93%… Yellow Mountain Mao Feng (or, What’s in a Tea Name…) ~ Goldfish 12 May 201520 Dec 2015 Calling a tea a 'Yellow Mountain Mao Feng' is a fairly noncommittal method of naming. There are approximately 10,000 individual Chinese Green teas (out of almost 20,000 total kinds of tea).…
85%… Silver Yin Zhen Pearls ~ TeaVana 29 Apr 201530 Jan 2016 I've been keeping my eyes peeled for the past couple of years for any sight of the handful of Yellow teas in the West. So far, nothing. I'm thinking it's…
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…
Herbal… Lady Cora’s Evening Tea ~ Republic of Tea 24 Apr 201520 Dec 2015 I laughed out loud when I first heard that Masterpiece Classics and Carnival films were teaming up with a tea company to offer a few Downton Abbey-themed teas. "Limited Edition.…
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…
A2 Local… Excursion: Tea Forté & Blueberry Merlot 21 Apr 201520 Dec 2015 On Saturday I had the pleasure to meet a representative from Tea Forté for a demonstration tasting they were doing at Plum Market here in Ann Arbor. I was pretty excited…
A2 Local… Strawberry Bamboo ~ TeaGschwendner 17 Apr 201520 Dec 2015 I just realized I haven't reviewed a TeaHaus tea in awhile. For the third and last test to see if my tetsubin still has what it takes, I decided to…
76%… Cinnamon Orange Spice Green ~ Tea Temptations 15 Apr 201520 Dec 2015 I'm kind of ambivalent when it comes to tisanes. Obviously most people think of them as legit tea and tea shops who know their stuff have a 1/4 of their menu…
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…
A2 Local… Excursion: Unity Vibration, the Triple Goddess Tasting Room & Strawberry Kombucha 5 Apr 201520 Dec 2015 I'm thinking of making "Tea Excursions" a weekly blog event. The only issue is, in reality they're too few and far in between and it's more likely coincidence that I've…
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…
87%… Island Green ~ Charleston 1 Apr 201520 Dec 2015 I've previously reviewed one other example of Charleston's all-American grown tea, so I was excited when I was given the chance to snatch up another variety of their rare tea…
77%… Meng Song Green Tuocha ~ PurePuer 30 Mar 201520 Dec 2015 During my last tea excursion to TranquiliTea, I found this fascinating Chinese Tuocha made from Green rather than Pu-erh tea. Now I know some of you who love to fight…
A2 Local… Pumpkin Spice Brulée ~ ChocolaTea 28 Mar 201530 Jan 2016 I continue to encounter friends and acquaintances that love tea, and the extent of their tea knowledge derives solely from two or three things they've tried at TeaVana. Obviously such…
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…
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