94%… Sencha Saemidori Superior ~ Upton 22 Jun 201514 Dec 2015 *SWOON* I am floating somewhere between Asgard and Cloud 9. Sencha Saemidori Superior is quite simply divine. I don't think I've ever experienced tea like this, even when I was…
93%… Kyoto Sencha Rose Festival ~ Eli 25 May 201520 Dec 2015 Green tea is easily the most versatile tea. Many companies make combinations with Black thinking that contrasting the bitter flavor of the Black against an Herb or Fruit will yield…
Herbal… Soba Cha Deep Roast ~ Steepster & Tea Cataloging 27 Apr 201520 Dec 2015 I didn't do a full tea-purge this weekend, but I kind of feel like i did. Ever since I moved out of my apartment at the end of 2013, I've…
97%… Gyokuro ~ Eli 26 Mar 201529 Sep 2016 Warning, fangirl gushing ahead... After writing so many of these posts, eventually at some point if a vendor chooses to simply call their tea "gyokuro", I can't really let that…
90%… Excursion: TranquiliTea’s 4th Annual Harney Affair & Kagoshima 21 Mar 201520 Dec 2015 This morning I was tickled and honored to sample a tea that TranquiliTea brought into the store by my request. TranquiliTea sent out an email to its newsletter members a…
ChocolaTea… Kukicha Extra 26 Feb 201520 Dec 2015 The writing of this post is intentionally flowery and poetic to illustrate a point. Feel free to skip this one if you start feeling impatient. ;) On rare occasions I…
Bubble Tea… Homemade Bubble Tea 19 Feb 201520 Dec 2015 I've been kicking around this idea for some time now, but until today I had't quite perfected the recipe. My gift to you: homemade bubble tea: a DIY guide. You…
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…
Argo… green tea ginger twist ~ argo tea 14 Nov 201420 Dec 2015 During the summer months I'd focused my blogging efforts on iced teas with the thought that it was too hot for hot tea anyway so i might as well review…
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…
Black… Kouchahime Mild 185 ~ Sangaria 28 Aug 201420 Dec 2015 I can't be 100% sure without going back through all my notes but, my best guess is that Sangaria's Kochahime Mild 185 is the worst tea I've ever tasted. I've had…
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,…
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