Dinosara

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Dinosara drank Earl Grey Choice by Zhi Tea

Another round two tea from the Earl Grey side-by-side tasting. I’m doing 5 at a time, each tea brewed under the same parameters: in a tea filter bag, for 3 minutes with 205°F water. I dunked the tea filters around to make sure they were getting enough water flow since I don’t usually use them.

This one is another that probably doesn’t really belong here, but I forgot that it had lavender in it until I had already portioned it out. Oh well! The lavender really makes this one stick out here, and it is, like I tasted before, very strongly lavendery, which gives the tea an herby character. As far as lavender Earls go I think this is a little too much lavender.

2011-10-29 13:54:54 -0400

205 °F / 96 °C

3 min 0 sec

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LiberTEAS 2011-10-29 16:16:03 -0400

If you like doing these side by side tastings, in my shop on Tea Trade I have a Earl Grey Sampler. :)

http://liberteas.teatra.de/store/products/earl-grey-sampler/

K S 2011-10-29 16:23:54 -0400

Appreciate your effort here! What a cool idea.

Uniquity 2011-10-29 16:25:00 -0400

So much earl grey!! : )

Dinosara 2011-10-29 16:41:08 -0400

LiberTEAS – that’s a lot of Earl Grey! Maybe for the next time. :D

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I am tea obsessed, with the stash to match. I tend to really enjoy green oolongs, Chinese blacks, and flavored teas with high quality bases, especially florals, bergamot-based teas, and chocolate teas.

I’m a grad student and in my free time I am a birder, baker, and music/movie/tv addict.

I have an Adagio Teas UtiliTEA kettle and a Tea Forté Kati cup for brewing. I also have a Chinese Ru Kiln tea set for gongfu brewing.

Here are my rating categories, FYI:
100-90: These teas are mind-blowingly good to me.
89-80: I really really like these teas and will keep most of them in the permanent collection, but they’re not quite as spectacular as the top category
79-70: Tasty teas that I enjoy, but definitely won’t rebuy when I run out.
69-65: Teas that I would probably drink again, but wouldn’t seek out. They don’t quite do it for me in one aspect or another; often just not quite my style
64-60: Teas that I don’t really enjoy all that much and wouldn’t drink another cup of.
59-50: Bleh. I usually choose not to finish the cup because life’s too short to drink tea I dislike.
49 and below: Mega yuck. This tea is just disgusting to me.