I wouldn’t normally have any contact with those odd, restricting constructions of convenience called “tea bags,” but Mighty Leaf Tea sent us some bagged teas to sample, so I gave one a chance. Mighty Leaf Tea’s bags are a little different, in good ways. The company calls them “silken pouches” to differentiate them from those [...]
A couple of weeks ago I was given the opportunity to participate in the online Holiday Tea Tasting for T Ching and sampled three lovely teas. Additional reviews and some of the teas themselves can be found on T Ching‘s site. The three teas selected were very different from each other and complimented each other, [...]
The pre-infused, dry smell and look of Adagio Tea’s Yunnan Gold black tea did not provide me with even a hint of how wonderful this tea would be. But as the first pot of it brewed I was surprised by the most lovely caramel-like scent wafting from a few feet away. The taste is even [...]
As the country known for the genesis of coffee drinking, enhanced and fostered by a centuries-old ritualized coffee ceremony, Ethiopia is not a country I associate with tea. But the Ethiopians do grow and drink tea and when I was at Tana Market, one of the Ethiopian groceries on Cherry Street in Seattle last week [...]
I’ve been drinking the same Tippy Yunnan red tea for years now. It’s tasty, with a nice full flavor and smoky notes balanced by flowery notes, and it comes in at a price I’m willing to pay. But it’s not organic, and now that I’m breastfeeding a baby, I’m trying really hard to limit my [...]
(7:13:03 AM) BF: *blink* That’s a curiously strong cup of tea. (7:13:30 AM) BF: Weapons grade Assam. (7:13:52 AM) Me: I didn’t use a full three tsp of tea for the pot, like I usually do. (7:14:02 AM) BF: A 5 min steep? (7:14:11 AM) Me: Yep. They said four to five. (7:14:38 AM) Me: [...]
We took a break from unpacking to go to the store and get various household items, including a Rival brand electric kettle for the upstairs. It’s plastic, and doesn’t have a lot of features, but we’re on a budget. It does have some non-specific temperature control, though, so I can keep water at or below [...]
Took a nice little stroll with a friend on my lunch break today, through the University and the Avenue where we stopped at Bulldog News for a beverage. They were out of blackberry tea, so I opted for the Earl Grey on ice. I was surprised at how good it was! I don’t think I’d [...]
I have returned from home away from home, Black Rock City. I did have some tea experiences there, but they will have to wait until I get some photos processed. Upon my return, our first trip to the grocery store yielded two new teas: Republic of Tea’s Good Hope Vanilla-Rooibos (so I can quit stealing [...]
My mental tea queue was interrupted yesterday when my husband returned home from a business trip to Boston bearing gifts from Tealuxe, which is a wholesale and retail tea store in Harvard Square. He found a nice gift box with a glass mug, an infuser ball, and a 50-gram blue tin (as seen in the [...]
