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Kensington Breakfast Blend from Upton Tea Imports
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This is pretty decent, and I really love a good keemun, but this blend does not live up to the pants-kicking the phrase “best with milk” suggested. For breakfast/at school thermos teas, I like a tea that’s supposed to be drank with milk, but without the milk. It has to be STRONG. This is maybe lifting some 20lb barbells. It’s got muscles but it isn’t buff.

I am sitting in the library right now, and there’s a group of girls near me being rather noisy. For a split second I debated throwing a pencil at them, and thought of the line in Moby Dick “it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off”. Apparently I need to go to sea.

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gmathis
gmathis 2013-03-07 16:40:12 -0500

Your self control is admirable, cap’n!

Michelle Butler Hallett
Michelle Butler Hallett 2013-03-07 17:23:21 -0500

AHAHAHA! Ishmael forever!

I’m gonna look for that tea.

Claire
Claire 2013-03-07 17:43:35 -0500

Michelle – last year I wrote a pretty long paper all about Ishmael’s identity in Moby Dick. I love that book. :)

KiwiDelight
KiwiDelight 2013-03-07 17:47:22 -0500

That’s an excellent quote. I need that every time I feel like kicking someone in the pants whenever I studying in the library. Libraries. Are. Not. For. Hanging. Out. headdesk

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I mostly drink straight tea, and some of my favorites are green teas and oolongs. I almost always have some sencha and tieguanyin in my tea cupboard (and if I run out, awesome, an excuse to buy tea). I do like some flavored teas, but can’t stand really sugary stuff so if it’s very sweet I probably won’t like it. I can’t drink milk so all my reviews are of tea without milk and sugar!
I’ve been getting into puerh the last few months.

Outside of Steepster I’m an English Lit major, and will FINALLY be graduating after the Fall 2013 semester. After that I plan on applying for graduate school to obtain a Master’s in Library Science. Currently I work as a student assistant in the Archives and Special Collections department of my school’s library.
I also like reading (of course) and playing video games when I have time for them.

I’m happy to send samples to anyone in the US or Canada. Just ask. :)

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