Great Canadian Tea Box Round 5! Sign ups CLOSED

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This is so exciting! Thanks for all the work Lala; organizing something like this is no small feat!

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tigress_al said

Lala handed off the box to me today (January 24)! I was rather surprised by the sheer size of the box and a little overwhelmed! Where do I even start? I got home way too late to try anything tonight (I have no idea if there are any herbals in here). I can’t wait to dig in tomorrow!

tigress_al said

Sil, can you follow me so I can message you please?

Sil select said

oopsy. totally thought i had set up everyone as a follow. fixed!

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tigress_al said

The box is on its way to Sil!

Im not sure if I’m supposed to post this or not, but if anyone is interested:

Sampled/took a sample to try later
Tropical berry oolong- Granville island
Sugar caramel oolong- Golden Moon Tea
Diamond jubilee- Murchie’s
This Keemun is BS- Liquid Proust Teas
Oolberry- Liquid Proust Teas
Pu’erh Candy- Liquid Proust Teas
Silver Jasmine- Liquid Proust Teas
Fake Mead- Liquid Proust Teas
Heavenly Peach- Enchanted Teacup
Browncoat Genmaicha- 52teas
Ginger peach decaf- Zen Tea

Finished/kept
Noble Mark- Mandala
Imperial golden needle yunnan black- Yunnan Sourcing
Milk oolong- Simple Loose Leaf
Autumn 2014 High Mountain Red Ai Lao Mountain Black- Yunnan Sourcing
Chocolate Truffle- Tea Desire

Added
Creamy Earl Grey- Cuppa’T Specialty Teas
Sea Buckthorn rooibos- Cuppa’T Specialty Teas
Peach Dream- Cuppa’T Specialty Teas
Bossa Nova- Zen Tea
Silver Jasmine Needle- Teavivre
Organic superfine Dragonwell- Teavivre
Glazed Donut- 52teas
Yellow Buds- Mandala Tea

I wanted to add more but the box was so full. I had to re-pack it several times!

Lala said

Hope you enjoyed the box. I am glad you got to participate in this round :)

Thanks for typing out your tasting and adding choices, tigress_al.
I find it interesting to see what teas appeal to people and what teas people are adding to enrich the box.

Also, I like this cross-Canada list of teas. Cool. (Of course, not all Canadian but still.)

tigress_al said

Thanks again for organizing Lala!
Evol Ving Ness- I agree, I will enjoy watching to see what everyone else tries!

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nycoma said

how do these ttb work?

Lala said

Essentially, you get signed up for a box. Then whomever either currently has the box, or creates the box, sends out to the first person. That person drinks some tea. Replaces the amount of tea they took with some of their own teas, then sends it to the next person, and so on.

nycoma said

cool, may have to try this one of these times

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Sil select said

The box has landed, here’s hoping i have a chance to take a look at it on saturday or sunday!

Lala said

Enjoy!!

tigress_al said

I hope everything arrived in good shape! Have fun

Sil select said

tape on the inside flaps of the box ended up sticking to bags in the box so when i opened it, a number of bags were ripped open. I’ll sort it out tomorrow and transfer things to other bags.

tigress_al said

Oh no I’m so sorry :( I guess I didn’t do a very good job packing it up. I didn’t want it to pop open while in transit. I should have put something over top. I hope not too much got ruined. Sorry everyone

Sil select said

naw it’ll be fine. a little mess to clean up, but nothing was lost entirely :) I wouldn’t have thought of it myself and that box was bulging!

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Sil select said

Folks after me, if there’s something you really want to see in the box, let me know – it’s looking quite stuffed and rather heavy, so not sure how much i’ll be able to get in to the box but was hoping to share from fancy french teas for folks who haven’t had a chance to try some.

Lala said

If you need to take some stuff out of the box to keep it a bit lighter that is ok. There is lots of tea in there.

Sil select said

Yeah going to spend some time tomorrow organizing it and possibly putting some things in to more smell proof bags to help with the journey.

Sil select said

Anyone want anything? Waiting for an update from Christina in terms of what she wants from me and how she wants to received the box but i can get this sucker moving this weekend!

shezza said

would it be possible for you to include a sample of painted desert? AU didn’t have any sample sizes of it when we ordered yesterday and I’ve been wanting to try it.

I’ll leave it to you to put lovely things in the box, Sil. And yes, please lighten the box before I ship it back out west.

Sil select said

shezza, will do or i’ll send it your way separately worse case.

shezza said

Thanks a bunch!

Hi Sil,

I just sent you a PM with a list of teas that I’m interested in.

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Sil select said

I’m guilty of this too, but one thing to consider in terms of amounts people are adding is how many people are participating in the box. If there are only 5 people maybe only put in enough for 4 servings since not everyone will want to try everything and this way there isn’t 30+ grams of every tea making it’s way around.

Lala said

Agreed.

And also try not to add more tea then you take out. The box weight should remain consistent throughout the whole round and not grow more and more as it is passed on.

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tigress_al said

Sorry if I over-stuffed, I wanted to share too much. I thought I had taken out a lot of tea but maybe not enough!…good advice for next round!

Lala said

No need to be sorry, Tigress. It was pretty stuffed when you got it. The difference being I handed it off to you versus mailing it. This is a problem in every round we have, nothing new this time around :)

Sil select said

Thanks for that Lala – wasn’t calling you out Tigress, in fact i’d argue that your servings were good :) I’m just as guilty for forgetting just how many people are in the box and overfilling some teas (i get excited and want to share!!). Just wanted an active reminder :)

tigress_al said

We all get a little excited to share :)

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Jillian said

Hey Sil if you haven’t packed the box up yet I’d like to try the following teas from your cupboard:
A&D Spring Keemun
Fauchon Caramel Salted Butter Oolong
Fauchon L’Automne
Mariage Frères American Breakfast

(BTW where did you manage to fine all the those Mariage Frères and The O Dor teas?)

Sil select said

If you can’t find the tea…go to the tea! I randomly decided to run off to Paris last year before the wedding planning took over our life. 3.5kg later i had ALL the teas from france :)

Jillian said

Damn, I’m jealous. Nice going!

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Sil select said

Box will be with Christina on Monday. One suggestion i’d make is for everyone to be a little greedy so Lala doesn’t end up with the box back at her place and the same teas in it that started PLUS extras haha. Especially since it’s largely the same people each round. :) If anyone falls in love with a tea but there are folks who haven’t tried it, maybe they can speak up and we can get the tea to them at the end? or something..i dunno. It’s pretty full lol

I tried:

oolberry, this keemun is BS, lovely, candy bar puerh, jackseedgyokuru, biluo chun ming, 2013 raw mao cha, fake mead, spa oolong, seabuckthorn, peach drea, yellow buds, browncoat genmaicha, blueberry pankcakes, gran’s spice cake and silver jasmine.

Put in:
L’automne; Spring keemun; Sam bodhi; Pehche Mignon; Feng Ming ling; Pomme; Toffee popcorn; lavender cream EG; Assam TGBOP.

I would have liked to add more but there’s no room! haha

Sil select said

Also put it in a new box as i had one that was a little less worn in.

Lala said

Hope you enjoyed the box!

Sil select said

it was fun! :)

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