95%… Hawaiian Green Reserve ~ Eli Tea 6 May 20177 May 2017 Between having much less down time to devote to writing (committees are going to be the death of me) and having 25+ vendors, each with about four examples worth…
Bubble Tea… Excursion: Eli Tea ~ Spring 2017 16 Apr 20176 May 2017 I haven't been anywhere fun in a while and work has been steam-rolling me almost everyday this semester. I really needed to break away and get outside the county…
A2 Local… Excursion: First 2016 Tea Excursion… Can you guess where? 10 Jan 201625 Sep 2016 Thank you very, very much to those of you who voted in last week's Happy 4753! poll. Your input was extremely helpful and i really appreciate it. :) People said…
94%… Nepal Jun Chiyabari ~ Eli 2 Jan 201625 Sep 2016 Coincidentally, today's review, my first post of 2016, is also my 300th blog post. Neat. ;) I'm not sure how auspicious it is, but to celebrate I decided to review…
A2 Local… Excursion: Shinola & Eli Tea (and why there is simply no hope for me) 4 Dec 201530 Jan 2016 Today i managed to discover something really awesome which lead me to inexorably, you guessed it, utterly embarrass myself in my pursuit of tea. I had recently read that Shinola…
Eli Tea… Excursion: #MichiganTeaWeek ~ An Almost Retrospective 9 Nov 201525 Sep 2016 As you can well imagine, when I heard that several Detroit tea companies were putting on a Michigan Tea Week's worth of events, I got pretty excited. Unfortunately, it was…
94%… Darjeeling Summer & Tea Mysteries ~ Eli 24 Oct 201525 Sep 2016 Frustratingly, i'm of two minds about tea mysteries. One: who doesn't love a good mystery? Two: i'm supposed to be writing as if i really know this stuff, and when…
96%… Peach White ~ Eli 26 Sep 201525 Sep 2016 (EEK~ I just published my 250th post!) Although Eli calls it Peach White, i kind of want to rename this one "Momotaro Rose". In aroma, Peach White is vociferous of rose…
91%… Three Flower Burst Tea ~ Eli 7 Sep 201531 Jan 2016 Eli's contribution to our Display Tea Week is a little more complex. It's a three flower tea consisting of Jasmine, Osmanthus and Lily. I love lily, but it doesn't tend to…
90%… White Peony ~ Eli 3 Sep 201531 Jan 2016 Pai Mutan is more or less the most popular (most produced) style of White tea. It's woody/twigginess often combines with a furry Tipped White to create a vibrant if subtle…
95%… Lapsang Souchong ~ Eli 20 Aug 201531 Jan 2016 For the longest time I've avoided writing about Lapsang Souchong. Although very popular in some places, Lapsang Souchong isn't really my cup of tea. I do enjoy the smokiness and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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