August 2016

Verdant Tea: Yunnan White Jasmine

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This is part of my Sample Demolition: Verdant Tea series. By far, this was one of my favorite teas that Verdant Tea has to offer and the bag I bought in January was hands down the best jasmine I've ever had.

Verdant Tea: Old Tree Shui Xian

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This is part of my Sample Demolition: Verdant Tea series. This is the last of my samples from Verdant Tea. The remaining teas are all in 25g quantities and haunting my nightmares... that is a lot of one tea to get

What-Cha: Australia Arakai Spring Green Tea

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Even though I still have more Verdant Tea stuffs to go through, I decided to break into this tea. It's been calling my name since it is a 5g sample and a Japanese varietal processed like a Taiwanese oolong. Sounds amazing,

Hojo Tea: Gu Shu Yinzhen

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I can't tell you how excited I have been to try this tea. I've had it sitting around for a while, but as it's been in a sealed package I doubt there has been any significant aging. The description of this

Tiesta Tea: Lean Green Machine

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I was at the store the other day and laid my eyes on a few different teas. I had seen them before and never bought them. They were vastly over priced. Today, they were on sale 3/$10. So I thought, why

How much tea do you drink in a day?

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Believe it or not, most days I only drink one tea, occasionally two. I may plan on drinking more than one, but that almost never works out. Two is workable, but three? Nah. My typical gong fu set up Aside that,

Ito En: Unsweetened Matcha Love

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After trying Ito En's Oi Ocha: Unsweetened Green Tea for the first time in years I didn't like it very much. It was very bland and bitter (I still want to get my hands on their dark Oi Ocha though). I'm

Verdant Tea: 30 Year Aged Tie Guan Yin

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This is part of my Sample Demolition: Verdant Tea series. Dry leaves I have so much of this tea. I have 50g of unopened leaf and another 15g of open leaf after this, freshly opened when a friend came over for

Ito En: Oi Ocha Unsweetened Green Tea

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Ito En has the best bottled green teas hands down. Before I was a serious tea drinker I would purchase this all the time. My supermarket used to sell all the bottled flavors that Ito En has available, but now they

Verdant Tea: Qianjiazhai 2014 Gu Hua Sheng

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This is part of my Sample Demolition: Verdant Tea series. Puerh is a fairly unexplored world to me. I've had it on a few occasions and thought it was rather pleasant. Because of the fact I have not had the pleasure

Verdant Tea: Reserve Tie Guan Yin

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This is part of my Sample Demolition: Verdant Tea series. Dry leaves I've had a lot of TieGuanYin. Far more than any other Anxi Oolong I've had the pleasure of sipping on. I've had "meh" and I've had some fantastic TGY.