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…
94%… Kuki-cha Twig Tea ~ Light of Day Organics 28 Jul 201513 Dec 2015 Of the four Light of Day Organics teas that I brought home during this last trip, I believe I chose Kuki-cha Twig Tea both because it was packaged as limited…
92%… Pan Long Yin Hao ~ Upton 25 Jul 201513 Dec 2015 A gorgeous hand-rolled bud only, Pan Long Yin Hao is a highly regarded tea of Zhejiang. Literally translated, Pan Long Yin Hao means "Curled Dragon Silver Tips". Zhejiang is known…
89%… Magnolia Pu・erh ~ Numi 24 Jul 201513 Dec 2015 I don't review as many bagged teas as I used to, but occasionally I do run across something that deserves mention. Although I've only tried a few Numi teas here…
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…
90%… Jasmine Green (Formerly Monkey King) ~ Numi 19 Jul 201513 Dec 2015 Jasmine Green is scented three times using a traditional Chinese jasmine scenting method. I'm excited to finally get a chance to review a tea produced this way. Numi has always…
96%… Mangalam Assam Super Premium ~ By the Pound 18 Jul 201530 Jan 2016 Yowzas! Sometimes a name like "super premium" shouldn't be ignored. After freshly brewing Mangalam Super Premium, I was uplifted by its lush, rounded high elevation woodsy aroma and perfect auburn "sunset-over-Kenya"-esque tone.…
89%… Montana Gold ~ TeaSource 17 Jul 201513 Dec 2015 Although I rarely spend money on Rooibos tisanes anymore, I gripped this one when I visited the Grand Rapids Coffee Roasters a couple months back. It has a terrific scent.…
Vendors Jocilyn’s Top 50 Rated Teas 15 Jul 201514 Dec 2015 The ranking I’ve concocted for this list is based first on average composite score (if it was reviewed recently enough) and then by percent satisfaction (I began those in March).…
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…
89%… Gold Oolong ~ Sweet.ology 10 Jul 201514 Dec 2015 To wrap up Oolong Appreciation Week, I thought I'd review a local (ie. A2-Ypsi) teahouse tea. There were a couple popular styles of Oolong that didn't make it onto the…
90%… Zhang Ping Shui Hsian ~ Upton 9 Jul 201514 Dec 2015 I only bought a few Oolongs from last month's batch purchase from Upton, but the ones I did get sounded pretty stellar. The funny bothersome thing about Shui Hsian is the…
80%… Phoenix Mountain Dan Cong ~ TeaVana 8 Jul 201530 Jan 2016 Phoenix Mountain Dan Cong Imperial Reserve is one of TeaVana's very first teas (i think). At any rate, it's been retired. Astonishingly, it's also one of their longest lasting. I've…
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