91%… China Keemun Finest Chuen Cha ~ TeaGschwendner 18 Dec 201420 Dec 2015 During my impromptu tea excursion celebration thingy last weekend, I managed to snag a few notables from TeaHaus. It helps that I always get caught up in conversations about tea…
A2 Local… Mystic Black & Calm 13 Dec 201420 Dec 2015 Writing a second blog for the night! For my last I stop I decided to swing by the Crazy Wisdom Tea Room (and I use the word liberally). For some…
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…
China… Aged Pu-erh Brick 7 Dec 201420 Dec 2015 In the past I've often written about my love for Pu-erh, especially as realized at Royal Oak's Goldfish tea house. To celebrate my impending move home to the country (yeah,…
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… Mojitea 2 Dec 201420 Dec 2015 If anyone is reading this blog for strictly reviews on hot tea, I promise there will be a lot of hot tea drinking this winter (including some really awesome things…
Green… Minuman Teh Hijau Jepang 30 Nov 201420 Dec 2015 Occasionally I've run across iced teas produced by the Pokka company. I didn't realize this before, but Pokka is a Singaporean company, which means today's post is my first review…
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…
A2 Local… Organic Ancient Snow Sprout ~ Great Lakes Tea & Spice Co. 12 Nov 201420 Dec 2015 I have mentioned before how much I love Glen Arbor's Great Lakes Tea & Spice Co. and lament the loss of their Bloomfield Hills kiosk, but it doesn't seem like…
China… Rare Orchid Oolong ~ The Tea Source 11 Nov 201420 Dec 2015 Today is turning out to be a very good day. The second i ripped open the brown paper satchel of Steepster's Tea Source's "Rare Orchid Oolong" my nose was assaulted with…
A2 Local… Chocolate Mint ~ Harney & Sons 10 Nov 201430 Jan 2016 This post is probably going to be either brief or late in coming or both. I'm a bit more busy this morning than I thought I'd be. Harney & Sons,…
Black… Caramel Black ~ Republic of Tea 7 Nov 201420 Dec 2015 As much as I love caramel, i don't think i've ever really had something i'd use as a rubric from which to measure all other caramels against (an Ultimate Caramel…
Green… cucumber mint ~ Tea Forté 5 Nov 201420 Dec 2015 Today I'm trying a new tea vendor that although I'd known about them for a while now, I'd hesitated to spend money on. Tea forté is a large online tea…
Anhui (安徽)… No.39 – Fez ~ Steven Smith 3 Nov 201420 Dec 2015 It's taken some doing, but I've managed to track down a few new vendors I haven't written about yet for this week. Today I'm drinking Steven Smith's Blend No.39 -…
A2 Local… SoHo ~ Harney & Sons 22 Oct 201420 Dec 2015 For one reason or another, Harney & Sons is probably the most popular loose leaf vendor in the Ann Arbor area. I don't have any real beef with Harney &…