94%… Golden Sail 2003 ~ Goldfish Tea 29 Dec 201530 Jan 2016 I've actually previously reviewed Golden Sail a year and a half ago as part of a Tea Excursion to Goldfish, back before that was actually a feature on this blog.…
Eli Tea… Excursion: #MichiganTeaWeek ~ An Almost Retrospective 9 Nov 201525 Sep 2016 As you can well imagine, when I heard that several Detroit tea companies were putting on a Michigan Tea Week's worth of events, I got pretty excited. Unfortunately, it was…
94%… Anji White ~ Goldfish Tea 5 Nov 201525 Sep 2016 Anji White, also known as Anji Bai Cha (安吉白茶), is a comparatively rare high grown Chinese Green cultivar. Although called Anji White, Anji Bai Cha is actually a Green (no doubt…
92%… Wild Lover ~ Goldfish 10 Sep 201531 Jan 2016 Definitely a better named tea than some things I've seen this week. Wild Lover may be the best at unfurling among this week's Display Teas. In aroma, the teapot smells a bit…
92%… Crab Leg ~ Goldfish 7 Jul 201514 Dec 2015 Traditionally called "Hairy Crab" (Mao Xie), this Anxi (Fujian) cultivar Oolong is very odd-looking. Mao Xie's serrated edges and spiny little hairs gifted it the name hairy crab (though Goldfish…
87%… Nepalese Golden Tips ~ Goldfish Tea 10 Jun 201514 Dec 2015 I don't know the exactly location within Nepal where this specific tea was raised, so I'll be comparing it to a known tea, the finest quality Everest Hand-Rolled Tip from…
93%… Gold Screw Jasmine ~ Goldfish 1 Jun 201514 Dec 2015 There is enormous proportion of the Chinese Green tea industry dedicated to scented teas. Of those several hundred varieties, jasmine makes up the greatest percentage by far. Today I'm drinking Goldfish's…
A2 Local… Loose Pu’er 2004 24 Feb 201520 Dec 2015 Among the many reasons why Goldfish is my favorite tea house in Michigan, there's the fact that (to my knowledge) they're unique in the state in actually selling their pu-erh…
China… Scarlet Robe 21 Jan 201520 Dec 2015 Last week we experienced subzero temperatures and this week we're being inundated with snow, ice and slush to the point where I put my car in the ditch twice yesterday.…
A2 Local… Great Green Monkey 4 Jan 201520 Dec 2015 There's ice on the ground and sleet in the sky! Winter is finally upon us (though not quite as dreadfully frigid, break-into-song, snowman-building, Snow Queen given as I might wish).…
Anhui (安徽)… Sparrow’s Tongue ~ Goldfish 20 Aug 201420 Dec 2015 Now that our weather feels a lot more like Autumn (though it's still August) I thought it'd be the most auspicious time to switch gears and return to loose leaf…
Black… Excursion: Goldfish – on the cheap 6 Jul 201420 Dec 2015 The oxymoron in the title of this post notwithstanding, I did have a terrific early morning adventure to Royal Oak's Goldfish Tea on Saturday. I'd been to Goldfish once before…
Black… Yunnan Pure Gold ~ Goldfish 28 Apr 201421 Dec 2015 In addition to being one the best smelling tea I've ever brewed, unbrewed Goldfish Tea's Yunnan Pure Gold astounds in the shape of a beautiful rust colored perfectly twisted tea…