Here's Hoping Traveling Teabox Round Five (US only) CLOSED
The box was sent yesterday and should be there Wednesday. Shipping was $12.35 at 7lbs 7.8 ounces from KY to IL; I shipped from a USPS kiosk at my local post office.
Teas I sampled:
1. Golden Monkey – Art of Tea
2. Royal Folden Yunnan – Fusion Teas (finished sample)
3. Gong Fu Black – Zhi
4. Wuling Mt. Black – Teasource
5. Raspberry – MarketSpice (finished sample)
6. Lemon Drop – Capital Tea (finished sample)
7. Ginger Twist – Sloane Tea
8. Spiced Summer Plum _ Della Terra Teas
9. Green Chai – Tea Table
10. Yuzu – Dammann Feres
11. Gyokuro – Fairies Finest
12. Angelina’s Scottish Caramel Puer (used entire sample)
13. Roasted Green – Den’s Tea (used entire sample)
14. First Flush Green – Den’s Tea (used entire sample)
15. Sencha – Yunomi (used entire sample)
16. Milk Ooloing – Green Terrace Tea (used entire sample)
Teas I added to the box:
1. Chunmee – Louisville Tea Company (25g)
2. Coconut Cream – David’s Tea (49g)
3. Jamais Vu – Nina’s (35g)
4. Brazillionaire – David’s Tea (41g)
5. Red Jade – Oollo Tea (20g)
6. Ruby 18 – Floating Leaves (22g)
7. Acai Berry – Octavia Tea (8g)
8. Margaret’s Hope Darjeeling – Zen Tea (20g)
9. Highland Lass – Beautiful Taiwan Tea Company (11g)
10. Ruby Red – Beautiful Taiwan Tea Company (9g)
11. Red Pearls – Silk Road Tea (38g)
12. Strawberry Rose Blush – Teavana (2oz)
13. Golden Snail – Whispering Pines (12g)
14. Rivendell – Whispering Pines (23g)
15. Wuyi Big Red Robe – Verdant Tea (8g)
16. Midnight in the Garden White Puer – August Uncommon Tea (10g)
17. Love Potion #9 – The Tea Spot (9g)
FlyAwayBirdie- Can you follow me so I can get your addy? Thanks!!
Nichole – I just sent FlyAwayBirdie a message to follow you in case they don’t see your message on the thread.
Box should be arriving to Flyawaybirdie today. I’ll email you two again with the tracking info. I sent it from my kindle but I think the email was eaten :) Thanks!
Nichole – could you also make a list of what you removed and added if you get a chance? I’d appreciate it.
Sure :) I’ll look for it later tonight. I really didn’t take much out; mostly added in.
Steepster is weird. I got tea sipper’s message before thread notification. Following now.
=) thanks. I meant it though, steepster sent me your message before I got notified ofnNichole’s thread post
I got it! You guys this box is gigantic. Seriously, like a file box. I don’t think I’ve ever gotten anything quite big in the mail before. I’m glad it arrived on a Friday!
Hahaha. Ok, who was the smarty pants that decided to leave the Cocoa Manna (basically hot chocolate) in the box? Anyone mind if I toss it? The ‘best by’ date was 11/14
Go for it! That was me. (Least I’m assuming it was- since I have some of that at home.) Sorry! That wasn’t supposed to end up in there. I had help from my kiddo trying to pack the box (trying to be mom’s helper) and it seems like he may have been overzealous in helping. Thanks and sorry again!
Haha, no worries! That probably added to the weight. I had just been wondering if it had been traveling with the box for awhile because of the exp dating. It had just been floating around outside of the baggies so I assumed it got put in by mistake.
I’m sure it did. We were going thru my tea stash and he was helping me organize it. He must have thought it needed to go on a trip.
This box is shipping out tomorrow if I can make it to the post office. Below’s my subtractions/additions. Trying to bulk up the oolong bag without bulking up the box too much. =D
Sipped (1serving):
Strawberry Blush Rose (Teavana)
Margaret’s Hope (Zen tea) – sipdown!
Naturalitea Houjicha (Yunomi) – Sipdown!
Golden Snail Yunnan Black (Whispering Pines) – this was contaminated tasting – tossed
Golden Baby Cakes (Liquid Proust Teas)
Winter Berries herbal (Pennie’s)
Rivendell (Whispering Pines)
Pu’erh Frisbee (Liquid Proust)
Tossed: Expired hot chocolate mix
1 serving samples taken to taste later:
Jin Xuan (Gong fu tea)
ripe sticky tuo cha
carigane hojicha (yunomi)
fengquing ripe tribute puerh 2013 and 2006 (teavivre)
master han’s silver bud sheng (verdant)
bi luo chung (teavivre)
jasmine tuo cha
Adding (2-6 servings each)
Bubbi’s Baklava (DavidsTea)
Taiwan Jin Xuan milk oolong (Teavivre)
Taiwan Osmanthus oolong (Teavivre)
French Toast Dianhong (Liquid Proust teas)
Vanilla Green (Adagio)
Coconut Chai Latte (TeaForte)
Cocunut Mango Colada (TeaForte)
Gopaldhara China Darjeeling (Golden Tips)
Thanks, FlyAwayBirdie! (And for including some of the French Toast Dianhong that was mysteriously missing.)
Ok, so first of all, sorry for keeping the box so long!! Between a couple of planned vacations and finding out we’re moving across the country the box got a little neglected… but it’ll be back out and on its way home tomorrow!!
Sampled:
Red Pearls (Hong Zhen Zhu) – Silk Road Teas
Assam Bukhial TGFOP Second Flush – Capital Teas
French Toast Dianhong – Liquid Proust Teas
Scottish Breakfast – Beautiful Taiwan Tea Company
CTC Assam Exotic Black Tea (Blend) – Golden Tips
Taiwan Ruby 18 – Floating Leaves
Yunnan Jin Hao – Tea Source
Taiwan Jin Xuan Milk Oolong Tea (Flavored) – Teavivre
Sampled (for sipping later):
TBA
Added (2-4 servings of each):
Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire – 52 teas
Passionfruit Jasmine – Art of Tea
Black Cherry – Fusion Teas
Raspberry Lemon Tart – The Bees Teas
Creme au caramel – Banff Tea Co
Thailand Curry – Bumble Tea
Jade Mountain – 52 teas
Witches Blend – No. Six Depot
Australian Breakfast – t-bar Tea
99% Oxidized Purple Oolong – Art of Tea
Si Ji Chun – Zen Tea
Shanlinxi High Mountain Baked Oolong Lot 270 – Taiwan Tea Crafts
I may add a couple more straight teas before I send the box off… if so, I’ll update the post :)
You should have been the one to keep it the longest since you are the person who must mail it further… and it’s probably the biggest it has ever been too. :/ Hope you enjoyed some of the teas. The teas you added sound very interesting. Hope your move goes smoothly!
The teabox is now on the way back from Beelicious! So I have set up the signups for the next round: http://steepster.com/discuss/12553-heres-hoping-traveling-teabox-round-six-us-only-closed-for-signups
This gigantic box will be splitting into two new (and still huge) teaboxes with different participants! Less overwhelming but still awesome. :D Thanks everyone for keeping this going for so many rounds!!
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