A2 Local… Excursion: The Land of Oz, or Tea in Northern Lower Peninsular Michigan 30 Jun 201527 Aug 2016 Last Saturday I was hurting. A mammoth storm had struck mid-Michigan and my cluster headache/nausea/fried senses were nearly incapacitating me. I had to escape. Thanks to my migraine, a long-lost…
Eli Tea… Traverse City Cherry ~ Eli 19 Jun 201514 Dec 2015 Although in most places in North America, it would easily be considered "iced tea season", I had held off reviewing any actual iced teas for quite a while. I don't…
88%… Nepal Green ~ Eli 9 Jun 201514 Dec 2015 I'd love to support Nepal in any way I can... but with limited funds and no chance of really volunteering to rebuild homes or pack planes with aid packages, I'm…
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…
92%… Hawaiian Black Cliff ~ Eli Tea 22 Apr 20158 Apr 2017 The last time I stopped in to Eli Tea I had the pleasure of meeting and discussing tea with the owner, Elias Majid. He's extremely knowledgable, having come to tea…
88%… Earl Grey ~ Eli & Tetsubin Rust 13 Apr 201520 Dec 2015 I haven't been brewing with my tetsubin (if you aren't familiar with cast iron tea pots check out this previous post before reading today's) in a while and when i went to…
86%… Steamed Green Darjeeling ~ Eli Tea 3 Apr 201520 Dec 2015 So it appears the title formatting poll ended in a tie: one vote for the tilde and one vote for the parenthesis. >.> Putting aside the disheartening lack of participation for…
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…
Black… Excursion: Eli Tea & Nilgiri Glendale 22 Mar 201520 Dec 2015 Yesterday morning before dawn my screwball "misadventure" gene rage activated for whatever reason. I started searching every town I knew how to get into and out of in Michigan (and…
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