese Medicine ~ Goldfish 30 Jul 201513 Dec 2015 I'm usually pretty open to alternative medicine, but i rarely actually employ them when i should. Ku Ding is one such example. There are a great many traditional Chinese medicinal…
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