A2 Local… Cascara ~ Comet Coffee 30 May 201421 Dec 2015 Today I'm drinking a tea from my favorite coffee shop (but they still make fabulous tea), Comet Coffee. Comet was coincidentally the only coffee shop open when I came into…
Bubble Tea… Chrysanthemum Pu-erh Bubble Tea ~ Chatime 12 May 201420 May 2019 Chatime's Chrysanthemum Pu-erh Bubble Tea I don’t even have to blog this. The title and image alone is enough to express how i feel right now. It's a kind of incredible i've…
Black… Aged Earl Grey ~ Numi 6 May 201421 Dec 2015 One of the highest quality bagged teas I've encountered (that's affordable! and available in most specialty grocers!) is Numi. Numi has an entire line of Pu-erh teas to die for,…
A2 Local… Six Summits Oolong ~ TeaVana 1 May 201421 Dec 2015 Strangely I'm not as huge a fan of Guangzhou Milk Oolongs. Sometimes they are a fun diversion, but I usually find the creamy texture off-putting in tea (unless we're talking…
Green… Trilogy ~ G.T.’s Kombucha 15 Apr 201421 Dec 2015 Although still fairly unknown in the West, kombucha, or bottle-fermented tea has taken off in the health foods industry. I first discovered it in 2008 when the Japanese wife of…
A2 Local… Se Chung Special ~ Frontier 11 Apr 201421 Dec 2015 Frontier Natural Products is the primary bulk food provider for Whole Foods as well as the co-ops/specialty stores in the Ann Arbor area. Since they retail tea among their bulk…
A2 Local… Lavender Dreams ~ TeaVana 27 Mar 201421 Dec 2015 So one tea that I have been drinking for years and will continue to buy is Lavender Dreams from Teavana. It's a mixed white tea, somewhat herbal and exotic, and…
Green… Itoen Bagged Maccha/Sencha Blend 26 Mar 201421 Dec 2015 Although no one spells it this way, maccha is really the correct transliteration using today's standard Hepburn romanisation method. It's a bit like no one who doesn't study Japanese in…
A2 Local… Excursion: TranquiliTea’s Harney & Sons Tea Affair 2014 24 Mar 201421 Dec 2015 ...was a no show. Although TranquiliTea did have a couple of exclusive Harney & Sons teas, including the 30th Anniversary silver needle/Golden Yunnan blend, there was no company rep in…
China… Comparing “Fine” Iced Teas ~ Rishi 22 Mar 201421 Dec 2015 I am of course well aware that putting the word "fine" in front of "iced tea" is easily laughable. The difficulty i've faced the past few years with having tea…
A2 Local… Harney Tea Affair 2014 19 Mar 201421 Dec 2015 There's no formal event I enjoy attending more than tea parties. 3rd Annual Harney Tea Affair Sunday March 23nd 12-3 at TranquiliTea 904 W Ann Arbor Trail Plymouth Township, MI…
Tea Excursions Fit and Proper 18 Mar 201421 Dec 2015 I'm not at all sure how to correctly cite such a source but, this quote comes from the Downton Abbey 2014 Desk Calendar: "Fit and Proper - Although the practice was…
China… Osmanthus Oolong ~ Goldfish 18 Mar 201421 Dec 2015 Goldfish Tea's Osmanthus Oolong is one of the most interesting Oolong's I've tried, though I'm not sure I would necessarily rank it among one of the best. The frank Ti…
A2 Local… Zhen Qu Yunnan ~ By The Pound 16 Mar 201421 Dec 2015 The first time I brewed Zhen Qu I was in my apartment and home sick from work so chances are I didn't give it my full attention. Today, however, I'm…