1271 Tasting Notes
Sip down! (by my roommate)
Successfully converted roommate to teas – mostly jasmine greens, roasted mate, pu’er and blacks. Another win for Team Tea!
Go Team Tea!
EDIT: Oh boy, I think he got tea drunk. At first it was “Wow, there’s something happening to my head” to “Woooo I love tea!’
Now picture it being said by a 6’4” 220lb guy waving around a small mug dancing around.
600th tasting note. Also, 90 Oolong Owl blog entries! Crazy!
After some detective work, I was able to figure out what type of tuocha is this is as there is no english on the packaging. That and I was searching ebay for sheng tuochas and came across the brand! I got this tuocha from Meeka at our Steepster meet!
First few infusions are a mix of a sweet on the teeth chrysanthemum (why do I always need to google to spell that?) with the ripe pu’er earth.
Later infusions the floral gets sweeter over the pu’er. Pretty nice!
Last weekend I posted a blog entry of me trying my first tuocha, before I figured out what type it was! http://oolongowl.wordpress.com/2013/05/04/oolong-owls-first-tuocha/
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Sexy sexy chai! The combination of the romantic, soothing floral and spice in this is totally fab!
What impressed me the most in this blend was the lavender. Steep City just added enough to give you a nice smooth talking calming effect without making the blend tasting like soap (or lotion, whatever one would associate lavender with).
Full review on my blog, the Oolong Owl http://oolongowl.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/sexy-chai-from-steep-city-teas-tea-review/
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WAHHGGAAH wake up! I’ve been up for 3 hours and have done nothing super constructive. Moreso zoning out on the computer. I had some mystery oolong this morning, but time to switch to something with more punch!
Apricot Guayusa! Steeped with a cinnamon stick! Arg, I have so many cinnamon sticks! Since my husband and I like to cook, people gave us lots of “Spice Sets” (mostly from Penzeys Spices, good stuff!) for wedding and christmas gifts. Not sure why, but each set came with a huge pile of cinnamon sticks. I have limited spice rack room, so I need to use these!
Very tasty! The apricot has lots of body, the guayusa is grassy creamy sweet, and the cinnamon stick adds a bit of spice. Yum! Waking up finally – now I can get some crocheting, blogging and cleaning done!
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I received a sample of this tea from ToiToi at our Steepster meetup! TY!
I prepared this iced. Actually, this is a herbal I would of passed on as I prefer berry herbals, but the flavor is pretty nice and strong. It’s got a lot of hibiscus in it so it’s really red! However, sweetened I got lots of pineapple flavor with an orange flavor. The aftertaste is a really nice tropical + mandarin orange. Yum! This would be really good with fresh orange slices added to the iced tea!
Once I’m done my tea, I will tiger balm myself. Elbow sore from brazilian jiujitsu.
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Sip down? WAHHHHH!
Okay, that bike ride I did earlier killed my legs. It feels like I’m walking with noodle legs! I wanted something sweet, but decided on some gaiwan time while I cleaned the kitchen (but secretly waiting for the mailman who has my tea order).
Yum, very clean, light vegetal and buttery! I’ll have to buy more! The dredges of this tea was very fuzzy! Fuzzy dragon feelers! /hug
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Phatty cake! What a great pu’er! The highlights of this tea is it is easy to drink, full flavored, bold with notes of earth, chocolate, wild mushroom, spice, raisin, sweet, smoke, and mineral, all developing and changing with further infusions.
I should really buy this cake, I made another order recently for some stuff on sale and pass on the cake. Next order then! I had a really good experience with Mandala teas so I’ll be ordering again for sure!
To read my full review aka Oolong Owl’s pu’er tea drunk party time, check out the blog entry http://oolongowl.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/mandala-phatty-cake-from-mandala-tea-tea-review/
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The Phatty cake is just amazing, isn’t it? And Mandala’s releasing a sequel in the soontime. I can’t wait.
And I love love your blog. Your owls are adorable.
thanks! I’m going to buy the sequel for sure! I didn’t buy phatty cake with my first order as I heard about the sequel, and figure I’ll be able to wait for the new one, hopefully.
I loved this too
Yahoo!!! We have good news about the “Phatty Cake: The Sequel” – all of the loose material made it to the pressing factory and was sifted, blended and pressed this last week!! The addition of the grade 3 leaf to this will make for more complexity. We are pumped! Thanks for the review, my friend! Time for some thrash metal and more pu’er :)
Phew, done all my errands for the day! Worst was biking up a freaking hill, with a flat tire, hoping it doesn’t start to rain. Well, my cardio is done for the day! Phew!
I had The Persimmon Tree’s Coconut creme cold steeping and ready to drink upon my return, yay! Very tasty, refreshing, coconut sweet and floral!
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Sip down! Yeh!!!
Had a weird day so far. After my first cup of tea, I was about to make something stronger, but I had to go out for lunch. Had sushi and drank some genmaicha that was more rice and popcorn than tea. Finally home for a bit to have tea! yay!
Nice, tangy strawberry and creamy tea! yum! Now off to get ready for jiujitsu – there’s a special memorial and open mat tonight, as one of our black belts passed away last week.
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Hmmmmm, I’m looking for a good strawberry tea.
This one is good and so is Lupicia’s Strawberry and Vanilla. Lupicia’s Champagne Rose is also another good one. Those 3 are all pretty candy tasting. A good less candy tasting strawberry would be Butiki’s Strawberry Oolong.
Thanks! I have yet to try a Lupicia order! Might be soon.
I haven’t had this tea for awhile, and I just have a little left!
I went a little heavy on the leaf and Yummm! So creamy and silky! However, I’m really sleepy still, I think I need to switch to something stronger!
Wooo! One of us! One of us!
He sounds like my brother! He’s a 6’ 1" big guy who would definitely say things like that. lol! :-)